Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry. • Hacker News Board

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by okoni » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

This is a common case of "If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.", this is what happens when you engage in careless computing and put your data on a third party remote server under their control.

Don't be careless and it won't come back and bite you.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by ctdonath » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:47 PM UTC

Good life lesson for the kid about government, and why freedom & liberty are so important.

And set her up with her own website already. Show her the power she has to not put up with such stupid limitations.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by ronaldj » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:48 PM UTC

Good thing Yahoo didn't do this in the 90's otherwise no one in my middle school class wouldn't have had an email account.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by Tangaroa » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:49 PM UTC

If Google did not collect and sell its users' personal information, they would not have to worry about a law saying they can't do that to kids.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by MichaelApproved » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:50 PM UTC

I bet the biggest thing holding Google back is that many will say they're under 13 just to take advantage of the ad restrictions and privacy protections placed on those accounts.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by pyre » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

thenextcorner wrote: post #10

This is why you should take control of your own data, and not let your data in the hands of a company. Buy your own email address, set up your own blog self hosted.

What would you suggest for comparable calendar and contact management software?

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by jodrellblank » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

they've chosen to act apparently without ever considering how their actions might affect the people who use and rely on their services.

Hyperbolic nonsense. Their consideration for multicultural, international, legal, technical, practical, and end user issues under time and effort constraints doesn't come out exactly the way you wanted it to under one edge case that you happen to hit therefore they "haven't ever considered"?

Never assign to malice what can be adequately be explained by stupidity needs a corollorary - never assign to malice or stupidity what can adequately be explained by being outside the normal patterns of a huge system.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by Cl4rity » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:53 PM UTC

tiles wrote: post #2

A similar article from this past July titled (aptly) "Google made my son cry": http://sunpig.com/martin/archives/2011/07/03/google-made-my-...

I was just about to reference this article. Same shit, different day.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by PPGualtieri » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:56 PM UTC

That's why no one should ever trust $GenericCompany$ blindly with their data without having a backup.

Re: Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.

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Post by ThePawnBreak » Sun, Dec 11, 2011, 7:58 PM UTC

artursapek wrote: post #8

RexRollman wrote: post #4

It is really sad that Google can't figure out a way for those under 13 to have accounts, provided there is a parent signing off on it. And the first comment by someone about how their child can't log onto their Chromebook anymore is particularly disturbing.

"Log onto our website, but only with your parents' permission!" died quickly a decade ago for a reason. There's virtually no way of validating that. Which is why I'm still surprised that movie and video game sites still use the faded "Enter your age to continue" screen.

How is adding a decade or two to your age when registering any less difficult to validate?