Re:Introducing Android 9 Pie
by confounded on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @04:55PM
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> Ironically, there's probably no organization on the planet that you should trust more with your personal information than Google
Thank you for the suggestion. We likely have different ideals about what a healthy version of the future looks like.
> ...selling your information to third parties...
Not what I said. Google’s business model is to extract and store as much information about consumers as possible, enrich and correlate it, and then financially exploit it. Currently the best way they’ve found to do that is targeted advertising.
By doing so, they make this extremely revealing data available to every government in every jurisdiction in which they operate, which is pretty much all of them. They work to normalize this surveillance as inevitable and unstoppable.
Additionally, while it would currently run counter to their business model to sell raw data, there’s nothing to legally stop them, if that business model should change.
Just like Facebook, Google are now very close to market saturation. To keep growth up, they’ll need to increase revenue per user. How will they do that? We don’t know. But there’s a relatively high chance that I’ll like it even less than what they’re doing now.
Thank you for the suggestion. We likely have different ideals about what a healthy version of the future looks like.
> ...selling your information to third parties...
Not what I said. Google’s business model is to extract and store as much information about consumers as possible, enrich and correlate it, and then financially exploit it. Currently the best way they’ve found to do that is targeted advertising.
By doing so, they make this extremely revealing data available to every government in every jurisdiction in which they operate, which is pretty much all of them. They work to normalize this surveillance as inevitable and unstoppable.
Additionally, while it would currently run counter to their business model to sell raw data, there’s nothing to legally stop them, if that business model should change.
Just like Facebook, Google are now very close to market saturation. To keep growth up, they’ll need to increase revenue per user. How will they do that? We don’t know. But there’s a relatively high chance that I’ll like it even less than what they’re doing now.
> ... dumb
:)