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A comment on Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal privacy complaint. Parent comment

Re:Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal p... by DannyBee on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:29PM (#14897250)
"he problem is that ones opinions regarding the entity responsible for issuing their paycheck are inherently less valuable"

No, they aren't, and it's horrendously biased to say that.

"So really, if you want a place of real discussion and debate, it's important to tie people to their companies in cases where they are participating in discussions about these companies. " No, it isn't, precisely because your premise is wrong. It's not just wrong, it's startlingly bad to me.

If your default position is "people's opinions are less valuable because they work for X", you really aren't going to do a good job of seeing multiple perspectives.

But given what you've written here, maybe you don't want to?

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Re:Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal p... by jessaustin on Monday July 31, 2017 @09:51PM (#14897329)
Eventually you'll find that making an issue of this, is a mistake. I was inclined to favor Google in this case, since TFA was published in the AMZN-CIA Post, but your unsavory contributions to this thread (not your original comment, but rather the clueless hole-digging that followed) have mostly changed my mind.
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Re:Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal p... by bmon on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @05:32AM (#14899011)
>I was inclined to favor Google... but your comments have changed my mind

That doesn't even make sense. The op made no argument for or against google in any of this thread, and has only tried to clarify that. Defending yourself against the Google hating bandwagon is clueless hole digging? Did you even read any of the op's comments?

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Re:Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal p... by pferde on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @01:38AM (#14898140)
"Unsavoury" does not mean the same as "something I do not agree with".
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Re:Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal p... by lawnchair_larry on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:48PM (#14904000)
You'll want to quote the entire statement, since what you've selectively quoted changes the meaning drastically.

People are less objective about an entity who is paying them. There is nothing controversial about this. I'm surprised someone like you would even convince themselves otherwise.

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