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Google will capture your data whether you're a paying customer of not. They will tell you they capture "some data" to personalise their service and make your li
by pengo 8y ago
Google will capture your data whether you're a paying customer of not. They will tell you they capture "some data" to personalise their service and make your life more convenient. In reality, they capture everything they can and it's all grist to their advertising mill.
But Google is not the only company doing this. Facebook and Amazon will track you across the internet, and even Microsoft is now adopting similar strategies.
Your best defence is to minimise the attack surface. Own your own data by paying for cloud storage and email. Use a browser like Brave, or Firefox with the new privacy control turned on. Don't post anything to social media you wouldn't be happy for the whole world to know.
- pengo 8y agoIf you can cope with living in a walled garden, replace all your devices with Apple products.
- jstimpfle 8y agoI find it really hard to tell if you are cynical or not :-) Not making any statement about the current Apple, of course... which I know next to nothing about since I've never owned any Apple devices.
- danesparza 8y agoApple makes some pretty strong claims about your privacy as a customer: https://www.apple.com/privacy/ https://www.apple.com/privacy/
- plg 8y agoMy hardware is all apple. My OS's are all apple. But I use GSuite for email/calendar. Email because I use my own domain and Calendar because we use it at my workplace for scheduling shared resources (conference rooms etc). I suppose I could easily switch to another email provider (e.g. Fastmail). I also suppose I could stop using Google Calendar for my own calendar and only use it for scheduling conference rooms at my workplace. Or get someone else to schedule rooms for me using their google account. I still use google for search but I suppose I could switch. I use apple maps 99.9% of the time and it's fine.
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