“Since 2019, Alphabet and its subsidiaries have spent more than $125 million on federal lobbying, campaign contributions, and trade associations”
Google’s CEO says privacy is at the heart of everything it does. Its lobbyists pushed to let companies keep collecting data for targeted ads even after users opt out in California, and helped gut a proposed ban on targeted ads in the Digital Services Act. That ad business earned Google nearly $60 billion in profit in 2022. Proton sells the alternative, which is why the piece ends with a pitch.