How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook

Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by chatmasta on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @09:11AM (#16265368)

The guy is not an ex-Google employee. This event was named in the Damore lawsuit as evidence of discrimination against political views because all he was guilty of was blogging things someone at Google had a problem with.

It doesn’t make you uncomfortable to know that even if you’ve had no previous interactions with Google, you may be tracked and added to a list of undesirables? Who controls the list, who has power to add people to it, and what else are they doing with this list? What if they’re looking at his search history too? Would that be okay?

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Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by zimpenfish on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:28AM (#16266022)

Google are a private company with no requirement (barring legal strictures) to allow anyone onto their campus. If they want a list of undesirables, they can have one. Same as you've probably got one for your house.

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Re:How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook by gnud on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @10:14AM (#16265883)

As long as the list is used for "people who will/won't be invited to speak at Google HQ", and not used to influence search results, I have zero problems with it.

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