Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
by GeekyBear on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @07:53PM
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> (Although Google does indeed use your search history for ad targeting.)
Yes, and it's not the advertising part that is evil. It's the part where they spy on every aspect of your life because doing so makes ad sales more profitable.
Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
by yamtaddle on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:17PM
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Point of order: their inline-ad-placement on search results is evil. It exists to trick the unwary, including vulnerable people like the elderly, sometimes into landing on scams, thinking they're legitimate because Google presented them as top-level search results.
Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups
by GeekyBear on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:34PM
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> Point of order: their inline-ad-placement on search results is evil.
I don't think that is necessarily evil, but it certainly is embarrassing for Google since Google used to make fun of competing search engines for that exact behavior back when Google was still the underdog.
Spying on everyone's credit/debit card transaction data, on the other hand, is definitely evil.
> as Google said in a blog post on its new service for marketers, it has partnered with “third parties” that give them access to 70 percent of all credit and debit card purchases
https://adwords.googleblog.com/2017/05/powering-ads-and-anal...
This is still true. You basically never see personalized ads on search, since getting a contextual ad for cruises when searching for programming answers probably isn't going to end up with many clicks. Instead, it's only really 'Google Ads' (AdSense on other websites) and YouTube where personalized ads result in higher CPMs.
(Although Google does indeed use your search history for ad targeting.)