Exactly. I get ads in my Gmail that are related to whatever was in my email. That means Google is reading my email... my personal email from one person to another. Even if it's just some Google server collecting keywords from my personal emails... it's still creepy.
But, Gmail is free... and all of the other free email services do it too.
@neoelectrex Turning off location based services is easy on iOS, too. I haven't tried turning off iAds yet. I'll let you know how I fare.
Google collect far more data about us than Apple ever could. Provided both organisations give us some control over what they collect and how it's used, I don't care.
@Dale P They don't "collect" data. None of them do. It's all in temporary files in anonymous format. I don't think even Google has enough storage to hold all of the location and search results of every gmail, android, youtube, etc. account. I don't think neither Apple nor Google wants to take the risk of permanently storing this many peoples personal information.
@Special Agent Steve You must have heard very different things about Google's data capacity, then. Their data centers are numerous and ridiculous. Here's an article about some of their server tech to give you an idea:
Almost every email programm analyses emails for Spam on the fly. You need no Server farm for that, even netbooks are powerfull enough. Let's say Logging a search query cost you 100 bytes then you can store 10 Mio request in a GB and that today costs almost nothing. Anonymous doen't mean you can't deanonymize it. IP addresses are also often considered anonymous, but P2P Users have a different opinion on that.
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Google collect an incredible amount of data on us. I haven't stopped using their services yet.
@Dale P
Exactly. I get ads in my Gmail that are related to whatever was in my email. That means Google is reading my email... my personal email from one person to another. Even if it's just some Google server collecting keywords from my personal emails... it's still creepy.
But, Gmail is free... and all of the other free email services do it too.
@Dale P
With android you can turn location based services/ads off completely easily.
@neoelectrex Turning off location based services is easy on iOS, too. I haven't tried turning off iAds yet. I'll let you know how I fare.
Google collect far more data about us than Apple ever could. Provided both organisations give us some control over what they collect and how it's used, I don't care.
@Dale P
They don't "collect" data. None of them do. It's all in temporary files in anonymous format. I don't think even Google has enough storage to hold all of the location and search results of every gmail, android, youtube, etc. account.
I don't think neither Apple nor Google wants to take the risk of permanently storing this many peoples personal information.
@Michael Scrip Google all up in your shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrontojPWEE
@Special Agent Steve You must have heard very different things about Google's data capacity, then. Their data centers are numerous and ridiculous. Here's an article about some of their server tech to give you an idea:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
I certainly don't think they do any evil, big brother things with their data. For them it's purely about statistically matching ads to eyeballs.
@Special Agent Steve You are joking right?
Almost every email programm analyses emails for Spam on the fly. You need no Server farm for that, even netbooks are powerfull enough. Let's say Logging a search query cost you 100 bytes then you can store 10 Mio request in a GB and that today costs almost nothing. Anonymous doen't mean you can't deanonymize it. IP addresses are also often considered anonymous, but P2P Users have a different opinion on that.