I don't want to trust Google with possession of my photos, but with Glass, there is no choice; it automatically backs up every picture and video to Google+, and you can't stop it from doing so, even with root.
Poll: How much do you trust Google?
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#22So to everyone saying there is no good alternative - out of curiosity, what are other services missing? Things like Gmail and Google Voice weren't a particularly big deal to me. Fastmail is more then reasonable of a replacement for mail, and in place of Voice, well, unlimited long distance isn't all that hard to get. In lieu of call distribution, I'll just forward them manually if I need to be reached somewhere else.
No big deal to you. Plenty of big deal to others including myself. I have no reason not to trust Google.
Sorry, let me rephrase that. Finding an alternative to them was no big deal for me.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#23So to everyone saying there is no good alternative - out of curiosity, what are other services missing? Things like Gmail and Google Voice weren't a particularly big deal to me. Fastmail is more then reasonable of a replacement for mail, and in place of Voice, well, unlimited long distance isn't all that hard to get. In lieu of call distribution, I'll just forward them manually if I need to be reached somewhere else.
From google services I use only the search engine. So far I don't see any real alternative.
I thought Startpage was effectively anonymized Google?
I will say they kinda suck for searches with boolean operators, though. What with all the DMCA takedowns Google gets, that might be a moot point for some things anyway.
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#24I posted recently about how they lost my trust after snaring schools with offers of free email and Chromebooks, used that captive audience of kids to secretively build profiles to show ads, denied it when caught, but chickened out about lying in federal court and now they declare they've stopped doing it. Add to that statements that it couldn't be turned off and silently switching language about tracking on their web…
Evil is kidnapping a school because you feel that western education is against the rules of your religion.
Boko Haram kidnapped over 230 schoolgirls in Nigeria. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/hundreds-march-...
But even if we avoid extremists, it's easier to call people evil when they spy on their pupils using the webcams on the school provided laptops. And then, after people have complained, they do it again. http://www.wired.com/2011/06/webcam-scandal-resurfaces/
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#25In other note, I noticed that if you vote in poll but didn't up vote the post itself, it lowers the post ranking.
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#26I posted recently about how they lost my trust after snaring schools with offers of free email and Chromebooks, used that captive audience of kids to secretively build profiles to show ads, denied it when caught, but chickened out about lying in federal court and now they declare they've stopped doing it. Add to that statements that it couldn't be turned off and silently switching language about tracking on their web…
This is perhaps a bit greedy but not evil...evil is bombing an elementary school: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/30/world/meast/syria-civil-war/
So when Google said their policy was 'Dont be evil.', they meant they would do their utmost to refrain from blowing up elementary schools?
According to Brin and Page: "Don't be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served-as shareholders and in all other ways-by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company."
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#27I don't know how to answer your poll.
I wish that Google would respect all my different accounts and account names. Sure, have some page where they're all linked and shown in some tree and allow me to set privacy settings, but stop logging me in and out of different accounts.
I am a lot more worried about companies having access to my data. I trust Google more than I trust Facebook or a bunch of other companies. I would prefer to be a bit more anonymous though.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you let us know the other services you have migrated to? Would help.
Not the OP, but I've moved a lot of my file hosting from both Google and Dropbox services to a self-hosted install of OwnCloud. Unfortunately, one of my preferred ways of using Dropbox for sharing single files directly without an HTML interstitial page is not well supported by OwnCloud. I, too, have stopped using Google+, and did not replace it with anything. I have gotten rid of my accounts on all social networking…
https://github.com/owncloud
Shouldn't be too hard to make it supply you with the direct download link - it has to know it somewhere! Just fork it ;)
Re: Poll: How much do you trust Google?
#29I don't want to trust Google with possession of my photos, but with Glass, there is no choice; it automatically backs up every picture and video to Google+, and you can't stop it from doing so, even with root.
Well, to me this is yet another reason to not use Glass.
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#30I choose option E: none of the above.
I trust them (as much as I can trust any online service) with some of my data, but I have never trusted any of them with my crucial data. I host my own emails, I host (for most parts) my own git repositories, and I have made a conscious decision to stay as far away from social networking sites as possible.
As for the few concessions, I have simply made sure that I keep only a minimum amount of data outside my own control.