I don't support the parent's use of name calling, but it is not necessarily the case that criticism of another's enthusiasm for a vender implies the critic also has enthusiasm for a vendor. Some of us dislike all of the dominant venders.

(Edit: And having the position that 'mere avoidable advertising' can be avoided is also not necessarily evidence of fanboyism)

The connotation is a thinly-veiled promotion of Google with skewed reasoning; that tracking you so they can advertise to you is benign, and we should submit to constantly being tracked, because that harms us less than patents and lock-in, without giving any reason why patents and lock-in are bad.

Tracking me and spamming me immediately makes my experience worse, with almost no exceptions (I've never seen an ad that was relevant or made me buy anything, but I often experience uncomfortable breaches of privacy), but patents and lock-in are often used to provide me with tangible benefits, with the only downside being that other companies are prevented from easily providing those same benefits.

No, that 'connotation' isn't present in the parent's actual words.

Click on 'parent' until the context of the thread becomes apparent.