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Wow, Google did lunch with ad scanning huh! I misremembered the controversy, I followed it closely at launch but that was loong ago. That does hurt my premise
by marricks 6y ago
Wow, Google did lunch with ad scanning huh! I misremembered the controversy, I followed it closely at launch but that was loong ago.
That does hurt my premise but I think it overall still holds:
- Google did stop reading email for ads in 2017 as I said in an other post[1].
- Google does have a policy of innovate then monetize later. That was explicitly what they did with Google Maps
- GMail was a good (but bit wrong as I brought up!) example of creeping surveillance, but Chrome provides a good example as well[2]. Google sells ads, it's products will be optimized to gather information for it.
[1] https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-emails-1202477321/ https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/google-gmail-ads-email...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/google-chrome-privacy/google-hit-with-new-privacy-lawsuit-over-chrome-browser-data-idUSL2N2EZ24W https://www.reuters.com/article/google-chrome-privacy/google...
- rossjudson 6y agoUpvoting, because it's sadly quite rare to read "thank you for providing clarifying facts, and I shall appropriately update my opinions".