Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
by unholythree on Monday July 18, 2016 @03:36AM
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Even alot of people not caring doesn't inherently make it the right thing.
Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
by blowski on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:15AM
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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.
Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
by MichaelMoser123 on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:46AM
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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 ?
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.