Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch

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Post by kawera » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 4:27 PM UTC

Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch
bradfrost.com

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Post by thebiglebrewski » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

Oh man this is what I hate the most about my Pixel. How can I turn it off?

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Post by Zhenya » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:03 PM UTC

OP is freaked that the data that was shared with Google is used to help Google get a bigger dataset...

Get a grip.

Edit: Downvotes now rolling in. I'd love to know why. Is this a bug? Is Google doing something wrong? Or did OP hand over the data and not bother to go through the settings to turn off things they didn't like .

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Post by GCU-Empiricist » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:05 PM UTC

I generally prefer android to iOS because it's easier to work with as a dev, but this has been making me think about converting back.

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Post by mc32 » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

Ah, finally, their G+ efforts finally bore fruit and shows their hand.

G+ has been the impetus behind all of this and has led Google away from their core search and related tech and more into weaving itself into our daily lives, mercilessly.

I love most of Goog, but G+ has diverted them into this social mess. It's something I wish they'd left well enough alone.

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Post by dawhizkid » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:06 PM UTC

I think this is called "shadow work"...Google has turned you into a mechanical turk without pay :)

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Post by JustSomeNobody » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

Hasn't Google been telling everyone for years that they want users to have information at their fingertips? They've built their platform around this. Google wants to do things like set a calendar reminder when it sees that you got emailed a receipt for plane tickets. When they see you just ate a restaurant they want to suggests things to do after (movie, play, concert, etc). They've been telling everyone this is what they want to do.

So, if someone is using Google products, why are they freaked out about this?

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Post by innagadadavida » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:08 PM UTC

Site is down, as ironic as it might sound, here is the Google Cache of it:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bradfro...

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Post by Anderkent » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:10 PM UTC

Hm. I find google map reviews fairly useful, and so don't mind contributing. I don't know why my phone figuring out if I'm near a restaurant I would like is creepy?

It's nowhere near as creepy as find my device, which everyone seems OK with.

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Post by fwdpropaganda » Thu, Jan 18, 2018, 5:11 PM UTC

Two things that happened to me:

A) I walk into a store, get a notification from google photos asking me "I see you're at store X, wouldn't you like to take some pictures?". Possibly to use as part of google maps. Thinking back I think this is when I started de-googlifying my life.

B) I get a notification from google maps asking me "you're travelling to place X soon, wouldn't you like to download an offline map, just in case you don't have connection there?" Google must have learned that because I had the plane ticket on gmail.