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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
I think Google is dangerously large and powerful, and should be avoided. CMV

Really, change my view.  I want to love Google, but it intimidates me with how much bad potential it has.  The idea that someone, somewhere, has more data on me than I'll ever know is scary.  But I admit that they have some really great things to offer.  So convince me why I should get over my paranoia of Google.
gpt
Companies only have as much information on you as you allow them to. Google does indeed store certain information on you and your internet habits, but only what you let them.  Many of the stuff they store and use by default can be disabled in your account settings.

Do you use customer cards at any stores?  They are tracking your purchasing habits and using it to manipulate you into spending more money.  Do you have a TV subscription? They are probably storing your viewing information.  Do you have a debit or credit card?  They can use the information they have on you to map out your regular movements, spending habits, etc.

Information is being gathered and stored on you in all aspects of your life and the only way to avoid it entirely is to live off the grid.  Google provides services and gathers information from your use of them to sell you or develop other products, just like everything else in your life.  There are a couple articles out there where the government has requested information from google and they have refused. If you trust everything else tracking you in your life, why refuse the access to google?