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Your convenience at the expense of your privacy. I personally think it's great that I can lookup what I did two months ago thanks to Google services. I adblock

Your convenience at the expense of your privacy. I personally think it's great that I can lookup what I did two months ago thanks to Google services. I adblock and disable as much ad tracking as possible but I'm pretty happy with how useful google services are for my day to day errands. It reminds me of places I went two years ago that I couldn't remember without it. I find it strange people complain about it, yet still use their services. That's hypocrisy right there as well as a deeply unsettling conflict within. Everyone is entitled to make their choice of what phone they buy.

Hnrobert42 6y ago
The complaint is that there are few viable alternatives. Whenever one does arise, Google or another tech behemoth buys it, eg Waze. Trust me, I am aware of the conflict. I hate Google with a passion, yet I still use some of their services. I feel sick doing it, but sometimes the convenience is worth my nausea.
- tedk-42 6y ago
  Your last statement reflects my post entirely. This contradiction is your problem, not Googles. They will continue to make money off you and me. The only difference is I don't get the nausea. Until you show me something REALLY dodgy they're are doing, I'll keep using their services. As I mentioned before, I'm aware they sell my behaviour as advertising data to companies. On my end I block as much advertising as possible so I find it's a useless strategy product teams pushing things onto me.
octoberfranklin 6y ago
> Everyone is entitled to make their choice of what phone they buy. Technology is becoming more capital-intensive MUCH more rapidly than the total amount of capital in the economy is growing. As a result, the economy can support fewer and fewer choices as time goes on. We're already at the point where there are only one-and-a-half companies selling LTE modem chips. All the good phones use Qualcomm's chips. The only other producer is Realtek, whose chips are only used in (AFAICT) extremely low-end phones sold only in developing countries. Qualcomm can backdoor your phone's modem chip with total impunity. Perhaps they already have.
- dkdk8283 6y ago
  I worked for a company building a phone. Baseband firmware is a blob and had DMA.
- tedk-42 6y ago
  While I support your argument, the brand damage caused to the company if they were found out to be doing so would be massive. I don't think it's useful for an arguments point of view to speculate that a chipset company has already built in backdoors to their products.
srtjstjsj 6y ago
You complain about air pollution yet you still breathe? How hypocritical!
- tedk-42 6y ago
  Ahh strawman. Well done. Breathing is a requirement for life. Owning an android phone isn't.

Hnrobert42 6y ago

The complaint is that there are few viable alternatives. Whenever one does arise, Google or another tech behemoth buys it, eg Waze. Trust me, I am aware of the conflict. I hate Google with a passion, yet I still use some of their services. I feel sick doing it, but sometimes the convenience is worth my nausea.

tedk-42 6y ago
Your last statement reflects my post entirely. This contradiction is your problem, not Googles. They will continue to make money off you and me. The only difference is I don't get the nausea. Until you show me something REALLY dodgy they're are doing, I'll keep using their services. As I mentioned before, I'm aware they sell my behaviour as advertising data to companies. On my end I block as much advertising as possible so I find it's a useless strategy product teams pushing things onto me.

octoberfranklin 6y ago

> Everyone is entitled to make their choice of what phone they buy. Technology is becoming more capital-intensive MUCH more rapidly than the total amount of capital in the economy is growing. As a result, the economy can support fewer and fewer choices as time goes on. We're already at the point where there are only one-and-a-half companies selling LTE modem chips. All the good phones use Qualcomm's chips. The only other producer is Realtek, whose chips are only used in (AFAICT) extremely low-end phones sold only in developing countries. Qualcomm can backdoor your phone's modem chip with total impunity. Perhaps they already have.

dkdk8283 6y ago
I worked for a company building a phone. Baseband firmware is a blob and had DMA.
tedk-42 6y ago
While I support your argument, the brand damage caused to the company if they were found out to be doing so would be massive. I don't think it's useful for an arguments point of view to speculate that a chipset company has already built in backdoors to their products.

srtjstjsj 6y ago

You complain about air pollution yet you still breathe? How hypocritical!

tedk-42 6y ago
Ahh strawman. Well done. Breathing is a requirement for life. Owning an android phone isn't.