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How long before Google and Microsoft put up an automated warning: Your recent search queries suggest you may have cancer, please seek advice from your doctor.
by andy_ppp 10y ago
How long before Google and Microsoft put up an automated warning:
Your recent search queries suggest you may have cancer, please seek advice from your doctor.
Or some time in the future...
The pattern of your searches seems to indicate you are a terrorist, we aren't telling you and we have called the thought police.
- Razengan 10y agoI had an humorous image of that information being relayed to you by Clippy.
- andy_ppp 10y agoYou appear to be writing a hacker news comment, do you want me to really fuck that up for you?
- robmcm 10y agoWhat if they put this warning up to their (actual) customers, like the US insurance companies that could hike premiums or ditch their customers before they realized they had costly conditions.
- beefield 10y agoI would be quite likely willing to pay Google for their services more than they are making out of me currently, if: 1.They agree legally bindingly not to give any of my data to anyone. 2. They do not show me a single ad anywhere. Obviously, that would mess the current business model of everyone counting on adwords revenue, so I am not holding my breath here.
- robmcm 10y agoThey would quickly have a potential revenue ceiling that would likely decline over time. At the moment it's the opposite.
- xviia 10y agoGoogle is trying this with their YoutTube Red, which removes all advertising from YouTube. I believe it is actually kore profitable than advertising. With ads, an average person is worth between $0.01 and $1 a month (depending on what type of ads), much less than the $9 for YouTube Red.