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Google is in the business of surveiling users and selling them to advertisers. Hell, if it weren't for Google, other business models that don't require user sur
by yedava 3y ago
Google is in the business of surveiling users and selling them to advertisers. Hell, if it weren't for Google, other business models that don't require user surveillance might have taken off. The only solution to surveillance is software that users are in full control of. Chrome isn't that.
- IshKebab 3y agoThey're in the business of targeted advertising, not privacy violation. There's a difference.
- archerx 3y agoIs there really?
- zelphirkalt 3y agoAnd what is that difference in practice? Seems to me, that targetting requires privacy violation.
- candiodari 3y agoAllow me to illustrate the difference: https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-u-s-government-is-secretly-using-cell-phone-location-data-to-track-us-were-suing https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/the-u-s-governme... Targetting people to arrest and deport them, to use violence against them. That would be a practical example of government privacy violation. I work at a telco, and they also do this for debt enforcement, locating not-up-to-date-on-payments cars, tracking down kids who ran to their parents from youth services is also done, ... THAT is a real problem. Suggesting it's time to buy a present for your wife because of upcoming wedding anniversary is targeted advertising.
- LocalH 3y agoThere's no difference. Targeted advertising demands information that I (and others) may not want Google (or other scumbag advertisers) to have. That's a privacy violation.