On 3/8/2012 8:40 PM, John Francis wrote:
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.
I do a pretty good job of avoiding the adverts.
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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