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"Privacy and ads are a huge issue for me (and the reason I will not own one)" Has there been any indication this product will have ads? It is a paid product,
by SquareWheel 14y ago
"Privacy and ads are a huge issue for me (and the reason I will not own one)"
Has there been any indication this product will have ads? It is a paid product, unlike Google services. Google's products so far haven't had any ads in them.
- mirkules 14y agoYou are right, there is no indication it will have ads. But just because it's a paid product does not mean that the cost of the hardware cannot be subsidized by ads/data, or will not be in the future. Either way, as I stated above, data and ads are Google's primary business model. It is more a (perhaps-irrational) distrust of Google having the potential to use my data, than of the concept itself. I don't mean to single out Google -- they are generally good with non-intrusive ads in GMail and have a proven track record of security. But it freaks me out that any company would have access to everything I see. Also what happens to all that data when the terms of service are changed (like ToS was changed last year)?
- JackpotDen 14y agoWell, I upgraded to 4.1 on my paid android phone and got an advert for the chromebook.