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People don’t want privacy. They want results. Society programs us to think privacy is our top concern. Is it?
by xwdv 5y ago
People don’t want privacy. They want results.
Society programs us to think privacy is our top concern. Is it?
- InfiniteRand 5y agoI feel like privacy is a concern relative to the chance of my information being misused and the damage from the misuse of that information. If a search engine wants to collect random facts about me but that collection is extremely unlikely to affect me in any way I couldn’t care less
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI do think you are mostly correct. Some people really care about privacy, but for most people it isn't a huge concern. This doesn't make it any less important, but just means that if your main selling point is "we're the search engine that cares about privacy", then odds are you're not going to get a lot of users.
- lardolan 5y agoI agree with most of your points. Although It may be matter of a time to grow that niche. IMO Pople who value it are willing to take sacrifice of less functional outputs. Privacy is most effective selling point when working with sensitive information.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIf you are working with sensitive information, the last thing you probably want to do is broadcast that you are working with sensitive information.
- kreeben 5y agoAu contraire, it's the first thing you should broadcast, unless you're trying to scam people out of their PII.
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