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  Post #1 (permalink)   01-25-2012, 08:44 AM
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What's your take on Google's new privacy policy beginning March 1st? I saw a recent poll (12000 voters) where 66% voted that they would cancel their Google accounts.
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  Post #2 (permalink)   01-25-2012, 11:04 AM
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I saw a recent poll (12000 voters) where 66% voted that they would cancel their Google accounts.
What does exactly mean by this ?
 
 
 


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  Post #3 (permalink)   01-25-2012, 11:28 AM
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I feel like it is the necessary and unavoidable next step for them, logistically-speaking, if they are trying to re-organize the company around Google Plus, which they are trying to integrate across all of their services, from apps to search.

I like that they are being upfront about it, instead of changing it behind your back, like Facebook often does.

“In short, we’ll treat you as a single user across all our products, which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience,” said Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy for product and engineering.

While I might not like it, I am not going to be disabling my account, and I want to see 66% of people do it. No matter where they go, they'll be tracked sooner or later. These are the same people who check themselves in on Facebook and foursquare.

The only thing I don't like is that even though I never signed up for and never wanted to register on YouTube, they still incorporated Google account into it. On top of it, they keep user history of videos watched. There has got to be an option somewhere that allows you to stop that, but I haven't found it yet.
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  Post #4 (permalink)   01-25-2012, 11:42 AM
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Google has a reputation of collecting behavioral information to better their services and to gain more of the market share. This how their products excel and grow.

It is all upto you! how and to what limit you use their services.

As google has generalized one account all over their services, you either need to confuse them with your information or live in a cave
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I have never seen any great benefit to registering with any of the Google entities so I am surfing anonymously as far as they are concerned.
They may be tracking my IP address to target advertising but I don't really care. I have never bought a product based on a Google advertisement.
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Google has become the God. No other go for us.
 
 
 


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  Post #7 (permalink)   03-19-2012, 08:49 AM
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Not loading for me at the moment, but it seems to not be good from what I hear.

Eitherway, I will never sign up to google and never have.
I have always been against it and begging to be against facebook.

You will see things changing, it already is changing.
The way the internet works, everything is targeted per your activity, not just advertising, but many of other things.
 
 
 


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  Post #8 (permalink)   03-22-2012, 07:01 AM
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I think this Google's Privacy Policy is awful... They just want to earn money on us.. I also think that they had already checked the search history, because I'm receiving adverts concerning the topic I am looking up the most often.
 
 
 


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it may lost many user since it become useless....
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