So who stopped using Google after their privacy policy went in effect?

[adlep]

^^^

DuckDuckGo's where it's at.

lol...
few years from now DDG becomes google and has the same privacy policies.

 

[DCal430]

I'm gonna need a link for that.

http://friendlybit.com/js/geolocation-and-google-maps/

While it claims browser only sends this wifi info if you click accept, how do we know this is true. For all I know the browser sends it anyways and this message asking me if I would like to send Google this info is just some show to make me think it was my choice.

 

[Miramonti]

I was on Scroogle for a long time til it died, now I've duckduckgone.

 

[lothar]

http://friendlybit.com/js/geolocation-and-google-maps/

While it claims browser only sends this wifi info if you click accept, how do we know this is true. For all I know the browser sends it anyways and this message asking me if I would like to send Google this info is just some show to make me think it was my choice.

If your browser is broadcasting that information without your permission, then you need a different one.
Stop using crappy browsers. All the major browsers(IE, Firefox, and Chrome) supports that option.

And take off your tinfoil hat while you're at it.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

http://friendlybit.com/js/geolocation-and-google-maps/

While it claims browser only sends this wifi info if you click accept, how do we know this is true. For all I know the browser sends it anyways and this message asking me if I would like to send Google this info is just some show to make me think it was my choice.

So your fear of Google is based on almost no evidence, personal beliefs with no backing thought, and finally, something that would have to originate from the BROWSER ITSELF and not Google.

 

[DCal430]

If your browser is broadcasting that information without your permission, then you need a different one.
Stop using crappy browsers. All the major browsers(IE, Firefox, and Chrome) supports that option.

And take off your tinfoil hat while you're at it.

Chrome is made by google, it might just send that info anyways even if you click no. Just saying, we cannot be sure.

As far as we also know google could have paid M$ and Firefox to make the browser send the info even when you click no. We as the user are powerless.

 

[DCal430]

It has also come to my mind that google could be imputing malicious code into our computers to gather this information. We just don't know.

 

[lothar]

It has also come to my mind that google could be imputing malicious code into our computers to gather this information. We just don't know.

How do you know Anandtech, Microsoft, Bing, Apple, DuckDuckGo, or any other company doesn't do this? We just don't know.

If you want to feel safe, unplug the ethernet cable from your computer and remove any wireless network adapter you have connected.
/tinfoil hat

 

[Red Squirrel]

False.
I have several GMail accounts.
None of them are linked up with Google+. Never have, and never will be.

On the google home page click on the "+you" link. Your very own Google+ profile, your friends will be there and all. How does google know who your friends are? No clue. Even if you never entered them anywhere such as gmail (I don't use Gmail) they somehow know who they are. Some may be slightly inaccurate, but most will be people you know IRL or who you interacted with.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Chrome is made by google, it might just send that info anyways even if you click no. Just saying, we cannot be sure.

As far as we also know google could have paid M$ and Firefox to make the browser send the info even when you click no. We as the user are powerless.

It would be interesting to use a packet sniffer while using Chrome to see if it does any of that. I doubt it, but on the other hand, if they did, it would not really surprise me.

 

[lothar]

On the google home page click on the "+you" link. Your very own Google+ profile, your friends will be there and all. How does google know who your friends are? No clue. Even if you never entered them anywhere such as gmail (I don't use Gmail) they somehow know who they are. Some may be slightly inaccurate, but most will be people you know IRL or who you interacted with.

I'm logged in and did exactly as you mentioned, Google+ account profile not found.
But then again, I wasn't stupid enough to click the red "Upgrade" button like everybody else.

 

[lothar]

On the google home page click on the "+you" link. Your very own Google+ profile, your friends will be there and all. How does google know who your friends are? No clue. Even if you never entered them anywhere such as gmail (I don't use Gmail) they somehow know who they are. Some may be slightly inaccurate, but most will be people you know IRL or who you interacted with.

I'm logged in and did exactly as you mentioned, Google+ account profile not found.
But then again, I wasn't stupid enough to click the red "Upgrade" button like everybody else.

*Crickets*

 

[slayernine]

In Soviet Russia Google searches you.

 

[Red Squirrel]

*Crickets*

Weird, I thought I had replied. But my post is gone, or maybe it never went through.

Anyway, that's not what I got originally when I clicked on it. Originally when I went to that link, it had a basic profile setup for me already, and it would not let me do anything until I setup the full profile. Basically I'd get this javascript popup thing that would fade everything but I could still see the names of people I know IRL in my "friends" list that I never interacted with through any google product. I managed to find an option to opt out and now I see what you see. But I should not have to opt out to begin with. Maybe they changed it now and they no longer automatically put people in.

 

[lothar]

Weird, I thought I had replied. But my post is gone, or maybe it never went through.

Anyway, that's not what I got originally when I clicked on it. Originally when I went to that link, it had a basic profile setup for me already, and it would not let me do anything until I setup the full profile. Basically I'd get this javascript popup thing that would fade everything. I managed to find an option to opt out and now I see what you see. But I should not have to opt out to begin with. Maybe they changed it now and they no longer automatically put people in.

Nothing changed.
I've used Google GMail for years and never had to opt-out for Google+.
I was never automatically put in either.

 

[sixone]

Firefox + Do Not Track Plus = Google Analytics and Google Adsense completely blocked.

Easy peasy.

 

[Powermoloch]

as long you stay away from illegal shenanigans, then what the fudge cake?

 

[SparkyJJO]

Easiest way of making sure your personal info doesn't get online into anyone's hands?

DON'T POST PERSONAL INFO ONLINE.

Pretty simple, yet it amazes me how people whine and moan that Facebook/Google/<insert entity here> is "invading" their privacy when they put that stuff on the web in the first place.

Hint: The internet is not private, so never treat it as such.

Oh, Google+ has nothing on me because I never set it up. Fancy that.

 

[Zargon]

At least for now google and bing are not sharing data (to my knowledge) and so aggregating it is more difficult. It's that simple.

Oh and yes I do think google actually cares a lot less about privacy than microsoft.

yes MS has *many other* revenue streams that google doesn't, alot of it hinges on your personal info and habits