The Many Ways Google Harvests Data
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#3Just some of the ways Google collects data [1]:
Google Search, Google Fiber, Google Recaptcha, Google Translate, Google Adsense, Google Chrome (Safe Browsing checks etc.), Google DNS (8.8.4.4 etc.), Google Mail, Android Integrations, Google GSuite (Sheets, Docs, etc.), Google Drive, Google Analytics, Google AMP, YouTube
So on and so forth. Of course, Google keeps most of this data to themselves to improve products and sell ads, but it's scary how much they have especially since they broke down the firewall between services. [2]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products
[2] https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/updating-our-privacy...
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#4I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust.
Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself.
Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose to give them permission to collect my data, because I get direct value from it.
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#5I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust. Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself. Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose…
> controls that I trust.
I think this trust might be misplaced.
> Example: Location history. It is turned off by default.
Displaying your location history to you is turned off by default. Google's own recording of your location, for their purposes, cannot be turned off.
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#6I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust. Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself. Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose…
> controls that I trust. I think this trust might be misplaced. > Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. Displaying your location history to you is turned off by default. Google's own recording of your location, for their purposes, cannot be turned off.
> Example: Location history. It is turned off by default.
Do you want to turn Location History on?
Are you suuuuure you don't want to turn location history on?
To use maps effectively you need location history on. Turn on?
Location history may affect ____ you wanna turn it on?
How about now, location history is a great thing to turn on....
EDIT: for those of you who downmodded this, the point was that if you have location history off, Google spams you constantly with requests to turn it on. You'll get this request for opening up maps, using Google Now, or a dozen other things generated from many apps. There is also no option to temporarily turn on for app.
Not so nice uses of LocHis: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-location-his...
Explains how LocHis tendrils are everywhere: https://qz.com/1183559/if-youre-using-an-android-phone-googl...
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#7https://duckduckgo.com https://protonmail.com https://apple.com
One of these things is not like the other. DuckDuckGo and Proton were founded on the basis of protecting privacy and not sharing personal data. The other is part of the cabal.
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#8I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust. Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself. Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose…
Google is helping the Pentagon kill people with drones. How could they be “less creepy” than Facebook(who I otherwise agree is awful)?
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#9I think Google is a lot less creepy than Facebook. Yes, they vacuum a lot of data, but I do get directly related benefits from it, as well as controls that I trust. Example: Location history. It is turned off by default. I chose to turn it on, so I can know places I’ve been to previously (if I forget the name). It’s like a journal that writes itself. Google has its privacy issues, but on a whole I voluntarily choose…
Why doesn't such logic apply to Facebook?
It’s like a journal that writes itself.
Google is actually creepier to me than Facebook just by comparing their market share in online advertising (Google is twice as much as Facebook), and how actively their officials engaged in political issues.
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#10Solution: Ban Lobbying?