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by mgreg 12y ago
True. There are lots of tools to block that, however, on the desktop anyway: 1. AdBlock Edge (or Plus, but Edge doesn't have loopholes): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
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by mgreg 12y ago
This article brings to light the business model differences Tim Cook highlighted again. Apple sells and makes money from devices while Google (and its OEMs) don't make much on the hardware but Google makes money from advertising fuele
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So Apple doesn’t collect as much data as Google. Maybe it should(gigaom.com)
2 points by mgreg 12y ago|2 comments
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by mgreg 12y ago
Agree with your points. What I was trying to say was that Google has created a competitive ecosystem like PC manufactures that will drive the price of handsets close to their cost thus depriving them of profit. In other words there is less
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by mgreg 12y ago
You may have a better understanding on this than I do as it's been awhile since I researched it. With apple much of the location info is actually kept on the device where it can actually make use of it locally rather than sent up to a
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by mgreg 12y ago
If you install the google apps on an iPhone it gets closer but certainly not out of the box. I don't have stats on maps app usage but apple maps is at least used by some folks rather than google maps which means google is not able to c
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by mgreg 12y ago
Google's strategy of driving down handset costs continues. They don't make money on the hardware or software but rather on the data collection and advertising from android devices. Apple, on the other hand, makes their money fro
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by mgreg 12y ago
If you're looking for tech news techmeme is about the best. http://techmeme.com
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by mgreg 12y ago
Credit to Google for creating such a powerful ecosystem and wresting increasing control of it. Amazing how the "open source" Android operating system has so many controls attached to it by Google. So we're now at a point whe
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by mgreg 12y ago
We have a wonderful system of checks and balances. It does, however still require competent people to run them. It so happens that in the legislative brace we have an intelligence oversight committee. It is chaired by none less than Senato
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by mgreg 12y ago
It's great to see additional attention on privacy while browsing from the desktop. It does feel, however, a little like we're fighting yesterday's war. With so much browsing / internet usage taking place on mobiles it
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by mgreg 12y ago
I've always looked for some harder data on how to tell the difference (effectively) from these different tools. Really appreciate the data you're providing here. My challenge is that I looked at this data and the web page on Gith
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by mgreg 13y ago
You hit the nail on the head here. I'd add that if part of persona's success is tied to getting email providers to adopt it by becoming an IdP then it's likely a flawed model. Why would google support/promote something t
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by mgreg 13y ago
I disagree. Facebook connect, google+ sing on, sign on with Twitter, and username / password reuse all demonstrate the demand from 'normal' users for a SSO solution. There is also a distrust of these companies and the lock th
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by mgreg 13y ago
And I'll 'third' the suggestion. Would love to see a SSO option that didn't bleed private info and wasn't linked to someone trying to make money from my data.
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by mgreg 13y ago
Would seem to make sense to take a step back and look at what Persona and Accounts can/should be good at. Persona could/should be an awesome single sign on service that doesn't leak personal data all over the place and provid