On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 04:59:35PM -0800, Larry Colen wrote: > > On Mar 8, 2012, at 8:43 AM, mike wilson wrote: > > > On 05/03/2012 15:45, David Parsons wrote: > >> That defeats the purpose of using Google products in the first place. > >> I use the history to find websites or pages that I may want to refer > >> back to that I may not have bookmarked. And since it's a web based > >> service, it works on all computers that I've logged onto. > > > > It defeats (to some extent) Google using information it gathers from and > > about me for its own purposes, when I use some of their products. At best > > Google (and some other companies) is like one of those friends that you see > > infrequently and, when you do, they try to sell you something or get you to > > invest in some just-this-side-of-legal scheme. As such, I will either not > > use those products or exercise this right. > > > > I'm sure Google is orders of magnitude more important to me than I am to it > > but, if push came to shove, I could manage perfectly well without it. > > > Just out of curiosity, what harm comes to you from Google, or anyone else, > collecting this information?
Yep. I mean, it's not as if you avoid ads splashed all over your screen. And if I'm going to be bombarded with ads, I'd rather see ads for products or services that I might be interested in than just random selections. So I see ads for TiVos, or ASUS tablets, or Olympus cameras, or generic Allegra. My wife sees Coldwater Creek and Audiobooks on her computer. So Google do us a service by filtering out ads we care nothing about. If this allows them to charge a higher ad rate for their services I'm not particularly bothered. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
