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Re:Are you tired of being google's guinea pig? by bls on Thursday May 10, 2007 @06:25AM (#21003)
You switched from Google to Yahoo for privacy reasons? Yahoo! has already demonstrated their total lack of ethics regarding privacy by helping the Chinese jail thought criminals. Whereas, Google has designed all its systems and its business models to ensure that it does not need to cooperate with horrible regimes.

Also, Yahoo! happily shared its users' information with the U.S. government upon request (when not even legally obligated to do so), whereas Google went to court to fight for its users' privacy.

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Re:Are you tired of being google's guinea pig? by rksprst on Thursday May 10, 2007 @03:46PM (#21133)
I'm a lot less worried about having my information given away to the government than I am of a company trying to create a database of all the data in the world. Which is what google seems to want to do.

Yes, yahoo has given away information before (in China). But I'd still rather switch to a company that does not want to collect every single piece of data about me (be it my email, rss feeds, search history, or even the files on my computer - google desktop search).

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Re:Are you tired of being google's guinea pig? by MobileDigit on Thursday May 10, 2007 @10:45PM (#21229)
You're fine with information being given to thieves and murderers but not to a company that wants to improve your experience so you'll voluntarily give it more money?
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