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Originally Posted by Katsunami
You sure?
Google is always nagging to use your own name on YouTube. They are nagging to get a Google+ account for YouTube, and have made it obligatory for Android if you want to leave app reviews. They're connecting GMail, Google+, YouTube, Docs, and Drive; "all of your data in one place".
That's only one thing I don't like: the integration of all of their services; they're making it almost impossible to sign up for one service, without also signing up for a boatload of others.
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Well, given that I've stated categorically that the integration is something that I really appreciate this isn't really going to sway me.
You see this as "making it almost impossible to sign up for one service, without also signing up for a boatload of others", I see it as a single sign-on to a service that has a wide range of features.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Some businesses exist solely to gather data: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, FourSquare... it works, because they are social networks. Google obviously came to that same conclusion, and they obviously had other services already. They're just using Google+ as an excuse to connect everything together. They're even fiddling with the privacy rules for their services.
If Facebook and the others are large with regard to data collection, then Google is the Mother of all Data Collection Juggernauts.
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There is one huge difference. Google's primary business is advertising. Consequently their database is like gold dust to them. The others have reasons to sell on your data, Google far, far less so. Your data is what brings their core business in to them.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
I'll never ever trust all of my computing needs to one company, let alone a company that mines data on the scale Google is doing;
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Their primary interest is in selling targeted advertising. I personally would far prefer advertising focussed on my interests than random advertising.
Whether or not I use Google services has no bearing on the measures I might take to block advertising.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
the Chromebook is just one more option to get you to use the Google services.
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Or you could see it as the ultimate expression of a clean interface into those services.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
In short, I don't trust them.
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The trust I'm placing in them is that they don't misuse or accidentally leak my information. So far, they seem to have a better record at that than many other large companies.
On the other hand, you are presumably placing your trust in a series of offline backup procedures. If you are backing up your data online, then you're at the same sort of risk as I am.
Graham