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What really bugs me that there is really no opt out. You can ONLY click “I agree”, or don’t use it. So I don’t.
by prox 6y ago
What really bugs me that there is really no opt out. You can ONLY click “I agree”, or don’t use it. So I don’t.
- judge2020 6y agoThat is the opt-out. They provide services in exchange for you clicking 'i agree'; if they can't generate value from your use of a service, they don't want to be obligated to lose money by providing you some service for free. The only problem is how consumers don't read the privacy policy and/or don't understand how valuable their data is to these companies.
- inetknght 6y agoThat's only part of the problem. The other part is locking away all of your data - emails, files, contacts, calendar, apps - if you don't want to agree to a change to the policy. Own an Android phone? Good luck opting out of a change to the agreement!
- sukilot 6y agoData isn't locked away. Only apps are.
- ocdtrekkie 6y agoWhilst Takeout is a thing, most of the data you'll get isn't in a form that's reasonably useful on it's own. You need to be a programmer to extract value out of a Google Takeout dump in a lot of cases. (I am sad more open source projects don't prioritize an "import from Takeout"-type feature.)
- foolmeonce 6y agoThe other problem is that not clicking agree could affect your future employment. Even if another search is better more than half the time, (or search bubbles vary,) people expect you to have found an answer that is first for them on Google. So work would need to be forced to pay Google with their own data for each employee.
- Const-me 6y agoYou can install an adblocker. Some google services like e-mail are usable with third party client apps, they don't track nor show ads.