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How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 6:13 am
by JayM
An excerpt from a new book, on longreads.com:
https://longreads.com/2019/09/05/how-go ... veillance/
It's basically about how Google came to get its tentacles into pretty much everything we do and "monetize" us all.
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 7:20 am
by winemaker
personally i hate google.
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:22 am
by Justinian
me too. I feel the computer I am using is being raped whenever the browser status bar indicates translate.googleapis or fonts,... This can get quite annoying when the mobile broadband connection I frequently use gets throttled down to 2G. At that point, mxlinux blog takes more than three minutes to load. You won't notice whenever 3G or 4G connectivity is strong. How much bandwidth gets wasted worldwide? The only reason I haven't gotten depressed is because of excitement for MX-19! I usually download via Distrowatch but if it's a monthly snapshot or respin I need, then it's mxrepo (page loads in a couple of seconds on 2G).
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:35 am
by entropyfoe
winemaker, same here, google is dangerous.
Use ixquick, startpage, or duckduckgo for search.
A lot of the google tracking on sites is easily blocked by noscript in firefox, so the get less data.
And gmail... I have one, but rarely use it, as a last resort only.
Their power to influence elections is scary.
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 9:39 am
by winemaker
been using duckduck since it came out.
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:03 am
by malspa
What do folks here like to use instead of Google Maps?
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:05 am
by Eadwine Rose
TomTom :)
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:10 am
by anticapitalista
malspa wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:03 am
What do folks here like to use instead of Google Maps?
A paper map :)
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:20 am
by Eadwine Rose
anticapitalista wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:10 am
malspa wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:03 am
What do folks here like to use instead of Google Maps?
A paper map :)
Perfect if you have a wife or husband, yep. *giggle*
Re: How Google pioneered the "surveillance capitalism" business model
Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:35 am
by Justinian
How many years do I have to wait before I can install an AntiX-19 or something to a retail smartphone and escape the exploitation of big corporations that misuse capitalism? Just saying that on a PC you can protect yourself but hardly on mobile.