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[Palgi]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

[L_I_S]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

You're not looking at the big picture. It's a matter of privacy, they have your information without your consent. What if you wanted to make a drug or do something illegal? Do you still want google to have your information?

[Palgi]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

You're not looking at the big picture. It's a matter of privacy, they have your information without your consent. What if you wanted to make a drug or do something illegal? Do you still want google to have your information?

I got your point earlier, just wanted to tell you that those ads are the reason Google collects data. The more you click on ads, the more Google makes money... Only thing that they store is your webpage visit info and Google searches.
Why do you think it's a problem? Google is not a law reinforcement product. They don't have people analyzing the data. Computer's just scroll the data through and try to put the ads genres to match the genres of your most common visits.
 
Over 600 million people have Facebook. They have much more of our private data, for some even credit/bank account numbers. You give permissions to Game companies like Zynga to get all your information from Facebook in order to play their games. All game providers have been giving out all the private info about users to advertisement companies which I guess is illegal. You are not worried about Facebook giving out all your info, but if it's Google, then hell breaks loose?

[L_I_S]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

You're not looking at the big picture. It's a matter of privacy, they have your information without your consent. What if you wanted to make a drug or do something illegal? Do you still want google to have your information?

I got your point earlier, just wanted to tell you that those ads are the reason Google collects data. The more you click on ads, the more Google makes money... Only thing that they store is your webpage visit info and Google searches.
Why do you think it's a problem? Google is not a law reinforcement product. They don't have people analyzing the data. Computer's just scroll the data through and try to put the ads genres to match the genres of your most common visits.
 
Over 600 million people have Facebook. They have much more of our private data, for some even credit/bank account numbers. You give permissions to Game companies like Zynga to get all your information from Facebook in order to play their games. All game providers have been giving out all the private info about users to advertisement companies which I guess is illegal. You are not worried about Facebook giving out all your info, but if it's Google, then hell breaks loose?

Well the difference between your two examples is that one is given willingly and the other is not. With Facebook you can choose to give whatever information you want. I gave only my name(no address and that sort of stuff), I don't consider interests as something that needs to be kept private. Google collects everything you type, there is no option to not give information. Same thing with Zynga, you choose to give what ever information you want.

[Palgi]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

You're not looking at the big picture. It's a matter of privacy, they have your information without your consent. What if you wanted to make a drug or do something illegal? Do you still want google to have your information?

I got your point earlier, just wanted to tell you that those ads are the reason Google collects data. The more you click on ads, the more Google makes money... Only thing that they store is your webpage visit info and Google searches.
Why do you think it's a problem? Google is not a law reinforcement product. They don't have people analyzing the data. Computer's just scroll the data through and try to put the ads genres to match the genres of your most common visits.
 
Over 600 million people have Facebook. They have much more of our private data, for some even credit/bank account numbers. You give permissions to Game companies like Zynga to get all your information from Facebook in order to play their games. All game providers have been giving out all the private info about users to advertisement companies which I guess is illegal. You are not worried about Facebook giving out all your info, but if it's Google, then hell breaks loose?

Well the difference between your two examples is that one is given willingly and the other is not. With Facebook you can choose to give whatever information you want. I gave only my name(no address and that sort of stuff), I don't consider interests as something that needs to be kept private. Google collects everything you type, there is no option to not give information. Same thing with Zynga, you choose to give what ever information you want.

You have a point, but Google is just as voluntary as anything else. No one forces you to use Google and it doesn't have a monopoly state.

With Zynga it's not the same. Well it should be, but they have continued sharing your information to third parties, in this case advertisement companies. What prevents any other place from doing the same?
And Facebook collects almost as much data as Google. When you are logged in Facebook and surf around on pages that have Facebook features, it collects everything.

[L_I_S]

Chrome steals your information and sends it to Google. Everything you type in the google search bar gets sent to them and kept. After a few months of using Chrome, you'll start noticing random adds that aren't so random any more and more to your suiting.
Anyone who uses Chrome and searches football stuff try this. Search "new games of 2011", I bet you'll see football related games, depends on how many times you've searched for football stuff though.

How bad thing is it if they use your data just to focus more suitable ads for you? Google thinks it smart. Which ad you rather press, the one that interests and relates to you or the one that sells something complete shit for you?

You're not looking at the big picture. It's a matter of privacy, they have your information without your consent. What if you wanted to make a drug or do something illegal? Do you still want google to have your information?

I got your point earlier, just wanted to tell you that those ads are the reason Google collects data. The more you click on ads, the more Google makes money... Only thing that they store is your webpage visit info and Google searches.
Why do you think it's a problem? Google is not a law reinforcement product. They don't have people analyzing the data. Computer's just scroll the data through and try to put the ads genres to match the genres of your most common visits.
 
Over 600 million people have Facebook. They have much more of our private data, for some even credit/bank account numbers. You give permissions to Game companies like Zynga to get all your information from Facebook in order to play their games. All game providers have been giving out all the private info about users to advertisement companies which I guess is illegal. You are not worried about Facebook giving out all your info, but if it's Google, then hell breaks loose?

Well the difference between your two examples is that one is given willingly and the other is not. With Facebook you can choose to give whatever information you want. I gave only my name(no address and that sort of stuff), I don't consider interests as something that needs to be kept private. Google collects everything you type, there is no option to not give information. Same thing with Zynga, you choose to give what ever information you want.

You have a point, but Google is just as voluntary as anything else. No one forces you to use Google and it doesn't have a monopoly state.

With Zynga it's not the same. Well it should be, but they have continued sharing your information to third parties, in this case advertisement companies. What prevents any other place from doing the same?
And Facebook collects almost as much data as Google. When you are logged in Facebook and surf around on pages that have Facebook features, it collects everything.

Yea, I used to play their Facebook games before they started doing that. I think I'm a bit too cautious. There was a way for NSFW sites to make the play button in conjunction with "become a fan" function...not cool at all. This problem is solved by logging off, of course.

[Marko]

There is no privacy on internet. And there will never be privacy.

[Palgi]

There is no privacy on internet. And there will never be privacy.

[Adi]

There is no privacy on internet. And there will never be privacy.

+1

 

[Palgi]

You can make it snow in Youtube videos 

[2zef^^]

Just finished the fahrenheit game on ps2..it was abit easy,i will try it in hard mode!! 

[Adi]

This thread needs more activity.  People used to post-boost here before, let's do it again LOL.