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This Googler from its better days could easily take down the Mountain View Ad Company. Their days of spying on us might be over.
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Zalatix
(8,994 posts)You mean someone's more ubiquitous than them?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)That's where all their money comes from. They haven't made a dime off of Android.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)...and frankly, most of the time, I don't care either. I really don't care if anyone knows that I googled the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday at 3:32 PM (I was dealing with a chronic earworm...).
Times might grow more paranoid, but so far, most of the data being collected on me is of little use, and that which is useful (where I work, what I'm interested in, even who my friends are) isn't really that much of a secret.
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So far, the gain I get from being able to pop open a browser window and answer nearly any question I have is far greater than the risk I feel I'm taking by communicating that activity to hundreds of thousands of prospective marketeers. I'm not particularly swayed by sales pitches and I don't read the spam.