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It's clear they want you to think they take privacy seriously. They have also made plenty of steps in the past few years towards the opposite. Given they are p
by DannyBee 4y ago
It's clear they want you to think they take privacy seriously.
They have also made plenty of steps in the past few years towards the opposite.
Given they are pushing very hard now on expanding their ad network, we'll see how it plays out.
But overall it seems like complete folly to believe any company really cares.
Some may have good leaders who care deeply at a point in time (and I suspect Tim Cook really does), but that will certainly come and go, and you don't want this kind of thing to be dependent on who is in the driver's seat at a given point in time.
- tigroferoce 4y agoThe company cares for the profit. In some way it's not Google's fault, but it's our fault, because we allowed the concept of a free internet to even exist. Free as in no money, of course. What I see is that free as in no money sells well, while free as in freedom is not that interesting. We have what we deserve and what we have worked really hard to obtain. And this is sad. One might argue that the users were "tricked" into believing that an ads-based system could be not evil, and that now that technology has become a key part of society it should be regulated (like driving, for instance, is). But then, again, we choose our regulators, and we have the regulators we deserve, so ...