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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by system2 on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @12:29AM (#18072791)
Yes, that starts with "leaving it". Though some found my comment above irritating, the more people use these apps or try to make it "their way", these corps won't go anywhere.

Yes, either you take it, or leave it. Imagine everyone leaving google today. They can't make money. People made them rich, people can take them down. If genpop doesn't understand, you have to find your own ways to navigate thru the internet because google won't go away anytime soon.

I would love to hear your opinion about how to take google down, without making people "leave it".

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by ax0ar on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:17AM (#18073858)
>Yes, that starts with "leaving it"

You're right, but the percentage of Google users aware of how evil they are is probably less than 0.5%.

An overwhelmingly large percentage of users won't care about what could happen as long as nothing happens directly affecting them. Mass surveillance companies like Google, Facebook know this and take advantage of it.

Technology activists aren't strong enough to start a wave that would lead to people abandoning these evil corps..

Also, as others mentioned, they eat up all competition.. so there aren't really any good options left apart from Google products in areas they compete.

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:47AM (#18075364)
> Most people aren't persnickety, anal, border line autistic nerds so Google/Facebook knowing who they know or where they are, when they're using software to tell their friends where they are or are using maps to literally work out where they are right now is just not an issue.

Please don't insult people for caring about privacy.

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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by superflyguy on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:27PM (#18079401)
Not "caring about privacy"; having retarded notions that you can walk around with a tracking device like one might expect a criminal be forced to carry and somehow still have privacy by deleting this cookie or logging out of that service.
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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by axiometry on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:56AM (#18073108)
Or you can take some and leave some via regulation.
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Re:Google Maps won't let you save home address without allow... by gaius on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @01:38AM (#18073045)
Yes, either you take it, or leave it

That is a false dilemma, because there are more than two choices. To many of us, the third option is the one we choose.

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