A thought:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think if we really think about it, Google is just adware.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
I think people tend to get too caught up in the whole ‘privacy’ thing, when the real issue here the advertising<\/em> thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Perhaps in the earlier more utopic days, Google was supposed to be a tool to ‘democratize the world’s information and make it useful’. Now the new modus operandi is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let us use tactics to maximally increase our advertising revenue, which happens by tracking certain<\/em> user behaviors to ‘better serve them’ with more ‘accurate’ ads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Thus my critique of Google is mostly an aesthetic thing; I hate advertisements, pop up ads, banner ads, and almost all forms of ads. Worse when I try to watch a YouTube video and I have to watch some lame ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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