Quitting Google

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SnakeswithLasers

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With this privacy stuff going on, I'm considering quitting Google. I've found myself rather reliant on them lately as I use Chrome on my desktop, the Google app to do a lot of browsing on my iPad, have a Google phone number from back when it was "Grand Central, and my gmail account as my primary outside of email account. (And the only social network I've signed up for is Google+, but I don't use it.)

I feel like this is going to be pretty intrusive. Anybody have tips on living a Google free life on the internet? lol-bing.
 
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I was going to make a Jeeves (from askjeeves) joke until i visited the site and realized its just 'ask.com' now. Even Jeeves knew it was a pointless battle
 
SnakeswithLasers said:
With this privacy stuff going on, I'm considering quitting Google. I've found myself rather reliant on them lately as I use Chrome on my desktop, the Google app to do a lot of browsing on my iPad, have a Google phone number from back when it was "Grand Central, and my gmail account as my primary outside of email account. (And the only social network I've signed up for is Google+, but I don't use it.)

I feel like this is going to be pretty intrusive. Anybody have tips on living a Google free life on the internet? lol-bing.
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Huh? I thought their new privacy stuff was just consolidating all the data across each of their services into one. Is there something else I'm missing? I mean if that's the case, they already had your data to begin with. What changed?
 
There's no reason to leave. They're being as transparent as possible.

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If you think anything Google is doing is outrageous, think about what the network provider that allows you comment here knows.
 
How is it intrusive? It's almost the opposite.

If you're worried about bits of code reading your personal info, go to google.com/dashboard and delete any data you don't want them to have.
 
If it's not Google, someone else will be data mining you. You said you use an iPad, you don't think Apple is paying attention to what you're doing? If you shop at Amazon, you don't think they're finding ways to market directly to you more effectively by tracking your activities?

I really don't care how much data Google or any other reputable company gathers on me. If they're going to shove ads in my face, they might as well be as optimized as possible...
 
I read their new privacy policy. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary compared to similar companies.

What exactly about the policy is bugging you so much?
 
cajunator said:
Duckduckgo kind of sucks. I didnt see an image search feature on it either.
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There's no image search, yet; you have to bang either google images/bing images (!gi/!bi) if you're willing to commit to it.

Jeff-DSA said:
If it's not Google, someone else will be data mining you. You said you use an iPad, you don't think Apple is paying attention to what you're doing? If you shop at Amazon, you don't think they're finding ways to market directly to you more effectively by tracking your activities?

I really don't care how much data Google or any other reputable company gathers on me. If they're going to shove ads in my face, they might as well be as optimized as possible...
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Apple asks you if you want to opt-out during the installation of your iDevice.
 
My internet life is closely tied with google products. Phone, email, pictures etc etc.
Amazon and Google know me uncomfortably well.
 
So Microsoft's argument is that they "continue to meet the needs and interests of users." That's not even a complete thought, there is no information being transferred in that sentence.
 
nastynate409 said:
Can someone give me a quick version of what Google is doing? I'm lazy and I don't feel like reading a bunch.
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It was my understanding that each service under Google had it's own privacy and collection of data. Now all that data is just pooled together and shared across services. They aren't collecting new data; they're just changing how they store and reference it. That was my understanding.
 
I've been seeing a lot of this google fear mongering lately (that is; more than usual). Strange that it coincides with Microsoft's Office 365 thing.

I don't care if google scan my e-mails for keywords to make ads because: I don't notice the ads anyway.
 
Jeff-DSA said:
If it's not Google, someone else will be data mining you. You said you use an iPad, you don't think Apple is paying attention to what you're doing? If you shop at Amazon, you don't think they're finding ways to market directly to you more effectively by tracking your activities?

I really don't care how much data Google or any other reputable company gathers on me. If they're going to shove ads in my face, they might as well be as optimized as possible...
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the worst thing about Amazon is whenever someone else asks me about some tech or something and has the (usually Amazon) links handy and i check them out and give advice, a few days later i get that trusty Amazon email about great deals on bluetooth stereo headsets or whatever else i was looking at...
 
if you care so much about what google is doing, you should just quit the internet, as there is no "safe" place
 
Microsoft's rebuttal is crazy.

That being said, it'd be pretty easy for you to quit Google:
Google -> Bing
Chrome -> Chromium
Email -> buy your own domain
Google Phone Number -> there are eleven thousand VOIP services which cost maybe $20/year.
Google app -> what does this even do
Google+ -> lol, get a real social network
 
What's happening with the privacy stuff now? I'm confused on it, I just see it popup on Google/YouTube on every page. Isn't it supposed to be "better" for us?
 
At first I thought the OP was the guy who made a thread who worked for the president and wasn't sure if he wanted to move to CA and work for google, and now he wanted to quit because of privacy issues.
 
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