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Yeah, Google could still be the cool company they were around 2000, if they just were not so greedy about collecting data for their Advertising business... Ano
by JepZ 9y ago
Yeah, Google could still be the cool company they were around 2000, if they just were not so greedy about collecting data for their Advertising business...
Another thing is that every time you start using an Android phone, all Google sync services are activated. So you have no chance to disable them until its too late and Google uploaded all your contacts into their cloud. That should be illegal.
- fixermark 9y agoI'm not sure why people think the data is being collected for advertising, as opposed to, say, improving the ground-truth on the Google Maps dataset. I've contributed some images to the photo request. They end up appearing in Maps as the picture of the establishment.
- JepZ 9y agoYeah, sure the pictures are for maps, but in the end Maps turned into a place where businesses have to be present as it is the de facto location based search engine. At the moment, I am not sure how they are making money with maps, but I find it a little odd that they keep asking to contribute pictures when it clearly shows that they are tracking every movement of you. So something is wrong there (at the very least that they are tracking us all).
- singularity2001 9y agoactually I'm pretty sure it in Europe it is illegal. thanks for pointing it out.