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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by senthil_rajasek on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:54AM (#22140010)
Name the privacy violating technology. How and please be specific. I can give examples of FB violating user privacy. Cambridge Analytica.
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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by newscracker on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:34PM (#22142690)
There are too many to list. An online search is a better idea.

Here are two instances:

Google was (and probably still is) tracking your location on Android even when you turned off location services and storing it against your account.

Google signed you in automatically into Chrome whenever you signed in to a Google property. This change removed the ability to keep your Chrome browsing data strictly locally. After some Internet outrage, this was reversed.

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Re:What can you use instead of Google and Facebook? by prophesi on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:25PM (#22140380)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_concerns_regarding_Goo...

They are the pioneers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism

For specific technologies: Their search engine. Their Ad network. Google Maps / StreetView. Android OS. Google Home. Google Nest. Google Chrome. Chromebooks.

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