[citation][nom]greenrider02[/nom]It's a good thing for people who don't know better... just the same as they make car companies enforce safety standards, because you don't expect everyone who drives a car to even remotely know how everything in it works.At the same time, this is going to hurt a lot of advertising and info-selling businesses that make big bucks on the web doing their morally ambiguous info-trading.I'm just waiting for someone to start throwing out the "job-killer" label...[/citation]
people make full time jobs because they sell advertising, and google gives us mountains of services because of ads, i dont care if where i brows the web is tracked so long as its just the places i go and not the content i seak out, so long as i get to use google services, and many websites for free due to the ads.
[citation][nom]Genericuser[/nom]Except pretty much every company is low enough to be dealing our information, so there really aren't any "other" companies to do business with. Should I just not ever go on any website ever again? Because they're pretty much all tracking you.[/citation]
google makes a few extra $ because they sell my info, they give me a decent chat program and 10 person video chat, for free... they single handedly forced email into the gb range, and are also giveing free web hosting. they help every one on the internet, and they make their money through ads and selling info... i see it as a worthy cause.
[citation][nom]bunnywanny[/nom]In the mean time, i will just use Firefox with add-ons to protect my privacy: Noscript, Ghostery, Adblock, Better Privacy, WOT, Flagfox, and FlashBlock. Much safer than Google Chrome.[/citation]
i use no script because many adds that arent google eat the crap out of system resources, and flash block because it had a habbit of useing WAY to much resources... beyond that, you are just paranoid.
[citation][nom]tlmck[/nom]How about some compensation for the use of "my" personal data. Either that or allow me to file theft charges.[/citation]
do you have to pay for google?
youtube?
how about gmail? they made using gb the standard of email, they also have free pop3 or something like that, untill gmail, that was a pay service.