Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by millstone on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:07PM (#17222978)

It's insidious how Google has redefined "privacy" from "what's yours is yours" to "what's yours is ours, as long as we don't share it."

Microsoft is moving fast along the same path.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by not_kurt_godel on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:14PM (#17224294)

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> MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network.

They're trying pretty damn hard with Windows 10, which by default collects pretty much every keystroke you make. That data in turn gets shared and sold to advertisers - see MS's own privacy page: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by wbillingsley on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:03PM (#17224248)

I'm not convinced they are -- the models are entirely different. Google receives the vast bulk of its revenue from advertising based on mining what they know about you. Microsoft receives the vast bulk of its funding from companies using its systems and paying them to run them well.

MS do not tie an analytics product (on most sites around the world) into the world's largest personal-data-mining and advertising network.

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