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25 bucks from Google for your search data
- BryanB55 15y agoNo thank you. My privacy is worth a bit more than $25
- pagekalisedown 15y agoIt's 5$ every 3 full months of participation, up to 25$. Seems extremely low.
- Sumaso 15y agoIt is a low amount of money, but what are you giving up in order to get that money? A little privacy? Edit: It seems like Google is giving you 5 dollars, for you to do absolutely nothing out of the ordinary
- drivebyacct2 15y agoOut of curiosity, how much money would you need before you'd be willing to give up this aspect of your privacy?
- dansul 15y agoA percentage of what they make from your data should be a fair deal. Although some (like myself) value privacy more than pocket money.
- beneth 15y agoI'm willing to bet that would work out to FAR less than $25.
- dansul 15y agoThis is a year's worth of data-sharing, I think they will gain much more than the equivalent of $25 per user.
- rjd 15y agoI doubt it, some CPM on things like travel sites are easily $25, 3 adds per page, you browse for say a fortnight looking at holidays you'll easily hit your 1000 views/$25 mark
- otakucode 15y agoThat would be the best system. 95% of all revenue generated through use of the data, with transparent accounting of every use of the data. Some of that can be hard to quantify, but Google has already run these numbers. They wouldn't float a program like this if they didn't already know that a persons browsing history for a year can be used by them to bring in several thousand times more revenue than it will cost. (As to how I got 95%.. I figured 10% is the centuries-old standard "finder's fee" people collect when they hook up a buyer and a seller. Google isn't even doing this. They're doing more the equivalent of 'let us harvest all the wheat from your field, and we'll go sell it'. Google can't grow the wheat, so they have to buy it from someone else. You could sell it directly, but it would be a minor pain in the ass. So they're likely entitled to about half of the standard finder's fee.)
- Zirro 15y agoFor me, the answer to that question depends on what happens with my data. Should I assume the worst?
- drivebyacct2 15y agoWell that raises another interesting question, what is the worst? Is it selling it? Is it publishing your browsing history with your name on a blog?
- romanows 15y agoThe worst thing is probably publishing or acting on something that is, in order of importance: succinct, damaging, hard-to-refute, and true.
- rms 15y ago$25/month
- randomdata 15y agoThat was my first thought too, and allowing it be revokable by either party.
- mda 15y agoYour ISP knows all the sites you visit.
- ohashi 15y agoDoes it? VPNs make this easy to get around. Tor does as well. HTTP proxies.
- mda 15y ago99% of internet users uses none of the things you mentioned.
- alphamale3000 15y agoI'd say 99.99%.
- nicksuan 15y agoUsing a VPN (or a proxy) just moves the argument from your ISP, to the ISP where the VPN endpoint is located.
- Zirro 15y agoBut the data is no longer tied to me as it leaves the VPN-service.
- nicksuan 15y agoI wouldn't be so sure: http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/231602248 http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/privacy/2316022...
- Zirro 15y agoI am aware of this case, and have asked my VPN-service explicitly. Their (translated) reply was: "We do not store any logs, and we are not planning to do so. Since we do not store anything, we have nothing to hand out to those who are asking."
- dpcx 15y agoOther than "Knowledge Networks" having the data, is there any downside for those of us already using Google Web History?
- amitamb 15y agoGoogle doesn't know all your Web History. For example it knows which links you clicked in search results but it doesn't know how much time you spent on them, when you closed them or which links you clicked on those pages.
- yalimkgerger 15y agoGoogle Analytics?
- dpcx 15y agoAs I said, I use Google Web History. Every link I click is logged to Google. They can figure out how much time I spent on each page from that.
- amitamb 15y agoIf I understand correctly, you are referring to https://www.google.com/history/ https://www.google.com/history/ Then it can track only links you click on Google websites. So you clicking on your friend's profile in Facebook will not get logged in here. Unless it is browser extension it can not track * every * link.
- notatoad 15y agoif you use the google toolbar for firefox, you can opt in to web history which tracks exactly what you say. i didn't see the option for it in chrome, and i don't think they make the toolbar for firefox anymore (?) but i used to find it a very useful feature.
- speg 15y agoSignup form seems to be broken.
- dhechols 15y agoDon't worry though, the spreadsheets team has been notified.
- DanBC 15y agoI would do this. I would even keep it honest by not using other browsers for some stuff.
- Tichy 15y agoI can't parse the "would" here. Either you do it or you don't. What does "would" mean in this context? (unless you can't do it because you are not yet 13 years old)
- dholowiski 15y agoIt's interesting that there doesn't seem to be any country restrictions - this is usually the type of thing that is USA only. Also, here's a direct link: http://www.google.com/landing/screenwisepanel/ http://www.google.com/landing/screenwisepanel/
- veverkap 15y agoI am constantly logged into my Google account. How is this any different? They track everything already. Now they are going to pay me for it?
- kstenerud 15y agoBy paying you, they get around privacy laws and can sell your data to anyone who wants it.
- sliverstorm 15y agoAnonymously? Or could someone come and request specifically your data?
- kstenerud 15y agoEdit: my mistake. They will attempt to scrub data before sharing it (but make no guarantees). http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/google-paying-users-to-track-100-of-their-web-usage-via-little-black-box.ars http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/google-paying-us...
- luser001 15y agoI think they get to track all pages you visit, time spent per page, which parts of the page are in the viewport, for how long, where on the page you click, etc. Not just a stream of what Google pages you visit.
- Jach 15y agoI think Bing was the worst thing that happened to Google. They've even started paying users now... I wonder how easy the system would be to game.
- blahedo 15y agoThis is really interesting; by giving due consideration for access to your browsing habits and the sites you visit and so forth, they admit that this is not something that they could necessarily have presumed to use for free. The $25 protects them, but I think in some ways it also protects us, or at least future-us.
- Kylekramer 15y agoEveryone seems to be approaching this deal from a strange angle. I understand that it is kind of funny for Google to paying people for their Chrome browsing data, but this just seems to be standard operating procedure for research, market or any other kind. In my university/ramen days, I would do this kind of thing a lot. Nominal fees, often dispensed via gift card, as incentive for your time/contribution. I suspect the Knowledge Networks/Google partnership in this case is much more Knowledge Networks than Google.
- rsingel 15y agoThis is exactly the data Google and MSFT and others get from toolbars. Google and MSFT use this kind of data to improve search results (noting how long users stay on a site, etc.). It's key to the Panda update. So it's no wonder Google pays people to install this.