Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)
by dannyw on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:26PM
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The old Google Toolbar had a warning with big red font saying “THIS IS NOT YOUR USUAL YADA TADA”. It explained the page rank feature sends what domains you visit to Google for checking their pagerank, and how Google processed that specific information.
It gave you the choice to enable or disable, in equally sized buttons.
Today, you instal Chrome and are immediately asked to sign in without being aware this “syncs” your browsing history to Google.
Re:An update on Better Ads (Chrome native ad-blocking)
by mschuster91 on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @08:25PM
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> They take hostage Gmail accounts.
> I don't know if all the good they have done outweighs the bad.
Well, I wouldn't call Google outright sinister. That's just what happens when capitalism goes unchecked. Too bad that even the EU, even the mothership of regulations Germany, didn't have the guts to put some red lines (and consumer rights!) towards Google.
Now they are on the same level as Microsoft. The Orweillian attempts at redefining language is... not surprising. This is beyond regular corporate-speak.
Their search results are full of spam.
They take hostage Gmail accounts.
It seems that everything "cool" they do... has a sinister, ulterior motive.
I don't know if all the good they have done outweighs the bad.