It’s really hard for me to take you seriously. You’re just poorly playing semantics to white knight for Google.
Very weird.
It’s a good deal for the individual, that’s why Gmail is popular.
Trading something of low value for something of moderate value is not what “free” means…
Say the data from me or any of my peers was worth 1/100th of a cent and we give that away… that means I am trading something of minor value for something else…
That’s literally google’s business model.
You think Gmail is free bc Google is nice?
Come on…