Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers
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#2Film at eleven.
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#3Is posting such baity non-journalism on here nowadays a way to farm karma?
This doesn't give anyone actual value, most of the things listed are common sense and if you use Google Maps, you are probably already aware of it. I'd wager that some people use Maps exactly because these features make it convenient.
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#4Vice.com - get ready to get bombarded by popups and the website randomly jumping around while you’re trying to read a click-baity numbered list of trivial facts.
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#5As a comparison, how does Here Maps fare on the "creepiness scale"?
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#6The last point (that there are alternatives but they’re all not as good) is why anti-trust action against Google/Alphabet can’t come soon enough. The acquisition of so many competitors should have been blocked by the FCC.
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#7As a comparison, how does Here Maps fare on the "creepiness scale"?
It appears they collect much of the same data, but likely less of it because of their smaller scale and inability to cross-tabulate this data with other user activity (like Google search): https://legal.here.com/en-gb/privacy/here-wego-here-applicat...
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#8To be fair, most of the time users' are consenting to this. If you disregard the opportunity to read the privacy policy and just click "I agree", you really can't be too surprised at what information you allow these apps to access.
I'd suspect mostly every human on earth is in some database somewhere, and that will become a normal facet of life. Even the second you're born a record is made, as well as the rough time of your death (I'd admit we can't exactly epoch that just yet, but maybe soon we'll have that level of accuracy).
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#9Tired of opening maps and getting a prompt to turn on 'make location bettter' every fuckingtime. Are the people working at Google that dumb? How many times do I have to decline.
Other than that, the article is one of the most clickbaity one I've read
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#10Is posting such baity non-journalism on here nowadays a way to farm karma? This doesn't give anyone actual value, most of the things listed are common sense and if you use Google Maps, you are probably already aware of it. I'd wager that some people use Maps exactly because these features make it convenient.
Yes the fact that I can check my phone in the morning for my commute and get an accurate (ish) bus time including delays is great, I can avoid a long wait for a bus at and have another cup of coffee.
Though as I live next door to a pub in my village it used to keep checking me in - google probably thinks I have a drinking problem :-)