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Re: What about Google?
said by TKJunkMail  :Google targets consumers the same way with behavioral targeted advertising. The protests therefore seem to be targeting the method of data collection rather than the data collection itself. One could argue that Google data collection is voluntary. But given the breath of Google data collection from their own sites and from all their partner web sites, and the near monopoly that Google now has in ad delivery, that distinction is fairly irrelevant. I 100% agree, and I have said the same thing numerous times. Yes, the method of data collection is different with Nebuad, but the end result is exactly the same. As shocking as it might seem (given that this is a "technology" website), I really dont think the majority of people here realize that Google also serves ads by tracking your data. I suppose its possible that these same people always though it was a "coincidence" that targeted ads always appear next to their web searches, but wake up, Google does this too!
Then there are those who say "Google is free, you can use another search engine". This is a fairly uninformed statement, as all search engines (the major ones at least) do the exact same thing. The bottom line is that nothing you do on the internet is anonymous these days. Those who think it is are only fooling themselves.
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If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
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