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Re:Project Tango by emehrkay on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:09PM (#7274584)
See. This is the stuff that I don't like. While Tango is cool, self-driving cars are cool, and Google Fiber is needed, I feel like Google is only doing these things to collect data about me.
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Re:Project Tango by ForHackernews on Thursday February 20, 2014 @07:35PM (#7274689)
> I feel like Google is only doing these things to collect data about me.

They are. Selling ads is basically the only way Google makes money.

It'd be nice if they at least offered the option to pay $X/year to use Google services without tracking. But I think that would be unlikely, because it would highlight the value of the data many people give away freely.

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