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<< This feels like getting all the disadvantages but none of the advantages. I couldn't have said it better. It's funny because I'm totally cool with having an
by biocomputation 9y ago
<< This feels like getting all the disadvantages but none of the advantages.
I couldn't have said it better. It's funny because I'm totally cool with having an account provided it does things like gives me access to software, drivers, tools, backups, whatever. But yeah, I'm not going for it if it's just an excuse to vacuum up data. It's gotten to the point where I actively avoid companies/products that just don't get the message.
To this point, I switched from Google to Microsoft a few years ago because I really got sick of feeling like my personal data was just making them richer in exchange for nothing. Email and web apps aren't worth the loss of privacy.
At first Bing search was a bit weird, but then it turned out that it worked just as well as Google for most things, and better for some.
- jacksmith21006 9y agoTrust MS more than Google? MS put an ad inside windows for OneDrive. MS put a nag inside the OS to use Edge. To me MS has crossed lines you just do not cross.
- freeflight 9y agoMS putting advertisements of its own products inside its other products is certainly not a cool move, nobody wants to pay for ads. But in regards to private data, the parent does have a point. Google's main business is aggregating data for ad purposes, selling their users privacy is how they make most of their money, you wouldn't expect anything else from them. MS does some of that too, but they make most of their money through other means, so they have less incentive of disrespecting their user's privacy. Even more so considering the PR blowback if it should ever turn out that Windows spies on its users so MS can sell that data.