 SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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Re: google play reviews now require google+ said by tcope:I completely understand where you are coming from.
It's done so that people's "real" information is used when the rate an app and was done in an effort to (hopefully) slow down spammers and competitors down rating others apps. That is, an attempt to make the reviews more credible.
You can sign up for G+ and do nothing with the account. The _big_ problem I see is that now G+ taints several other of the Google products people use. For example... good luck using Picasaweb and not having it switch you over to G+ instead. Google will make it difficult to post just to Picasa without "sharing" over on G+, etc.
They attempted to fix 1 thing and broke about 10 other things.
I consider what Google is doing, similar to Facebook. Many sites link to FB, and want you to like them, so they can spam your FB page.
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kudos:2 | Kind of the same... but I'd also like to point out Google (G+) work in completly different ways toward revenue. G+ can stand on itself as the information used from G+ (and other Google services) are all angled toward ranking and ads on websites. Facebook relies on "friends" spamming "friends". To some this might be a subtle difference but I think it's actually pretty big when it comes to ones use of the actual service. Nothing annoys me more then a "friend's" post stating that they "like" some service. No they don't... they just wanted a kickback from that company at my expense! Websites are going to have ads if they are free. Do I really care if those ads are based on things that I like or might buy? If anything at least they are for something I'm probably interested in. |
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said by Snakeoil:I consider what Google is doing, similar to Facebook. Many sites link to FB, and want you to like them, so they can spam your FB page.
I've never had a company spam my page, ever.
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SnakeoilIgnore Button. The coward's feature.Premium
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| Back when I did farmville, they had events with companies. If you liked the companies page, you'd then get that special item unlocked in farmville.
Forget to unlike the company, and you tend to get their spam messages.
Ever since I've unliked farmville and other games, I still get their spam on my page. I tend to ignore it as I don't go to facebook as much as I used to.
Again, it's spam I, as the user agreed to.
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Kansas City, MO | said by Snakeoil:Again, it's spam I, as the user agreed to.
If you agreed to it, it's not spam. |
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| There's those of us who signed up for Gmail years ago. This wasn't in the original TOS. Under duress to keep an account, it's spam. Google had to discontinue Buzz. |
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