>how have we not just rip that out of the company? Because the US Gov wants it to stay alive and in business, google has so much users data collected and still counting, that no matter what, it will always be valuable to the gov.

I always get surprised when I see a tech fella is still using any google products like gmail or chrome despite the atrocity that company did (so is Facebook btw), I would understand your average user or your grandma using it, but any tech guy should abandon google as soon as they can.