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I’m willing to bet it’s related to this. Google docs is trying to guess something for autocomplete, similar to their gmail feature to complete your sentences.

Which means, on a privacy standpoint, whatever you’re writing and guessing, they are absolutely processing something.

We the user are the product, apparently. This is mildly creepy to me because, I do vent on google docs sometimes. And assume only I can read it..




It’s literally called a word processors, so I suppose it processes the words. I don’t have a problem with that, as long as my data is only used for purposes I have approved and to provide features I use.


How is my comment downvoted?

Top comment mentions it being grammar related, which requires processing however many written words before, to provide a possible suggestion.

Considering an “and” clause to meet all possible cases of suggestions may cause the program to crash.


I think you are probably getting downvoted because it's Google Docs, running on Google's Servers, with Google's autocomplete and grammer checkers and spell checkers and auto-templates and everything else running against it.

Of course "Google" can read your doc. That has nothing to do with "you being the product" (infact it's the opposite since free Google Docs is a loss leader for their paid GSuite product).

That doesn't mean a person is reading it.


That is a great point. Thanks for typing this out! Appreciate it.




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