Being Honest,
I never had any problem with Google tracking my activities. I love their services and I feel like they're using my data to really serve me better.

But I do have problems with Amazon and Facebook.
Amazon keeps disturbing me with their annoying ads recommending things I've already purchased.
Using Facebook on the other hand is like standing nude in public.

I have got my fb disabled since parents and grandparents are using it.

I dont mind Google either. But I hate Facebook 🙃 so disabled the account.

Personally, I don't think Google is any more or less insidious/conniving/whatever you might call it than Amazon or Facebook, but they are that much less annoying/more convenient. Which is why I have come to accept the truth that I have sold my soul for the comfort of Google!

I wish I could eat these cookies like I do in real life.. 😑

@guddga
Same here. I sold my soul to Google and Microsoft and o think that's enough. The other companies will just get as much information as it's needed.

I think it's perfectly fine to make the CHOICE of providing a company with your data.

As long as it is a true choice, the company respects that they are only borrowing your details, and they take good care of that data.

I think Google has one thing going for them: They make damn sure that their big AI brain is not gossipy, because they know a large leaking scandal would absolutely decimate them. Their scandals are limited to gathering more information than stated, but while they're greedy, they've also been pretty clean.

I do however think that we rely way too much on them. Living without Google is hard, and that much dependency can never be good.

@ceee same here, never used it since 2012

@guddga exactly

@bittersweet I agree!

@Linuxxx All this nightmare fuel about people willingly offering their data to mass surveillance networks... Do you see where my project idea comes from? People give in due to the "convenience" that Google offers, hence why we need to make FOSS alternatives more convenient to work with and accessible. I actually feel bad for people going this way.

@TheOct0 You're saying this because you're a developer and you know the possibilities. You understand their plans and strategies.
But now think from an average person's perspective. They do their job, feed their family, they've dreams but not enough money and time.
In that life if someone comes, offers them good services and do a lot of their boring work without charging cash, who would refuse them?
Let's talk about Google's strongest tool of collecting data, Google photos. Tell me a single alternative of that. There isn't. And that's why people are so dependent on it. No one wants to spend their entire Sunday in separating important photos out of the junk, manually categories them and then make manual paid backups.

@omigator I get that (everyone around me is like that), and that's precisely why I think they need a hand, someone to make this task feasible without being a senior developer or IT major. Those companies take advantage of most people needing easy solutions and milk them to an unimaginable extent. All they need is something (or someone) giving them an alternative that's as easy and as attainable as the proprietary one.

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@omigator I don't think that the 'they do their job and feed their families' part should ever be a valid argument to justify the use of the services of a company/mass surveillance network like google.

@TheOct0 exactly

@linuxxx that part gave an emotional touch to my side of argument 😂😂

@retard Just saw this mention now haha.

I don't think anything at all justifies the use of mass surveillance integrated services. Because if a service integrates you within such networks, they genuinely don't give a shit about their users and why'd anyone use such a service? They sold all their users out the second they got integrated.

@linuxxx I agree..