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People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers. Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, th
by erddojo 12y ago
People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers.
Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, therefore by working there you may not be required to also sacrifice yours for a paycheck.
Flip side; there are those who believe ads aren't evil. Google builds a lot of interesting tech. It's probably a great place for engineers. But one look at their financial reporting and it's still evident that advertising pays the bills.
- Oletros 12y agoThe products is ad space, not the users
- Apachez 12y agoThis pic comes to mind: http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/SocialMediaAndYou.jpg http://www.lolwithme.org/wp-content/uploads/SocialMediaAndYo...
- Oletros 12y agoFunny pic, but it is the same wrong claim
- erddojo 12y agoIf the product was the ad space, Google would be out of business. The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.
- hahainternet 12y ago> The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers. What shit, show me how I can buy some. Show me some that someone has bought.
- fennecfoxen 12y agoIt's a rental.
- Oletros 12y agoCan you show me how can I rent that data?
- fennecfoxen 12y agohttp://www.google.com/ads/new/ http://www.google.com/ads/new/
- Oletros 12y agoNo, in that link I can't rent any data, there I can buy ad space.
- gress 12y agoThe data is part of the rental - you can only use it tot target your ads.
- Oletros 12y agoPlease, point where in the Ads documentation where it explain that USER data can be seen by advertisers.
- gress 12y agoIt can't. It is processed on the advertisers behalf by Google. If Google allowed it to actually be downloads, their competitors would be able to use it, so the processing is done within Google. That doesn't make it any less of a product for advertisers.
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- Oletros 12y ago> The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers Can you put just one link that show that Google sell data to advertisers?