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Another F for Alphabet: after abandoning Android tablets last year, Google retreats from C...
In more than 20 years of scouring the web and reading articles about the tech world, I've never seen anything like the following from Patrick Berlinquette. He is the only person I've read who fleshes out the euphemism Go-ogle hides behind, "monetizing users' data".
The rest of the media goes out of its way to keep the public from knowing Go-ogle makes 90% of its revenue from advertising through surveillance capitalism, otherwise, Mr. Berlinquette wouldn't have to go out of his way to explain it. Think about it, when have you ever heard anyone on TV tell you anything even remotely like what Patrick does in his 3-part (supposed to have a 4th part added later) series (see links below)? The answer's NEVER!
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When lazy journalists are pessimistic about Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, they say stuff like: “Even Orwell couldn’t have predicted that we’d willingly bring Big Brother into our own homes."What they fail to mention is our willingness to exchange privacy for convenience didn’t start with the advent of virtual assistants. It started in the early 2000s, when people—in return for having access to Google products and seeing more relevant ads—allowed Google to have all their data.
Today, Google provides marketers like me with so much of your personal data that we can infer more about you from it than from any camera or microphone.
~ Patrick Berlinquette from How Google Tracks Your Personal Information
Part 1: How Google Tracks Your Personal Information:
https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d
Part 2: How Google Marketers Exploit Your Discomfort:
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-2-micro-moments-9ba6e042a0c4
Part 3: How Marketers Use Redirect Ads to Deceive You:
https://medium.com/s/story/make-orwell-fiction-again-part-3-masters-of-our-fates-620a84792482
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Apple's shutdown of Facebook's internal apps was a light punishment for a repeat offender
I wish Apple would go after Goophabet in a similar, if not more assertive, manner.
What follows is the best description of how Goophabet works I’ve ever read. Patrick Berlinquette fleshes out what “monetizing users’ data” in simple and clear language. Why is this not all over the Internet?!
https://medium.com/s/story/the-complete-unauthorized-checklist-of-how-google-tracks-you-3c3abc10781d
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Google's Gmail, other services let third parties read user emails, report says
Wow, Nunzy, you nailed it.nunzy said:When those Google people chant "do no evil" over and over like a mantra, it has an effect. It plants it in them that they really should be doing evil.Google tried to kill iPhone. Does it get more evil than that?
Using the word “evil" in their mission statement, Goophabet points the company in exactly that direction, because our minds can only move toward things, not away. So, if Goophabet wanted to avoid being evil, they would have chosen a slogan or mission statement along the lines of “Be honorable”, “Be virtuous”, etc. But they didn’t!
Goophabet knows exactly what it’s doing. How else do they base 90% of their business upon using its users’ private information to make money, i.e., by generating revenue through surveilling its users?
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Tim Cook speaks out on Cambridge Analytica debacle, calls for stricter consumer privacy sa...
VAVOOM, Eric! I strictly avoid Goophabet and FB and use Better (by indie) tracker blocker on all my Apple devices.ericthehalfbee said:gatorguy said:
Paying for something doesn't make the "selling you" issue go away.maestro64 said:If you have not listen to the Apple insider pod cast on this subject, you should.
Everyone wants too blame Facebook since it is easier to blame someone else, but most need to look no further than their own mirror. I never bought in to the Facebook thing and always felt it would be bad. I also valued my privacy over getting free things.
I learned a few things from the pod cast, basically anyone who is pissed off your own information may have been used against you, you have to remember you got something free and you gave facebook the right to use your information the way they like. They never had to ask you if it was okay to allow third parts to use your information, you gave up that right by creating that account.
If you want to protect your information. Then stop using free stuff, and pay for your services.
Between retailers sharing your purchases, banks/credit card providers sharing your financial history, your cellular provider sharing your use data, the government sharing your driving, ownership, and legal history, pharmacy's sharing your prescription history, schools sharing your education history, and recent sharing issues even within Apple (China and likely Russia too, data sharing with publishers within Apple News and targeted ads within the App Store, and the new Apple supported Cloud Act that eases and simplifies the sharing of personal data with "friendlies") this whole conversation about "privacy" is little more than marketing fluff IMHO.
All those paid services don't "protect your privacy" if the provider sees value in sharing it, economically or politically, more so than in keeping it to themselves. Words are easy. Actions are just a tad more difficult.
Please. The sum total of everything you listed pales in comparison to what Google or Facebook know about you. Also funny how you slip Apple into your list to imply they are somehow on the same level. They aren't.
This is going to come back to bite Google and Facebook in the ass. Hard. It was only a matter of time before something happened that would bring privacy issues and data collection out into the public eye. Apple is going to come out of this smelling like a rose while Google and Facebook will smell like the piles of horseshit they are.
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Apple Watch Series 3 with & without cellular vs. Series 1: Which model is right for you?
Plus, there’s no real competition between the various dumb-pipes providers — they’re all charging the same for LTE service on AW, and with AT&T, it’s as much as LTE for iPad. They’re ripping off the consumer, plain and simple!mdriftmeyer said:
They're running out of ways to make money. It's the reason they are moving in the content producer angle of ownership.regurgitatedcoprolite said:The telcos’ absurd pricing for LTE capability, which is an approximate 50% tax on the watch over two years, keeps me from buying the LTE version. This reminds me of cell providers charging for texting when it costs them NOTHING.
