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Re:De-Googleify Internet by bigbugbag on Saturday December 10, 2016 @04:10AM (#13144816)
That's because you omit to factor in the tracking and everything that comes with it. When you add advertising, profiling, censorship, surveillance and worse suddenly the experience is not so desirable anymore. We get tricked into it because the consequences of tracking are not immediately obvious and often delayed, (and a handful of cognitive biases) but it is still part of the user experience.

For the users where this downside is obvious because they've been jailed, silenced, murdered the user experience is arguably not better.

It's not only about tracking, Wanna talk about the user experience of google reader to cite one famous example of google's better user experience ?

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Re:De-Googleify Internet by pas on Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:40AM (#13145049)
> For the users where this downside is obvious because they've been jailed, silenced, murdered the user experience is arguably not better.

So we need a site that takes this into perspective and educates users.

The "true" value of tracking = [user benefits][number of users] - [mad regime oppressing people][oppressed people]

How bad is the oppressing? How great are the benefits? What's the correct mental model for evaluating this? What would happen without tracking? What's the value of the alternatives?

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