Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations
by partiallypro on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:30PM
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When I first read this was I was troubled, and I am certainly a Google critic, but it seems to specifically say this is for your usage only. It's not being used for their ad network or for them to see behavior. It's used in the same manner as tracking packages, etc. If or when they start using this for their own internal usage to see use purchasing behavior, and telling adwords customers what purchase/products were popular so they could convert, that's when I'd have a major problem with this. As it stands now, I don't see it as a major problem.
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Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations
by krishanath on Thursday September 27, 2018 @11:50PM
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If a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death. So today you don't see a major problem. Even though every single purchase you made in your entire life is being logged in a central database that's out of your control. OK. You are slowly being brought to a boil, and you're not perceiving the danger.
Re:See all your purchases, subscriptions and reservations
by Aunche on Friday September 28, 2018 @12:11AM
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The legend of the frog being boiled slowly is actually completely false (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog). The frog will simply jump out when it notices that it gets too hot. Likewise, it's pretty easy to see the distinction between Google using information to help people vs. using information for profit.