Got some free time today to read the apis for various things, as a habit, I started with the terms of service.
The more I read these terms of service from google, the more I admire them as an absolutely evil but fair company. The terms are generally written that they retain all rights to revenue, and at least read access to your data, while letting you generally do whatever you want for free as long as you don’t make money or gain data in the process.
They also give you lots of free things, and charge you really really well on what it will get you, namely sometime later when you are dependent on the api too deeply and have lots of money to jab.
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