What's all the fuss? Let me get this straight. Google is integrating my account across all it's services so as to view me as a single user across all properties. And this is bad? As a developer, it makes sense. As a user, my _free_ services take on a truly social dimension. This is a good thing.
If you read the pundits and bloggers trying to generate traffic you will read things like 'The end of Don't be Evil.' And that the 'real' reason is so that Google can serve more targeted ads. Let's think about this for a moment. I'm going to get served ads anyway. That's the price I pay for a _free_ service. So the ads are actually more relevant to me and my interest. Jesus, Mary, Francis, and Joseph! What the hell? Seriously, this is stupid.
The fuss is about professional journalists and privacy advocates trying to justify their existence.
Respectfully submitted,
-sakamoto
If you read the pundits and bloggers trying to generate traffic you will read things like 'The end of Don't be Evil.' And that the 'real' reason is so that Google can serve more targeted ads. Let's think about this for a moment. I'm going to get served ads anyway. That's the price I pay for a _free_ service. So the ads are actually more relevant to me and my interest. Jesus, Mary, Francis, and Joseph! What the hell? Seriously, this is stupid.
The fuss is about professional journalists and privacy advocates trying to justify their existence.
Respectfully submitted,
-sakamoto
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