Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by nhebb on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:09PM (#17223336)

There is a YouTube update that's been pending on my Android for 1-1/2 years. I haven't agreed to it because YouTube decided that it needs access to my contacts. IMO, if Google needs to know who I communicate with in order to watch videos, they don't respect my privacy at all.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by curun1r on Sunday June 03, 2018 @08:30PM (#17223450)

On the other hand, a Google product (YouTube) is asking for permission to access information already available to another Google product (Android). If Google had no respect for your privacy, they wouldn't even ask.

Respect for privacy is a continuum and Google isn't on either extreme. I'd even go so far as to say that different parts of Google have different stances on privacy. People who try to make them into a monolith with a single binary stance on the issue are lacking nuance.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by nhebb on Monday June 04, 2018 @01:18AM (#17224876)

I don't think it's an issue that deserves nuance because it's not unreasonable that they should behave as a monolith with regard to privacy. It should be a top-down corporate policy.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by neop1x on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @04:40AM (#17235904)

I stopped using official Youtube long ago. I recommend SkyTube and NewPipe. They are awesome!

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