They started off as a search engine with the motto “don’t be evil”. Let’s get our facts straight before you try to talk me down like I don’t know anything.
Google was selling ads about 4 years before their IPO when the “Don’t Be Evil” motto was first revealed to the public. There is a “History of Google” page on Wikipedia if you want to brush up on the facts and timeline.
The fact remains that they’re now an advertising company. This was their monetization model and how they’ve amassed 90%+ of their wealth.
You can fiddle with your security however you want. I settle for “good enough” with things that aren’t Chrome, because my time isn’t worth analyzing each individual cookie on a page to get the info I am looking for. Firefox and uBlock Origin are a good enough layer of protection.
That doesn’t make them an advertising company. It was a search engine that sold ads to gain monetization. However at this point we are just splitting hairs over perspective so I’ll bury the hatchet there.
I can and I do encourage EVERYONE to fiddle with their security, not just because of Google but because eventually you’re going to stumble into some shitty website by accident and that fucker is going to pop you with a some random JavaScript that you already told your browser is totally fine to run automatically.
There is way more at stake here than a couple of tracking cookies, but it starts there. They need the permission to read, track and modify files on your machine in order to “sell” you the best advertisements. This means always having JavaScript turned on as well as allowing permissions which often are automatically accepted. This opens people up to a massive security risk with no reward. Google gets to walk away smiling while you’re scraping viruses and malware off your machines left and right.They aren’t here to educate or give you a choice, they just send you along after you pass GO and they get to collect the $200.
I’m sorry but no, it’s not okay to try to convince the public this is a good thing. I’d wager Google spent a pretty penny trying to figure out a way to get people like you to agree that isn’t so terrible when it’s so obvious what they are doing is absolutely unacceptable.
Google was selling ads about 4 years before their IPO when the “Don’t Be Evil” motto was first revealed to the public. There is a “History of Google” page on Wikipedia if you want to brush up on the facts and timeline.
The fact remains that they’re now an advertising company. This was their monetization model and how they’ve amassed 90%+ of their wealth.
You can fiddle with your security however you want. I settle for “good enough” with things that aren’t Chrome, because my time isn’t worth analyzing each individual cookie on a page to get the info I am looking for. Firefox and uBlock Origin are a good enough layer of protection.
That doesn’t make them an advertising company. It was a search engine that sold ads to gain monetization. However at this point we are just splitting hairs over perspective so I’ll bury the hatchet there.
I can and I do encourage EVERYONE to fiddle with their security, not just because of Google but because eventually you’re going to stumble into some shitty website by accident and that fucker is going to pop you with a some random JavaScript that you already told your browser is totally fine to run automatically.
There is way more at stake here than a couple of tracking cookies, but it starts there. They need the permission to read, track and modify files on your machine in order to “sell” you the best advertisements. This means always having JavaScript turned on as well as allowing permissions which often are automatically accepted. This opens people up to a massive security risk with no reward. Google gets to walk away smiling while you’re scraping viruses and malware off your machines left and right.They aren’t here to educate or give you a choice, they just send you along after you pass GO and they get to collect the $200.
I’m sorry but no, it’s not okay to try to convince the public this is a good thing. I’d wager Google spent a pretty penny trying to figure out a way to get people like you to agree that isn’t so terrible when it’s so obvious what they are doing is absolutely unacceptable.
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Nothing about that is in defence of Google.
Attacking ignorance isn’t the same as defending evil.