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does not sell your data

Depends on how you define sell.

Advertisers pay to use the Google's collected data about people in order to better target their ads. This happens through Google's advertising channels (Doubleclick, AdWords, etc...)

Money changes hands. Personal data is involved. Sounds like selling to me.

Perhaps you should say "Google does not directly sell copies of your data," instead. But there is indeed a transaction involving personal data.



It's still a dishonest and reductive thought-terminating cliche, because it intentionally misrepresents the nature of the transaction.

Your data never leaves Google, nor can third parties acces it. Google is not selling your data. QED.




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