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I don’t get it. I give the search engine a string. Who is arguing against them searching for the string? They’re arguing against using location tracking and thi
by avgcorrection 3y ago
I don’t get it. I give the search engine a string. Who is arguing against them searching for the string? They’re arguing against using location tracking and third party tracking in order to figure out that, actually, you’re not searching for a specific type of tree trunk but for viagra pills.
I also might not want my previous searches to impact my later ones. (Just give good results again, Google Search...)
- interroboink 3y agoThe issue comes down to how we define "user data" and "consent" (as casually mentioned in the originating comment). Can the search engine look at your IP address or other location information to give you more accurate local results? Can they build a profile of your previous searches, to determine what you're interested in? If you search for your spouse's name or your place of work, is that now data they can associate with you? This is not an either/or question of "user data"/"not user data" or "consent"/"not consent", but shades of gray (how much consent are you giving, and to how much of your data and for which purposes). My comment was just meant to illustrate that there's a spectrum to discuss rather than it being a black & white issue. I tried to do that by giving an example of another point on that spectrum.
- avgcorrection 3y agoNo to all of the above. I already made the point that a search engine can just search for the given string and not muck about with user-specific data… that’s what the user expects a lot of the time.