On Android there's also the constant nagging to turn on GPS every time you open the app just to check the opening hours of some business. Super frustrating.
Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
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#42Looks like Apple needs to run another 1984 ad during the Superbowl.
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#43On my Pixel 2XL, I cannot set temperature to Celsius on my home and lock screen unless I allow this setting.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, a simple take it or leave it situation. There are alternatives. I don't get people getting mad because a private corp is doing something with their own software.
Can you uninstall Google Maps from an android phone? It's because that private corp is so big that it is starting to control much of the internet and devices so this is an issue very much in the public purview. It's not as simple as take it or leave it. The corp in question spends billions to insinuate itself into your life, make you dependant, eat competition, and then you can take it, but you definitely can't leave…
Yes you can easily uninstall it
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#45But google are great. This is a feature of their online service. They need all your information in order to sell it so others can search and find it.
Or something.
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#46Why are people surprised when a company that fundamentally doesn't believe in privacy does these kinds of things? Edit: quote removed -- see child comments.
You could've discovered this way back in 1998 by reading Appendix A to Larry & Sergey's Stanford paper:
>"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users"
Re: Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
#47Why are people surprised when a company that fundamentally doesn't believe in privacy does these kinds of things? Edit: quote removed -- see child comments.
You could've discovered this way back in 1998 by reading Appendix A to Larry & Sergey's Stanford paper: >"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users" http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
The early Google AdWords ads was at least fairly simple and required little tracking. I mentioned this in the essay/overview.
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#48In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don't delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with th…
Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop. Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20/20...
Perhaps because it's such verifiable information that makes it rather unique in value when you have people who are able to mathematically predict how those verified people might perform based on behavior history. If you then couple it with "spin" you end up encouraging large amounts of income to be created upon it. Much like predicting the future since you effectively are predicting the future.
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#49On Android there's also the constant nagging to turn on GPS every time you open the app just to check the opening hours of some business. Super frustrating.
The wording is also super coercive. It makes it sound as if the app doesn't work without location enabled and the options are "cancel" and "okay". Most users probably think cancel means to cancel the action they were originally attempting, but in fact the app works perfectly fine without it. It is a dark pattern, and it was probably the red flag that finally flipped me from "okay maybe they make some mistakes" to "clearly the culture and ethics of the company have changed".
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could've discovered this way back in 1998 by reading Appendix A to Larry & Sergey's Stanford paper: >"The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users" http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
The early Google AdWords ads was at least fairly simple and required little tracking. I mentioned this in the essay/overview.
You've posted about your essays dozens of times now. That's crossing the line into spamming, and other users are complaining. Please stop now.