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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1400172"><p>Yeah, and it's coming from me.</p><p></p><p>Naturally the boilerplate stuff is going to be similar among the services, but which one of them derives 96 percent of its income from advertising?</p><p></p><p>Hint: the product Google is selling is YOU. For people to try and deny this after years of the company being in legal trouble in one place or another over it is just nutty. To be fair, this is also Facebook's stock in trade -- how they make their money. They sell information about you to other companies so that advertisers can target you.</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying this is good or bad. I'm saying you should be aware that this is their business model, and govern yourself accordingly.</p><p></p><p>Apple doesn't do this, because Apple doesn't own a search engine, isn't dependent on advertising for its revenue, and doesn't sell user data they collect to third parties. That's not to say they don't collect information on users -- iTunes seems to know what I might like to buy, for example -- but I think there's an obvious and very clear difference between what Apple does with user information it collects (and they way it notifies users of what its collecting), and what Google does and how they do it, that's all.</p><p></p><p>All of the policies quoted say "we MAY look at your data if we believe we have a reason to." But which one of them has the strongest reason to?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1400172"] Yeah, and it's coming from me. Naturally the boilerplate stuff is going to be similar among the services, but which one of them derives 96 percent of its income from advertising? Hint: the product Google is selling is YOU. For people to try and deny this after years of the company being in legal trouble in one place or another over it is just nutty. To be fair, this is also Facebook's stock in trade -- how they make their money. They sell information about you to other companies so that advertisers can target you. I'm not saying this is good or bad. I'm saying you should be aware that this is their business model, and govern yourself accordingly. Apple doesn't do this, because Apple doesn't own a search engine, isn't dependent on advertising for its revenue, and doesn't sell user data they collect to third parties. That's not to say they don't collect information on users -- iTunes seems to know what I might like to buy, for example -- but I think there's an obvious and very clear difference between what Apple does with user information it collects (and they way it notifies users of what its collecting), and what Google does and how they do it, that's all. All of the policies quoted say "we MAY look at your data if we believe we have a reason to." But which one of them has the strongest reason to? [/QUOTE]
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