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HonestCup20 t1_jdtp0nt wrote

i mean.. Google is already that good enough for me.. the idea that i can just google ANYTHING and learn about it, is unimaginable from my childhood years.. i'm only 37 and i think we live in the coolest generation of years, ever. the fact that i can just listen to whatever i want, whenver i want. i can do anything for a job and learn about it before i even do it, through online courses from professionals, i can invest in anything i want from the phone in my hand or the computers in my house. I can travel anywhere by buying tickets from my couch in my house. I can have face to face video conversations with my family in NY, while i'm in Japan.. we are the future, this is now. and it's amazing.

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circleuranus OP t1_jduqgx0 wrote

Yes but think of what you've given in return for it. Google knows so much about you if you could read a printout, it would likely terrify you.

And we've pretty much accepted that Google and the like are now the gatekeepers for the internet. They choose what you see based on their algorithms when you perform a search. They choose what business you see first, what type of information you see first, et al. For all practical purposes, the only way a business can complete is to pay Google for business listings and front page search results. This paradigm has far reaching consequences.

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HonestCup20 t1_jdypovj wrote

I actually am very happy with all the info i get from google. the things i search for, the results i get, the ads that are tailored to my searches and what i say in front of alexa and my phone. So far i really have no issues with what i've need to get done, or do. I enjoy the ease of life with all this information at my finger tips and the amount of things possible from it.. i really don't care at all how much they know about me, because so far, they just keep offering more of what i want, and giving it to me, so it's a win-win.

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