I don't seem to have the same level of disdain for google than some have. You realize that we had other search engines, etc, before google, and google just won out because they were the best, right?
I agree that privacy loss is a concern, but my bigger concern is that very few people really worry about it as a concern. I think in the future, fully brainwashed "millenials" will wonder why anyone ever wanted privacy anyway. "Did they want to hide their racism and how they were oppressing minorities? " "Where they planning illegal activities or buying guns?""Maybe they were trying to limit the number of genders that could be recognized!"

It is the Brave New World come to full fruition.

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Originally posted by Crom:
I don't seem to have the same level of disdain for google than some have. You realize that we had other search engines, etc, before google, and google just won out because they were the best, right?
I agree that privacy loss is a concern, but my bigger concern is that very few people really worry about it as a concern. I think in the future, fully brainwashed "millenials" will wonder why anyone ever wanted privacy anyway. "Did they want to hide their racism and how they were oppressing minorities? " "Where they planning illegal activities or buying guns?""Maybe they were trying to limit the number of genders that could be recognized!"

It is the Brave New World come to full fruition.

Some people understand the brave new world to be the same old oppression. As such they have intense disdain for the nascent oppressor even if that oppressor began as the best servant.

If nothing else Google has convinced many people they can't live without it. This thread highlights that accomplishment.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

Some people understand the brave new world to be the same old oppression. As such they have intense disdain for the nascent oppressor even if that oppressor began as the best servant.

You can move to Tahiti. Government paid, of course.

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Originally posted by Crom:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

Some people understand the brave new world to be the same old oppression. As such they have intense disdain for the nascent oppressor even if that oppressor began as the best servant.

You can move to Tahiti. Government paid, of course.

If I move to Tahiti, it won't be because I'm escaping goggle.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
If nothing else Google has convinced many people they can't live without it. This thread highlights that accomplishment.

How so? There are a lot of search engines. I don't think anyone really NEEDS Google.

Am I wrong?

V.

I’m more worried about amazon. Some of their services would be hard to replace. They’ve been collecting data on me for twenty years.

So, Google is developing "smart home products"; capable of monitoring the users...

I simply don't use their so called "smart" products". I don't need them, and I never felt the urge to employ them in my home.

We have talked about this many times here on the forum. Every day more and more people are happy to give up a little more of their freedom and privacy to make their life easier and to feel safer.

It's a new world and those of us that complain about it will soon be in the minority. If we are not already.

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Originally posted by Bassamatic:
It's a new world and those of us that complain about it will soon be in the minority. If we are not already.

I'm not complaining about it. But I'm disinclined to go along with it any more than can reasonably be avoided.

There are two approaches: One is sns3guppy's solution: Stay as far away from all tech has humanly possible. The other way is to be informed, stay up-to-date, be cautious of what you use and what you reveal, and protect your assets and yourself to the degree possible. This is the course I choose.

Most people don't do either, because the former imposes a degree of inconvenience or sacrifice and the latter requires effort and constant vigilance.

Google provides a lot of services that many people consider useful, that cost users nothing out of pocket in terms of real money.

Allowing their lives to be monitored is now something of a currency. A large number of people seem to be perfectly willing to spend that currency, because they don't see it as really costing them anything. And at this point at least, they're probably right. The only real functional effect it's having on them is being marketed to, which they can easily ignore.

There are theoretical and possible future functional negatives to this, but at this point, the majority doesn't seem to care.

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Originally posted by braillediver:
If nothing else Google has convinced many people they can't live without it. This thread highlights that accomplishment.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
Some people understand the brave new world to be the same old oppression. As such they have intense disdain for the nascent oppressor even if that oppressor began as the best servant.

Indeed.

Well said.

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