Choose whether Search can show you personal results based on your Google Account

Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by yosito on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:40AM (#27940407)

Considering that Google tracks you because you are the product they are selling, or rather, one sheep in the flock they are selling, removing the filter bubble from your search results seems like just a small, superficial fraction of the bubble Google has you in.

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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by anchpop on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:44AM (#27940438)

For me, I may be the product Google is selling, but they convince me to use Search anyway because it’s much better than the competition (yes I’ve tried DDG). And I can’t see any way that being tracked negatively affects my life, so it’s a trade I’m happy to make

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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by Wowfunhappy on Saturday July 24, 2021 @08:45AM (#27940440)

I wrote more here about why personalized results and recommendations really bother me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27668373

But if Google has the information and doesn't do anything with it... I guess I just don't care? Why should I care? I'm open to being convinced on this.

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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by ptero on Saturday July 24, 2021 @09:02AM (#27940566)

Google doesn't do anything with your information for this particular search shown to you. It can still be used to skew your other interactions with Google, it's partners and anyone else with whom Google decides to share the data it has on you.

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Re:Choose whether Search can show you personal results based... by missedthecue on Saturday July 24, 2021 @02:08PM (#27943141)

Google is renting my eyeballs by paying me with a great search engine. What's the actual harm in that.

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