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> This is scummy, I’m struggling to understand why this is even scummy. This specific activity tracking isn’t even used for advertising like many are assuming
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
> This is scummy,
I’m struggling to understand why this is even scummy.
This specific activity tracking isn’t even used for advertising like many are assuming (Source: https://support.google.com/a/answer/11194328?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/11194328?hl=en ).
Everything about this article and what it’s implying feels like it was carefully crafted to generate maximum outrage while omitting all of the relevant details that might clarify what’s happening.
This article and headline were basically crafted to be ragebait, and it appears to have succeeded.
- Wowfunhappy 5y ago> I’m struggling to understand why this is even scummy. Y’know what, I edited that out. It does seem to me that the new user preference should default to what the admin set previously. It looks like that may be what is happening though: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30841812. My original comment had assumed that the article itself, at least, was accurate.
- BeefWellington 5y agoEven were we to assume that Google is telling the truth regarding the activity tracking, let's switch the context here and make the setting relatively benign. Imagine Microsoft or Apple were to reset settings around crash reporting, causing all Windows and MacOS systems to begin sending crash report data. Would this be acceptable? This would IMO be scummy as well. Even if all you say is true to the above, if company policy requires it to be off, then this is costing companies money to bring them into compliance with policy, suddenly, because of Google.