I'm a pretty secure guy when it comes to online activities. I've been a long time supporter of Google ever since it started. Recently I've decided to use Google without any security softwares enabled, especially my ad blockers; one of the most hated things you can come across online are ads..
To my amazement, there are ads everywhere on Google. Well, I don't mind the ads on the Google search engine or anywhere else, but what's shocking were the ads in my inbox's page. I realized Google scans your emails and place ads on the right side relevant to those emails you're viewing... Now that's a scary sight. I know this is old news to many, but for someone who hasn't been exposed to ads in years... is a big slap in the face. It's also hypocritical that Google has a spam box and yet they're happily supplying their own ads.
If you look at all of Google's products, like Google Search, Google Mail, Google Earth, Google Direction, Google Docs, Google Voice, Google Wave you'll realize all those products could later become a privacy issue concerning millions of people. The giant company is practically indexing people's personal life digitally which could potentially bite you later in the back. I mean I could search John T. Haller on Google and find so much information about him if I wanted to ... imagine what Google could do with all the other products they offer. Ill be switching my email addresses soon to either yahoo or microsoft, and say screw off to Google Wave, Google Voice, Google Mail, Google OS, Google Chrome, etc etc etc. EXCEPT Their search engine which I don't have a problem with... but than again I'll take a look at Bing to do a full retreat from Google.
Google is truly looking like an evil empire. Ugh...
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