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Re:Why I Left Google by SpiderX on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @08:28PM (#3706162)
Why would I not want to share my personal information with advertisers. I certainly don't want to be marketed feminine hygiene products if I am a male. I also don't want to get offered oracle integration products if I am a Microsoft SQL shop. Targeted advertising is fine by me.
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Re:Why I Left Google by Digital_Data on Friday March 16, 2012 @03:05AM (#3712317)
Is it possible, that you haven't thought this to the end. When you don't get advertising of feminine hygiene products, because you are a male, it is also possible, that you get no insurance advertisings, because you do free climbing. More, it is possible, you don't get cheap insurance or even any insurance because you habe only searched for free climbing or clicked on advertisement for free climbing products.

You understand. The industrie washes your brain to only see the positive side effects and don't think about the negative ones.

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Re:Why I Left Google by beatle on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @11:56PM (#3706740)
Just because you're ok with it, doesn't mean other people are.
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Re:Why I Left Google by tcard on Thursday March 15, 2012 @02:33PM (#3709863)
Those people could, you know, not use Google. But I bet there aren't/won't be many of those in practice.
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