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It's nowhere near enough notice to take reasonable action. You say it could be done in a weekend. Do you know this because you've done it? To do anything oth
by rbarooah 15y ago
It's nowhere near enough notice to take reasonable action.
You say it could be done in a weekend. Do you know this because you've done it?
To do anything other than an emergency exit, you need time to evaluate and select alternatives, and that doesn't include things like GMail, where there needs to be an overlap for people to update my address etc. (yes I used my own domain - no google didn't make it transparent enough that my gmail address didn't leak out).
As for the flood zone analogy - that's absurd. At some point along the way I'd have had to decide I was going to stop using them. In my case that point is now.
You seem to be suggesting that it should have been before now, and that a change in terms and conditions isn't a reasonable indication of their future direction.
Consider that Google's could have changed their T&Cs in the other direction - to commit to greater segregation of user data had they thought this was important.
They didn't.
- freehunter 15y agoSo lessons learned: Exit strategy. Even if you don't plan on exiting, always have options ready. Diversity: Using a single vendor for everything is convenient but not always best practice. Reading the privacy policy: Google has been doing data collection almost since they started. The only thing different now is they have one privacy policy and one set of data for all their products. I understand that some people may not be comfortable with what Google does, but this new change isn't giving them more access to your data, it's just merging their products into one. If this is the catalyst for dumping Google completely, I'm not seeing why it shouldn't have been earlier unless you just didn't know they're an advertising company. Also, I'm curious: why would they try to segment their products further? What benefit would it give Google or the user?
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- rbarooah 15y agoAre you really trying to say it should have been obvious in 2003 what Google would be today?
- freehunter 15y agoI'm saying they had the same method of operation: take demographic data to show better advertisements. Nothing has changed except they're adding new products.
- rbarooah 15y agoRight - and each new product increases the scope of the profiling they are able to do and reveals more about their product strategy. At a certain point this became more than I was willing to tolerate in return for the value of the products. I don't see why this is so contentious.