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Please cite examples in which Google has demonstrated that they could not be trusted with information that they use to deliver targeted ads to you. Did they ev

by techrat 12y ago

Please cite examples in which Google has demonstrated that they could not be trusted with information that they use to deliver targeted ads to you. Did they ever pull a Facebook-esque social experiment by trying to limit what you saw in order to manipulate your feelings over the course of a day? Do they sell personal information about you for other companies to use however they please? Think about this a little bit before you respond with a generic, mouth frothing "BUT GOOGLES SELLS YER INFO" when they actually don't. They sell access to you when you are exposed to ads. Not access to your info.

TeMPOraL 12y ago
> Did they ever pull a Facebook-esque social experiment by trying to limit what you saw in order to manipulate your feelings over the course of a day? I'd also like to point out that the drama around Facebook's social experiment was totally overblown. People essentially mixed up what Facebook did (something not unlike an A/B test) with what some imagined Facebook in theory could do (silently but significantly influence emotional state of users), and after articles started calling this "manipulating your feelings" the Internet totally lost it. After all, the extent to which Facebook "manipulated your feelings over the course of a day" is much smaller than, say, 9gag's or that of a television ad. This is the same problem as the one you're complaining about here - generic accusations about totally overblown things.
ZanyProgrammer 12y ago
By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay!
- techrat 12y ago
  >By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay! An exact example of the false equivalence fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence

by techrat 12y ago

TeMPOraL 12y ago

> Did they ever pull a Facebook-esque social experiment by trying to limit what you saw in order to manipulate your feelings over the course of a day? I'd also like to point out that the drama around Facebook's social experiment was totally overblown. People essentially mixed up what Facebook did (something not unlike an A/B test) with what some imagined Facebook in theory could do (silently but significantly influence emotional state of users), and after articles started calling this "manipulating your feelings" the Internet totally lost it. After all, the extent to which Facebook "manipulated your feelings over the course of a day" is much smaller than, say, 9gag's or that of a television ad. This is the same problem as the one you're complaining about here - generic accusations about totally overblown things.

ZanyProgrammer 12y ago

By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay!

techrat 12y ago
>By your logic, since AFAIK the NSA hasn't ever targeted me specifically, then they must be a okay! An exact example of the false equivalence fallacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence