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Nice summary of Google. But in their defence, you'd have to add something that is given to the surveiled people, because Google does. It lures. Maybe, free cine
by madez 11y ago
Nice summary of Google. But in their defence, you'd have to add something that is given to the surveiled people, because Google does. It lures. Maybe, free cinema would a good analogy. And when you enter that free Google cinema everything about you will be recorded, analyzed, connected and sold to the highest bidder. Creeeeeeepy
- userbinator 11y ago"If you're not paying for it, you're the product being sold."
- madez 11y agoThat's simply not true, see Gnu or Linux.
- userbinator 11y agohttps://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-amazon-ads-and-data-leaks https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/10/privacy-ubuntu-1210-am...
- madez 11y agoUbuntu != Linux and Ubuntu != Gnu.
- kuschku 11y agoAs a developer for one open source project: In my case, I am doing it because the users are happy about it. The users satisfaction with how the product works is my pay for spending all my weekends coding – and it’s definitely worth it.
- throwaway2048 11y agoGoogle analytics isn't giving anything to end users at all, plenty of paid sites use it too for instance. I find it frankly shocking so many sites use it without any seeming consideration at all, its essentially completely selling out your users for a slick analyitics package. Where exactly do they suppose such precise and accurate data comes from when they open the management pages.