And to be clear, because I am often a smartass on Twitter, everything I know about @__apf__ suggests that she is a person of high integrity who is being sincere here.
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Users who are concerned about their privacy are encouraged to read the several Chrome and Google terms of service, written by a team of expert lawyers on behalf of Google, and familiarize themselves with relevant legislation and recent court decisions in the US and EU
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I continue to be astonished at the level of shame and denial at Google around the company's business model. It's as if I kept arguing that Pinboard has nothing to do with saving bookmarks, and I personally would never sully myself by saving a bookmark
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Too few people understand the business model. It's not "selling your data", it's selling access to user attention based on private data that is jealously guarded. This allows Googlers (and people at Facebook) to imagine themselves as champions of user privacy while eradicating it
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Life is too short and precious to work at these companies, even if you are part of the quiet resistance within or whatever. What you do for a living is shameful.
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If you try to 'sign out' of the Chrome, it will also log you out of Google btw. So there is no choice anymore. You can't use Google services and NOT be signed into Chrome.
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yep, and all of us who use Google services at work are screwed. at least i made myself a separate chrome profile for that.
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