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Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups by yamtaddle on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:17PM (#33910419)
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.
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Re:Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups by GeekyBear on Thursday December 08, 2022 @04:34PM (#33913791)
> 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...

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