Posted on 12/27/2022 10:40:00 AM PST by ShadowAce
Oh dear. They tried to make it up on volume.
Some of the value of Alexa or GMail goes beyond direct dollars brought in. The Washington Post loses money, but its value goes beyond subscription and advertising revenue. The Dodge Viper lost money as a model, but helped restore the lustre of the entire Dodge brand.
If people aren’t using Alexa, the might get Next or iHome or whatever. It is about getting people to buy into your ecosystem. Sometimes the monetization part comes later. When Google bought YouTube, it was a very popular money loser. Not anymore.
In critiquing another writer's work I typed into my Gmail message:
"I don't want to nitpick, but..."
Within minutes I started getting ads for head lice treatments.
What's Google's Motto? "Be Evil"?
My Instagram account was hacked and there is NO customer service! Imagine that. A company worth hundreds of billions of dollars and you can’t contact a single person. All you get is an AI program to run you in circles and get know where.
Gee, take a selfie and submit it to us to get your account back! Umm, I don’t take selfies with my acct. So good luck getting it back. I conduct some business on there so that’s gone.
lol “nowhere”
One of the many reason I run my own email service for my domains, it is actually pretty easy to do
Do they care if you get hacked? NO, because now you will make another acct so now you are another customer! lol
I still have a gmail acct, but I never send anything with it. It's a remnant from earlier days and I still have that as a contact for several accounts. I'm moving off of those by attrition, rather than an active migration.
I have seen a strong correlation between my google searches and advertisements. As an experiment, I did some google searches for camping equipment on an incognito browser, the only time I searched for camping equipment. (My wife hates camping.)
Son of a gun, I never got a single ad for camping gear.
“The Dodge Viper lost money as a model, but helped restore the lustre of the entire Dodge brand.”
Wait. Dodge has lustre?
The value of Alexa is that it can listen to your subversive dinner table conversations and record them verbatim for use in future prosecutions by the DoJ. Amazon surely gets a nice subsidy in the black budget for keeping these wiretaps operational.
They don't have to. Every online retailer you buy from using your Gmail account is that much more likely to advertise with Google.
Within minutes I started getting ads for head lice treatments.
LOL! Try telling them about a pain in the ass.
It’s probably not costing Google Amazon anything material. I’d bet that some TLA is pumping funds in to enable spying.
When I got a new phone, google based, it listened to everything by default. I kept it next to my speakers. While listening to the Dan Bongino show the phone had automatically opened dozens of websites with “fact checks.” These damned phones spy whether you want it or not.
My recent experience with Comcast and HP provided more testimony to the premise that Al can never replace knowledgeable humans (versus the "tech support" on Microsoft Answers" which sends off a standard answer to a specific problem that the fix does not work for) in that field.
And Gmail would only offer to send me a text message to verify an old Gmail acct, even though it is to a landline of Comcast, which does not provide text. Nor can you change the tel. # unless you verify it via the tel. # that needs to be changed.
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