I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every time I used google assistant. This is just some of the data and I’m very sure there is even more data they have.
Today you learned a valuable lesson:
When an online service is free it generally means you’re the product.
Today companies will snoop your info even if you pay 1000s for a device.
Why wouldn’t they, obviously no one cares
It’s [current year], nobody is learning that lesson today. We’ve all known it for well over a decade now.
It’s not even online only anymore. You can’t do the setup process of Android OR Windows without connecting to the Internet, and I doubt Apple’s products are any better in that regard.