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> The ONLY solution is to make 'sinning' an existential threat to the firm. Since the userbase consists largely of people who pay them to not act like google,
by chefandy 3y ago
> The ONLY solution is to make 'sinning' an existential threat to the firm.
Since the userbase consists largely of people who pay them to not act like google, at least for now, it likely would be an existential threat to the firm. They couldn't get much worse in that regard than big free services, so I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. In the interim, I'm putting my money where my mouth is and paying out of pocket for a really good service. The results are consistently more useful than Google's and the tooling is much much better. So if they are invasively tracking me and selling my data, you can definitely say "i told you so" but maybe we should call off the firing squad until the verdict has been reached. We currently don't have a trial, charges, a crime, evidence, or even empirically-informed suspicion.
- Frost1x 3y agoWell the other risk you have trusting all your personal data to some organization is the longevity of said organization. Your data may be protected as long as their business model aligns with that but it's never guaranteed to stay that way. One of the best historic examples is MySpace. MySpace started out fine and slowly as it declined and eventually dwindled to nothing, it started selling off massive amounts of previous user data. With no future or user base to speak of, there was a lot more potential benefit selling the data than the cost of protecting/holding it.
- chefandy 3y agoAt their worst, they're not any worse than my alternatives. DDG is a modicum better than Google for privacy, but using it makes me want to punch the internet in the face.