Re:Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google h...
by adventured on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:10AM
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I broadly agree. I've been willingly giving Google, via an account, as little data as necessary since I got a Gmail account ~14 years ago. I've never had a moment where I regretted what I've allowed them to have access to.
Like most people here with a Google Account, I've disabled as much of their harvesting as I can.
I've received an extraordinary amount of value from several of their products - such as maps, search, email, apps - and I never click on ads. The value received versus given disparity is beyond comically in my favor.
By comparison at this point I'd rate my value context with Facebook as net negative across my lifetime use of the product. The value has plunged the last four or five years. The first few years I used the product (after it became freely available to the masses), were slightly positive or quasi-benign at worst.
The difference in terms of product experience is largely that with Google, I don't deal with other assholes that routinely make my day worse, whether in the form of ugly politics, petty rage, or spam posts (whether commercial or personal posts).
Like most people here with a Google Account, I've disabled as much of their harvesting as I can.
I've received an extraordinary amount of value from several of their products - such as maps, search, email, apps - and I never click on ads. The value received versus given disparity is beyond comically in my favor.
By comparison at this point I'd rate my value context with Facebook as net negative across my lifetime use of the product. The value has plunged the last four or five years. The first few years I used the product (after it became freely available to the masses), were slightly positive or quasi-benign at worst.
The difference in terms of product experience is largely that with Google, I don't deal with other assholes that routinely make my day worse, whether in the form of ugly politics, petty rage, or spam posts (whether commercial or personal posts).