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I have not been so fan of most of google work. I do have Gmail account, but that's it. In the past I used use other services such as, search, websites, doc, Goo
by ahmednadar 14y ago
I have not been so fan of most of google work. I do have Gmail account, but that's it. In the past I used use other services such as, search, websites, doc, Google+, ... but not any more. Even Chrome, I use it for testing and nothing else.
Few years back, Chrome has launched what is been described as Evil EUlA [https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+chrome+evil+eula https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+chrome+evil+eula] because of what the EULA at that time contained, as fellowing:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
Now its been changed:
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.
Although they clean their evil mistake but i never used Chrome, i lost respect for them.
As its clear Google search engine is the best even after Bing attempts. But still i don't trust them, I see they know more about me as user while using their search. I did not need that much time to find out they do collect data, track every thing I search for. Recently I ran into [http://www.duckduckgo.com http://www.duckduckgo.com] where they set them self different from Google as "We believe in better search and not tracking." Then i said bye bye google search.
I have ghostery installed in Firefox and I love it. Basically I block any script for Analytics, tracking, privacy and advertising.
Check out what AdSense do behind the scene: [http://www.ghostery.com/apps/google_adsense http://www.ghostery.com/apps/google_adsense]
Data Collected:
Anonymous (Ad Views, Analytics, Browser Information, Cookie Data , Date/Time, Demographic Data, Hardware/Software Type, Interaction Data , Page Views , Serving Domains)
Pseudonymous (IP Address (EU PII), Search History, Location Based Data, Device ID (EU PII))
PII (Phone Number)
Data Sharing:
Anonymous data is shared with 3rd parties.
As you see while you are searching your info (which google got them for free, because you trust them or you don't know) is been sold for third parties.
I want to feel safe and not been watched for what I browse and search online. That's why I like my new trust search engine [http://www.duckduckgo.com http://www.duckduckgo.com]
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- mehrzad 14y agoStartPage.com is nice too. Others here, including me, do not like what Google does much of the time either. But I do respect Go, Android, and Gmail. The other stuff, not as much.
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