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Fallacy alert: Just because people love Google search doesn't mean they love it because it is highly personalized. In the absence of better data, one could just
by kijin 15y ago
Fallacy alert: Just because people love Google search doesn't mean they love it because it is highly personalized. In the absence of better data, one could just as easily substitute "despite" for "because" in that sentence. The author's argument is analogous to saying that China's stance on civil rights is perfectly OK because everyone buys electronics made in China.
I'm rarely logged into Google, and I send the DNT header. This results in very little personalization of my search results, if at all. And I still prefer Google's search results to anything served up by Bing or DDG.
- feylias 15y agoYes. I looked through the comments on the article and the comments here waiting for someone to point out what the article should have addressed. That correlation isn't causation is so basic I'm still not sure I didn't maybe miss something in the main text.