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Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life

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Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> wrote:
> W dniu 2019-04-16 o?22:51, Mike Spencer pisze:
>> 
>>> A smartphone is not a necessity of life. Neither is Google.
>> 
>> Nor is electricity, unless you're dependent on high-tech life support
>> of one kind or another.  Other examples and subsequent debate are left
>> as an exercise for the reader. ;-)
>> 
> 
> Exactly.
> 
> I think that people should put more emphasis on the process of clearly 
> stating to those companies that nobody wants to be spied on, than on the 
> process of leaving certain search engines.

You're suggesting that everyone emails the companies explaining
that they don't like what they're doing, then keeps on using them
regardless? "Dear Google, I do not like your business model. However
I like all the services that you provide so much that I'm willing to
continue supporting it until you come up with a new one." - powerful
stuff.

> To be honest - if you want to stop all the spying, you cannot, unless 
> you change people who work at Google, Microsoft, etc. (all of them) to AI.

So they then loose their revenue, and "new-Google", "new-Microsoft",
"new-etc.", start up and overtake them by exploiting their users the
same way the the old companies used to. In fact AI designed to run a
business profitably would have failed miserably if it killed off its
company's core business.

The only way that the public can force the hand of a business which
is operating legally, is by choosing not to use them, or at least
believably threatening such (the anti-Facebook campaigns being
examples of threats that weren't believable).

In the case of Google, this still doesn't amount to nearly enough
people to hurt them. However it does make alternative services
like DuckDuckGo viable, and if they keep growing over time then maybe
one day they will be a threat to Google and cause them to change
their ways (maybe). Same with M$ Vs Linux etc.

> Human is nearly the root of all evil in this world - human race will 
> always have some dirty thoughts inside.
> 
> We are the problem or, to be specific: people with dirty and confused 
> minds who work at those companies, selling our data to others. SO - it 
> is about the money AND the human race :)

No it's user's dirty minds scheming to save time and increase
performance by using the services of these evil companies.

But everyone draws their own line as to what's "evil", and how
important that is compared with their own personal advantage.

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            Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 20:50 +0200
            Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-16 02:20 +0000
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                Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-16 23:48 +0000
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