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In typical american fashion you paint the world black or white, when it is not so.
I personally know people who have gone Amish, who have gone Entrepreneur, or have gone Corporate. I guess I also know people who have gone Government, or even Military. If you personally know people who have made other choices, please inform us, rather than just insult. You must be French.
Quite frankly if we put in a balance everything good and bad Google has ever done, the positive things they've done outweigh the negative things by a ton. I think that of all the tech companies Google is the most awesome. Seriously I am glad I don't have to pay an Apple tax or a Microsoft tax to develop mobile apps. I am grateful that Android is OSS just for that Google will always have my sympathy.
There is no free lunch, and there is no free web. We all have to start seeing this truth.
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I personally know people who have gone Amish, who have gone Entrepreneur, or have gone Corporate. I guess I also know people who have gone Government, or even Military. If you personally know people who have made other choices, please inform us, rather than just insult. You must be French.
What about going Rebel?
Beg? I didn't list that as an option, I guess.
Farm? I listed going Amish.
F it, we'll do it live! I listed Entrepreneur.
I won't work for google, apple, or microsoft due to the illegal no-poaching agreements they made. I don't want to work for amazon because they are retail - engineering is overhead to be trimmed. Through some weird twist of fate I find myself actually admiring Facebook, not the site, but the company.
Most of the large tech companies mostly turn me off, though there are little glimmers of things they do that are positive. Ironically, I've been breaking my radio silence on G+ over the past couple of days discussing some of this in relation to Gundotra's exodus and the "death of G+" discussions (short answer: yes and no). I just got accused of having favorable views of Facebook (I don't -- I think what the company d…
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It can't. It is processed on the advertisers behalf by Google. If Google allowed it to actually be downloads, their competitors would be able to use it, so the processing is done within Google. That doesn't make it any less of a product for advertisers.
So no, data is not rented, thanks for acknowledging that.