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I don't get the alarmist tone of that piece: it's very preliminary, they are consulting with interested parties, building an opt out mechanism. Oh and Apple already deployed an ide…

This has nothing to do with Google's "business model", search is about relevance and despite the practices of these sites, I'm sure you can see how their content might be relevant …

Careful, if you troll using Microsoft talking points you might be mistaken for their shil.

First of all let's not confuse the issues here, the one in question is about tagging visitors with cookies, and the one you link to is a terrible decision by a judge about the natu…

It's why the word Incognito in Chrome for iOS has an asterisk next to it: "On Chrome for iOS, due to platform limitation regular and incognito* tabs share HTML5 local storage, whic…

SELinux default policies are usually written per distribution, by their maintainers. It's widely used and peer reviewed (Fedora, Red Hat) I'd trust it over any less involved attemp…

The data seems a bit dated. RSS functionality for example had since been restored: http://searchengineland.com/google-quietly-brings-back-rss-f...

No. For the same grammatical reasons and for the more important fact that they don't sell data or information, they sell ad placement that get populated with relevant ads determine…

Ads in paid Google Apps are subject to admin control to whether enable them or not. Also technically speaking "prostitution" is a human only trait.

One: he's not just a "top guy at Google" he's Vint "I invented the internet" Cerf. Two: the headline is highly paraphrased, which I guess you know since you've read the whole thing…

Publishing a transparency report is an excellent step and it doesn't deserve this sort of comment. Government surveillance is a policy issue first and foremost, concentrating on co…

Perhaps, I doubt the change was as dramatic though, considering it's not just the app itself that underwent transformation but also browsers and the web platform as a whole. But th…

Google Sheets has changed quite a bit over those "2 to 3 years", being a web app and all, Excel hasn't. I suggest taking second glance.

It was a joke.

I try to ignore trolls but some comments make me want to self harm.

How exactly is fracturing the Internet and stopping the free flow of information will make it "stronger"? any sort of amplified indignation about the NSA is a red herring, Brazil h…