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It's nothing.

In India Google operates one of the largest Fiber Backed project called Railwire. It's a GOI enterprise, but we can say that officals are effectively bribed to participate in data harvesting schemes and enriching a few officials and one big American company.

Google offers this company internet technology expertise in return of harvesting data from railway stations, Users of the ISP called Railwire.

Basically, they set your DNS to Google's DNS and Google captures what websites are popular in these specific regions.

You can change your DNS obviously but 90% users don't bother and it doesn't save you from deep packet inspection.

Google also harvests non Https websites and run deep packet inspection of the traffic.

Why would it provide its tech expertise for free?


No sources. Just your bias and fantasy stories.


Viscode for remote programming ftw.


Then people talk about inequality. Even in free thing like Reddit only 1% people create value because they get high from it.

Inequality comes from nature, wether it's wealth or contribution on Reddit like sites.


Small pox came from nature too. But it's effectively gone. So is the Dodo bird, etc..


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