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Because if google offered it, people that are worried about tracking like myself wouldn't buy it. Indeed, it would require a google account, and one that is al

Because if google offered it, people that are worried about tracking like myself wouldn't buy it. Indeed, it would require a google account, and one that is always connected. Basically giving full view of my private life to google and trust that no matter how bad their track record is, from now on they are going to respect it. I don't trust them to give them that data, and even if I did, I don't trust a gov won't abuse it eventually or something else down the line. Hence I'd rather not have a google account, and use ad blockers so that the data is just not communicated to them. It should be a constitutional right to do so.

gtirloni 4y ago
> people that are worried about tracking like myself wouldn't buy it. That's an incredibly tiny fraction of Google Search users.
- OJFord 4y ago
  But a larger fraction of the users that seek a method of stopping ads.
judge2020 4y ago
Ideally you would be able to have an extension that says “hey, I’m on example.com/page and I’m not going to load ads. That all you get to know to pay out a portion of my subscription to the website operator”. The issue with this is that Google typically doesn’t have an exclusivity agreement with websites, and header bidding is quite prevalent, so it doesn’t make sense for Google to allow people to pay to remove Google ads if they’re just going to get out-header-bid anyways when someone comes along with Google Premium+no ad blocker and suddenly the website is showing ads from another ad network instead, leading the user to think Google Premium doesn’t work. And I don’t think most people would buy a Premium offering if all it did was remove results in Google Search; the only people that helps is Google and most people can easily scroll past those even without Adblock.
- renewiltord 4y ago
  Brave tried to build this into the browser.
scarface74 4y ago
Do you use Android?
- BiteCode_dev 4y ago
  I do, but don't login to a google account, don't have the play store, use micro-g, etc.
  - alok-g 4y ago
    I do the same thing as you, however, was not aware of microG. Does it require rooting? (I could not find on the website.)
cypress66 4y ago
Of course they would never do this. But it is possible with cryptography to have a system where you can prove that you paid for such service without proving who you are.

gtirloni 4y ago

> people that are worried about tracking like myself wouldn't buy it. That's an incredibly tiny fraction of Google Search users.

OJFord 4y ago
But a larger fraction of the users that seek a method of stopping ads.

judge2020 4y ago

Ideally you would be able to have an extension that says “hey, I’m on example.com/page and I’m not going to load ads. That all you get to know to pay out a portion of my subscription to the website operator”. The issue with this is that Google typically doesn’t have an exclusivity agreement with websites, and header bidding is quite prevalent, so it doesn’t make sense for Google to allow people to pay to remove Google ads if they’re just going to get out-header-bid anyways when someone comes along with Google Premium+no ad blocker and suddenly the website is showing ads from another ad network instead, leading the user to think Google Premium doesn’t work. And I don’t think most people would buy a Premium offering if all it did was remove results in Google Search; the only people that helps is Google and most people can easily scroll past those even without Adblock.

renewiltord 4y ago
Brave tried to build this into the browser.

scarface74 4y ago

Do you use Android?

BiteCode_dev 4y ago
I do, but don't login to a google account, don't have the play store, use micro-g, etc.
- alok-g 4y ago
  I do the same thing as you, however, was not aware of microG. Does it require rooting? (I could not find on the website.)

cypress66 4y ago

Of course they would never do this. But it is possible with cryptography to have a system where you can prove that you paid for such service without proving who you are.