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Whilst I don't disagree with increasing privacy, as a general solution for everybody into the future this method seems a bit brute force and possibly disruptive
by nop80 10y ago
Whilst I don't disagree with increasing privacy, as a general solution for everybody into the future this method seems a bit brute force and possibly disruptive. If you only use Google search, and don't use other Google services, aren't you simply an IP address to Google? If so, I don't see the harm in the knowing of search trends by geolocation.
At the end of the day, we all have a price for convenience - I knowingly use Facebook even though I hate the loss of privacy.
- drvdevd 10y agoOne issue is just that unless you work for Google (and maybe even if you do) -- you can't know exactly what kind of data structure(s) you are to Google (or any other service provider, large and small). You could be just an IP address, or an IP address and a User-agent or all of the above and then some other crazy stuff, like a browser canvas profile and operating system and age/race/income/sex... no one on the outside of a black box knows for sure exactly how it operates.