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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by kuschku on Friday September 09, 2016 @07:29PM (#12466770)
No, they do that in addition to giving information to advertisers.

If any company gives any information about me to a third party, that's already wrong.

And while advertisers don't get the data directly, they get it indirectly. They get the user specification (age, gender, rough location) they bid on, and the IP, and several advertisers even used that to track you between different websites their AdWords ads were shown on.

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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by bduerst on Saturday September 10, 2016 @03:23PM (#12470534)
They don't give your information, directly or indirectly, to advertisers. Using aggregated information for ad targeting isn't "selling" information to third parties, no matter how hard you try to loosely redefine the semantics of the word.

I'd ask how you think they are giving data to foreign governments, but I have a feeling you'll try to redefine "mandatory court subpoenas for individuals" as the same.

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