How the new CEO of Yahoo could destroy the world's largest ad spammer overnight.

This Googler from its better days could easily take down the Mountain View Ad Company. Their days of spying on us might be over.

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1716.html

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How the new CEO of Yahoo could destroy the world's largest ad spammer overnight. (Original post)	onehandle	Jul 2012	OP
I thought the "lower my bills" was the biggest ad spammer of them all.	Zalatix	Jul 2012	#1
Google is the world's largest ad spammer and data spy.	onehandle	Jul 2012	#2
There are already non-tracking search engines and they haven't replaced google. n/t	PoliticAverse	Jul 2012	#3
Must people just don't care that much -- not enough to pay for it	htuttle	Jul 2012	#4

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:05 PM

Zalatix (8,994 posts)

1. I thought the "lower my bills" was the biggest ad spammer of them all.

You mean someone's more ubiquitous than them?

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:09 PM

onehandle (35,499 posts)

2. Google is the world's largest ad spammer and data spy.

That's where all their money comes from. They haven't made a dime off of Android.

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:09 PM

PoliticAverse (5,540 posts)

3. There are already non-tracking search engines and they haven't replaced google. n/t

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Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:29 PM

htuttle (21,174 posts)

4. Must people just don't care that much -- not enough to pay for it

Last edited Wed Jul 18, 2012, 11:32 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

...and frankly, most of the time, I don't care either. I really don't care if anyone knows that I googled the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday at 3:32 PM (I was dealing with a chronic earworm...).

Times might grow more paranoid, but so far, most of the data being collected on me is of little use, and that which is useful (where I work, what I'm interested in, even who my friends are) isn't really that much of a secret.

on edit:

So far, the gain I get from being able to pop open a browser window and answer nearly any question I have is far greater than the risk I feel I'm taking by communicating that activity to hundreds of thousands of prospective marketeers. I'm not particularly swayed by sales pitches and I don't read the spam.

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