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>Yes, that starts with "leaving it" You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%. An overwhelmingly
by ax0ar 8y ago
>Yes, that starts with "leaving it"
You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%.
An overwhelmingly large percentage of users won't care about what could happen as long as nothing happens directly affecting them. Mass surveillance companies like Google, Facebook know this and take advantage of it.
Technology activists aren't strong enough to start a wave that would lead to people abandoning these evil corps..
Also, as others mentioned, they eat up all competition.. so there aren't really any good options left apart from Google products in areas they compete.
- superflyguy 8y ago"You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%." Not unaware of, just don't care. Most people aren't persnickety, anal, border line autistic nerds so Google/Facebook knowing who they know or where they are, when they're using software to tell their friends where they are or are using maps to literally work out where they are right now is just not an issue. If you really don't want to be tracked you shouldn't have a smartphone, not worry yourself with what Vn+0.1 of an app is doing which Vn wasn't.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago> Most people aren't persnickety, anal, border line autistic nerds so Google/Facebook knowing who they know or where they are, when they're using software to tell their friends where they are or are using maps to literally work out where they are right now is just not an issue. Please don't insult people for caring about privacy.
- superflyguy 8y agoNot "caring about privacy"; having retarded notions that you can walk around with a tracking device like one might expect a criminal be forced to carry and somehow still have privacy by deleting this cookie or logging out of that service.