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> Google have taken the Open Source ideology and bastardized it to fit their commercial needs. Ah you're one of the people that thinks open source also comes w

by DCKing 12y ago

> Google have taken the Open Source ideology and bastardized it to fit their commercial needs. Ah you're one of the people that thinks open source also comes with a mandatory ideology. That it's not good enough if source is released for everyone unless there are also other strings attached. We can leave this in disagreement then. > Feel free to explain this clause in Google's privacy policy. You have to redefine a lot of words if "sharing aggregated non-personally identifiable information" (e.g. statistics of "how many people aged 18-25 are seeing my ad?") is to mean the same as "selling your data". https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ > We don’t sell users’ personal information.

ksk 12y ago
>Ah you're one of the people that thinks open source also comes with a mandatory ideology. Now, who is redefining words? >That it's not good enough if source is released for everyone unless there are also other strings attached. Where can I find the source for those binary blobs? >You have to redefine a lot of words if "sharing aggregated non-personally identifiable information" is to mean the same as "selling your data" Thankfully, no redefinition is needed. That information is MY DATA. Sharing DOES NOT exclude monetary transactions. My general experience has been that companies do not share anything of value for free. >(e.g. statistics of "how many people aged 18-25 are seeing my ad?") e.g. aggregated statistics of people aged 20-21 living in the zipcode XXXXX who have lung cancer. Oops.. turns out, its just one person. >We don’t sell users’ personal information. Tell that to Google. They're contradicting themselves.
sp332 12y ago
It's not an ideological problem, it's a practical one. If most of the Android software running out there depends on proprietary blobs, then I lose many of the benefits of open-source software including running it on my own hardware.

by DCKing 12y ago

ksk 12y ago

>Ah you're one of the people that thinks open source also comes with a mandatory ideology. Now, who is redefining words? >That it's not good enough if source is released for everyone unless there are also other strings attached. Where can I find the source for those binary blobs? >You have to redefine a lot of words if "sharing aggregated non-personally identifiable information" is to mean the same as "selling your data" Thankfully, no redefinition is needed. That information is MY DATA. Sharing DOES NOT exclude monetary transactions. My general experience has been that companies do not share anything of value for free. >(e.g. statistics of "how many people aged 18-25 are seeing my ad?") e.g. aggregated statistics of people aged 20-21 living in the zipcode XXXXX who have lung cancer. Oops.. turns out, its just one person. >We don’t sell users’ personal information. Tell that to Google. They're contradicting themselves.

sp332 12y ago

It's not an ideological problem, it's a practical one. If most of the Android software running out there depends on proprietary blobs, then I lose many of the benefits of open-source software including running it on my own hardware.