I'd be fine with this as long as it was opt-in rather than opt-out.
Bad move, Google.
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#102Disappointing. Facebook's decision to use people in their ads, and also automatically subscribe people to spam from Facebook Pages, has already made clicking the Like button a 'heavy' action—meaning I have to think about it before doing it, and most likely won't click nowadays. Google Plus is the same now. I used to consider handing out a quick +1 to any post I liked, or a cool site/service. But now, I have to think…
>>made clicking the Like button a 'heavy' action—meaning I have to think about it before doing it. I may be in the minority here, but I think that is a feature, not a bug. "Liking" something should be a heavy action that you think about. I remember when I started getting page-spam from weird pages I'd liked in the early days of Facebook and went back and cleaned up my likes, there were some things in there I didn't r…
At least on Facebook, there's no way to (for instance) list which bands and TV shows you like on your profile anymore without Liking their pages and all the potentially undesirable consequences that come with it. Facebook have systematically and intentionally replaced lighter-weight mechanisms with Likes.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the issue here is not much about privacy, but about your image being associated with a product without your prior consent(for each product), and for free.. when they do this, you become the product together with the thing you are endorsing.. To make this more clear, imagine you signup for a new cable television channel, and you watching it, suddenly your image shows up with a product in your hands, smiling, a…
As I said below, I've opted out (I was already opted out, actually, but I also don't write reviews with my name in the first place), but my only real problem with this is the +1s part of it. I have no problem with quoting a review that you wrote with your name and face associated and putting your name and face next to it for your friends to see. For context, see the ads that appear at the top of yelp search results.…
The ads are the tribute we "pay" as users of free services that are convenient and useful for us in some way..
Theres nothing wrong with the model in itself, it works, it make some things free for us..
The review model you have pointed out, is a ok model i think.. because there's social benefit for all users involved.. this is much more a "facebook like model".. and that can be done because its up to you and your own choices to sponsor some idea, a place or a product if you wish..
But the proposed model will not depend on you, or your will.. and thats what's bad about it.. its just disrespectful.. and we are talking about the possible customers of the sponsored services and products..
But if they really need to do that, at least they should share the profits with the people being exposed to do that..
That way people would consciently participate of this process(by choosing to opt-in and not to opt-out)..
The other thing that is pretty disrespectful and make people anger about, is the fact that people would automatically get into this advert model thing and to choose to opt out of it.. so people that dont even know wahts happening will have their faces and privacy exposed, and maybe look to their friends that they wish to do it...
The correct way to do that would be create this, and invite people to opt in.. if they wish.. this show that the company, whoever they are respect the user of its service..
Otherwise the message looks like: "You use our free services therefore we own you"
I dont care if its google, facebook, microsoft or apple.. i know that things dont used to be like this.. things are getting scary with time.. in a way we wonder what sort of transformation are happening to them? they used to have such a cool services.. and they were profitable in the same way..
Somewhere over the rainbow, they lose their track.. its time to get back to its own roots, before its too late
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
> that it's /better/ to find a product through paid advertising than through 'organic' search results, as if an advertiser has an interest in giving the customer the lowest possible price, or the best possible service for a given price. Nope, I said no such thing. Of course some strawman statement, that you hypothesize that I support, would be seen as laughable by a hypothetical population outside the advertising ind…
>Again, no where did I ever say that an ad is better than an organic result. Please don't claim that I did. It's simply not true. Hm. I'm sorry. That is the impression I've gotten from multiple google employees... that is the impression I got from your post, too. However, you are correct. that's not what you said, that's my interpretation of what you said, which yeah. Is a very different thing. (I mean, I could say I…
That's actually as much, or more, of an argument for better ads as it is for "worse" content.
Competition is generally considered good, and I see competition all around here. In search Google is not simply going to slow down, that would be a recipe for obsolescence. If Google can make search results 10x better, I'm sure they can figure out how to monetize it. If Google lets Bing catch up, that's trouble. In ads, if the ads compete with search results, then make the ads better. Showing endorsements from friends is an example of this, just like such endorsements can show up in search results (I think, not sure). Ad networks also compete against each other, so another search engine that does ads in a way that's better for users will hopefully get rewarded for that, making others respond.
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#105This appears to be opt-in for Google Apps accounts.
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#106So, the expectation when you write a positive review on a Google service is that the review will not be displayed as an endorsement of the product?
Isn't that the entire point of writing the review?
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like Amazon's best rated 5 and 1 star review comparison. I don't mind when one of my ratings comes up at the top either. The most truth lies always in the honest "bad rating" reviews (well, almost always) that others found useful. I really hope that Google does not just please their advertising customers and only show praising reviews but also the critical ones too. Let's wait and see if it's awesome.
When you can only +1 or like something, then the bad reviews do not exist. Advertisers win.
But that's not what this is, it's reviews from Google+ Local.
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#108People are slowly leaving Facebook as they seek out more privacy control. Obviously Facebook still dominates the world of social networks, but there's a lot of friction involved in this aspect of it. So what does Google decide to do? They decide to follow in the footsteps of Facebook and replicate all the same privacy problems, so not only are people going to leave G+ due to changes like this, but people aren't even…
> People are slowly leaving Facebook as they seek out more privacy control. No they aren't. This is just baseless nonsense.
You probably read far too much into my statement and ignored the one following it as well. You probably also ignored the word "slowly."
There was nothing sensationalist about what I wrote. People generally don't leave Facebook, but when they do, privacy concerns are one of the frequently voiced reasons.
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#110Can someone tell me if it's possible to nuke a Google+ account and still keep all of the data in the other services, such as Picasa (now named Google Photos), Docs, Gmail etc? I really want to delete my G+ account, but I'm concerned it will inadvertently nuke something else I'm counting on.
Go to https://www.google.com/settings/account and follow "Delete profile and remove related Google+ features."
It will also delete your connected YouTube channel unless you disconnect it first and later re-enable it.