# Paid Microsoft or Google

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/paid-microsoft-or-google/19203
**Category:** General
**Tags:** software
**Created:** 2024-06-29T21:07:46Z
**Posts:** 17
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## Post 4 by @redoomed1 — 2024-06-29T21:31:21Z

> [@Eireannach](#):
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> Google **paid** products as opposed to the “free” (but paid for by allowing a profile to be built)

I highly recommend reading the following posts:

> [@Mullvad Using Gmail](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mullvad-using-gmail/16258/28):
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> Mullvad is using Google Workspace, aimed to businesses, which has totally different architecture, security and privacy policies compared to Google Mail, which is a personal product. There are lots of privacy laws in place, forced by many governments and agencies, checked frequently and audited, and also used by a lot of companies. Please educate yourselfs before attacking companies with torches and pitchforks. [https://cloud.google.com/trust-center/](https://cloud.google.com/trust-center/)[https://workspace.google.com/intl/en\_us/lear…](https://workspace.google.com/intl/en_us/learn-more/security/security-whitepaper/page-1.html)

> [@Mullvad Using Gmail](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mullvad-using-gmail/16258/21):
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> From what I’ve seen that Simplified Privacy spams a lot, in fact I’ve deleted a few of their posts on our lemmy sub because they were prolific with the blogspam posts. There isn’t really anything extraordinary about using Google Workspaces, it’s not GMail and has a entirely [different privacy policy](https://cloud.google.com/privacy) to [gmail](https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10434152?hl=en). Neither product “scan” your emails to serve you advertising. Proton uses Zendesk for their support, and that isn’t E2EE. These emails are likely not used for anything particularly sensitiv…

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