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« Reply #15 on: February 23, 2012, 05:21:21 AM »

It's not a very sneaky way to sell on data if they shout quite loudly that they're doing it - and most people have to actively opt in by switching on their web history anyway.

yeah, that's pretty much my take on it. they're going to do stuff that I don't really care about with my data but only if I make the effort to go to a page that I didn't know existed and press a button turning on a thing

hardly sneaky and I'm not sure why it makes them scum


I might be wrong but isn't this what they're going to bring in on March 1st. Might just be the reason why it's not activated yet.
True they still get to score Evil Points (also known as iPoints) if we check after 1st March and they've switched people's web history on - my impression is they won't, but worth checking when we get there.
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« Reply #16 on: February 23, 2012, 12:43:08 PM »

so if I turn it on I get ads for stuff that I want

I still don't get what the downside to it is
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« Reply #17 on: February 23, 2012, 12:45:11 PM »

so if I turn it on I get ads for stuff that I want

I still don't get what the downside to it is

I think the point is they could pass it on to anyone

So whereas Google will send you ads that it looks like you're interested in - other companies might just send you ads for anything they get paid for.
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« Reply #18 on: February 23, 2012, 01:05:56 PM »

so if I turn it on I get ads for stuff that I want

I still don't get what the downside to it is

I think the point is they could pass it on to anyone

So whereas Google will send you ads that it looks like you're interested in - other companies might just send you ads for anything they get paid for.


but how is that different from me just getting random ads? I still don't know if I'm completely missing the point of if kin is the world's biggest drama queen
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2012, 02:04:45 PM »

Just assume everything you do is watched/gathered/passed around.

You wont get shocked or dissapointed this way.
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« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2012, 11:23:40 AM »

I just dont understand any of this google changing policy stuff.. should I be worried?
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« Reply #21 on: March 04, 2012, 06:58:46 PM »

It's nothing they haven't been doing before. Others do it to a much bigger extent anyway.
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