That's hardly nothing. Frankly, your data is far more valuable to them than if you were handing them cash instead.

Data is as much a currency as dollars, and if you're interacting with Google, you're paying quite a bit.

I see where you're coming from, but you're acting like we live in a world where Dual_EC_DRBG didn't happen, where the heartbeat weakness in OpenSSL wasn't overlooked for years, and where the level of outrage or disagreement doesn't need rise to a level that outweighs the pain in the ass of changing something to change something. It doesn't require the NSA (or any determined, capable organization) being supergeniuses to subvert technology or processes. It just takes the trust and misplaced confidence of a few people to assume it's far too hard for someone to do.

I was supposed to graduate from a university before getting this gig? Damn. Don't tell my boss.

When you're linking political blogs to try to refute scientific fact, you're either trolling, stupid, or so partisan that the opposition could say the sky is blue and you'd link mysideisright.com/blog proving that the color of sky is "in dispute". EIther way, those all translate to wrong. Stop being wrong.