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So I checked out some of the user profile of people who are flat out proposing that google is colluding with the government and is lying right now to the users

by pavs 13y ago

So I checked out some of the user profile of people who are flat out proposing that google is colluding with the government and is lying right now to the users and they don't believe any official word coming out from google. Not only are their google+ profile very active, I am going to assume they are still using and most likely will be using google products (or products from other companies who has been implicated) months from now even if nothing changes. The question is, lets say you are absolutely sure beyond any doubt that all these companies willfully (or unwillingly but now lying to you) shared data with the government. What do you do now? Do you accept it as it is and carry on? Do you stop using their service? Or do you campaign to stop these companies and government from doing this (seems highly unlikely to be effective or verify)?

waterphone 13y ago
I'm likely going to use their services in a reduced capacity whether they were complicit or not, simply because this incident has highlighted the risk of companies who store massive amounts of personal information consolidated together in one place. Even if their only reason for doing so is advertising, I'm less interested in participating in systems that collect and store so much information on me. This probably should've been obvious before (people have certainly been saying similar things for a while), but recent revelations have made me more prone to agree. The problem, of course, is that some Google services are nearly irreplaceable, especially search. There are alternative search engines, but they simply aren't as good for the technical type searches that a programmer needs. Duck Duck Go is better than some older alternatives have been, but when using it I frequently find myself having to return to Google to actually find what I'm looking for. I wish them luck and hope very much they keep improving, as I'd like to use them, but so far I can't really.

by pavs 13y ago

waterphone 13y ago

I'm likely going to use their services in a reduced capacity whether they were complicit or not, simply because this incident has highlighted the risk of companies who store massive amounts of personal information consolidated together in one place. Even if their only reason for doing so is advertising, I'm less interested in participating in systems that collect and store so much information on me. This probably should've been obvious before (people have certainly been saying similar things for a while), but recent revelations have made me more prone to agree. The problem, of course, is that some Google services are nearly irreplaceable, especially search. There are alternative search engines, but they simply aren't as good for the technical type searches that a programmer needs. Duck Duck Go is better than some older alternatives have been, but when using it I frequently find myself having to return to Google to actually find what I'm looking for. I wish them luck and hope very much they keep improving, as I'd like to use them, but so far I can't really.