Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by MichaelMoser123 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:34PM (#12112964)

what about 'don't be evil'; have they silently changed the corporate motto, or is it now an 'opt-in' clause ? ( opt-in for the customers 'request that no evil be done to you', the customers are otherwise known as 'the product' https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/11/surveillance_... )

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by hornbaker on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:38PM (#12112975)

"Don't be evil if someone explicitly asks you to not be evil."

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by ionised on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:28AM (#12114206)

"Pretend you're not doing evil, but do it anyway".

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by arkadiyt on Sunday July 17, 2016 @11:34PM (#12113107)

Google replaced "Don't be evil" with "Do the right thing": https://www.engadget.com/2015/10/02/alphabet-do-the-right-th...

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by SquareWheel on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:43AM (#12114064)

That's not correct. Alphabet has the mantra "Do the right thing", but Google never changed theirs.

It's actually the very first line of their code of conduct.

https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by wyaeld on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:24AM (#12113359)

Do the right thing for customers, or for shareholders?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by blowski on Monday July 18, 2016 @02:22AM (#12113491)

Like all profit-making businesses, they try to balance the interests of both in the short term to maximise shareholder value in the long run.

A few Hacker News users being opposed to this doesn't make Google evil. A lot of people don't care, and I've met some who think it's a good idea.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by unholythree on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:36AM (#12113670)

Even alot of people not caring doesn't inherently make it the right thing.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by blowski on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:15AM (#12113966)

True, but nor is the opposite true - that a lot of people caring somehow makes it the wrong thing.

I can choose where to draw the line. I care more about privacy than most of my friends, so I use a browser that helps that while they use Chrome because that's their choice. Google isn't preventing that from happening, so what they're doing isn't unethical, evil or wrong.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by MichaelMoser123 on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:46AM (#12115328)

so in the beginning Google has declared to have valued such things as customer privacy (the "don't be evil" motto seems to indicate that), my guess is that this was a deliberate strategy in order to gain trust and influence.

Nowadays all that seem to be less of a priority for Google; now what happens with the shareholder value when a large proportion of the customers again start to value their privacy over convenience ?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by blowski on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:07PM (#12116405)

If that happens, then they will either change or go out of business. But so far, it doesn't seem to be happening (though I wish it would).

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