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Honest question because I seriously don't know: Is facebook really worse than google when it comes to privacy? I kind of wonder who exactly are the people tell

by zxcvcxz 10y ago

Honest question because I seriously don't know: Is facebook really worse than google when it comes to privacy? I kind of wonder who exactly are the people telling everyone to block facebook everywhere while everyone seems to collectively ignore google. Google and facebook seem to both purposely ignore the known implications of their data collection programs. They likely have handed over data to the NSA, and we know they sell the data.

superuser2 10y ago
Not really. We know that they sell ads which can be targeted to users with specific characteristics. If you have discovered actual user data for sale from Google or Facebook, that's news.
renaudg 10y ago
> we know they sell the data Sounds a lot like "we know global warming is fake" and "we know vaccines are evil" to me.
hanspeter 10y ago
> Is facebook really worse than google when it comes to privacy? No. In my view Google (has the potential to) collect a lot more sensitive data than Facebook. All Facebook knows is who my friends are and stuff like what things I like and where I've been - mostly things that I wouldn't mind being public anyway. Google knows everything I search for, every email I receive and every web page I visit.