Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off

Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by drpixie on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @03:34AM (#30175185)

I call bulls*t here. Facebook has a long history of change-the-name-of-the-setting-and-the-new-flag-defaults-to-ON as a method of changing users' settings back to what facebook would prefer. Excuses aside, it looks like the same thing from google.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by prox on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @04:41AM (#30175536)

I have to agree. You don’t turn on stuff for people who turned it off. The default should be off, no matter where you are moving the new setting, which is fine all by itself, if informing the user. Golden rule is that the user is in control.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by Ensorceled on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @05:32AM (#30175867)

> The default should be off

If you split a control into two, more granular, controls, the default should be whatever I, the user, set the original control to be.

Having the default be a more privacy protecting setting is better than the default being the best for ad tracking, but really it should be what I wanted.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by bsenftner on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @07:41AM (#30176698)

> Golden rule is that the user is in control.

You've just identified that the Google Search operator is not Google's primary user, it is the advertisers that Google's entire existence is geared of appease, the search function is just how they collect our desires to feed back to their real users, the advertising industry.

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Re:Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who tu... by prox on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @11:26AM (#30179731)

That’s why I find it interesting how the original comment bends in mysterious ways to answer for what they did. It’s the dishonesty of it thats worse imo.

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