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    Jan 07, 2021 5 minutes

    Do no evil, promise

    Are all tech companies evil? Is it ever worth using a free service? The announcements that Google was killing Google Music and that Google Photos will count towards its 15GB space limit after June 2021 had me annoyed, but the announcement of Yahoo stopping free email forwarding on 1 Jan 2021 has me fuming. “Security” reasons do not stack up if they can do this in the Pro version. It looks like a cash grab.

    One view is that this is fair enough; the services cost money and therefore these loss-leading free offers were only going to last so long and I should be happy to pay. However, this fails to take into account Google’s data mining for its search business and increase of Android mobile market share because of these services, or its track record

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