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"...the realization hit me, that if Good Guys like Google and RSA were collecting all this information, it was a given that Bad Guys were too, and we have no id

"...the realization hit me, that if Good Guys like Google and RSA were collecting all this information, it was a given that Bad Guys were too, and we have no idea just who is." Google is neither the 'good guy' or the 'bad guy'. They aren't there to look out for your best interests and we'd all be much better if we stop ascribing human qualities to gigantic corporations. No other company tracks your online behaviour at such industrial scale as Google - and gets so little scrutiny for it. For most of the tech community, Google's level of tracking is perfectly fine because Google has never had a data breach (that we know of). That somehow makes everything fine. When it comes to matters of privacy, there's a lot of hypocrisy from the tech community.

908087 8y ago
"Don't be evil" was one of the most successful pieces of feel good propaganda I've ever seen from any corporation. People still regularly quote it as "proof" that Google is an altruistic entity which only spies on you to "provide you with a better experience" and "change the world" (with "for the better" being implied). It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.
- sixstringbudha 8y ago
  >It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words. One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy". Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?

908087 8y ago

"Don't be evil" was one of the most successful pieces of feel good propaganda I've ever seen from any corporation. People still regularly quote it as "proof" that Google is an altruistic entity which only spies on you to "provide you with a better experience" and "change the world" (with "for the better" being implied). It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words.

sixstringbudha 8y ago
>It's amazing how easy it is to get the majority of people to completely shut down their critical thinking abilities. In this case, it only took 3 words. One amusing thing I have noticed is that how fast all of the internet got converted into google catcha system which was originally supposed to convert books, but now a days just show traffic lights, cars, buses and fire hydrants. And no one, bats an eye. And even worse, still calls google the "good guy". Do you know how many images it makes you click if you try to access it with a clean state?