Re: It's Google.
Its not barter its cash. Googles profits are not quoted in how many sheep, cows, and turnips they have, it is quoted in billions of dollars. Where does that profit come from the public.
I don’t use google services I have no Google account, no Android phone and don’t use Google search. But they still take my fucking data and monetarise it via targeted ads. My data and they don’t even pay me for it. I am the one paying them to use my data. They charge the ad companies to place ads targeted and non-targeted. The ad companies charge their clients who add that cost to the goods and services they sell that we the public buy.
Even if I never used the internet Google would still have their hands in my pocket because the ad cost is still on those goods and services I purchase.
Nothing is free certainly not the internet and Google are forcing me to pay even if I don’t use it.