<story><title>Google Maps won&apos;t let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hylianwarrior</author><text>Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.&lt;p&gt;Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20&amp;#x2F;20...</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don&amp;#x27;t delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with that though. It&amp;#x27;s just good for people to realize that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>pluma</author><text>%s&amp;#x2F;sell&amp;#x2F;monetise&amp;#x2F;g&lt;p&gt;You know what they meant. Google is milking users for all data they can derive from their activity and creating value from that. It&amp;#x27;s not so much the use of the data that&amp;#x27;s the problem as the lengths they go to to create that data.&lt;p&gt;I recall someone from one of the major tech companies talking about how their users &amp;quot;emit data&amp;quot;, implying the data just happens and their role is purely passive with the users practically handing them that data. That&amp;#x27;s a perverse way of looking at it when you contrast it with e.g. the GDPR&amp;#x27;s premise that data belongs to the user and companies need (withdrawable) consent to collect and process it.&lt;p&gt;In the US tech companies don&amp;#x27;t collect user data, users &amp;quot;emit&amp;quot; it -- even if the only reason the data is &amp;quot;emitted&amp;quot; is because the tech is actively spying on its users&amp;#x27; every move.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Maps won&apos;t let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking</title><url>https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hylianwarrior</author><text>Why on earth would you think Google would sell its most valuable asset? Google does not sell user data, it builds on it. The more data they get, the better and better their AI will develop.&lt;p&gt;Looking back, when they announced they were going to become an AI-first company these sort of drastic data-grabs and privacy issues should have been apparent. But hindsight is 20&amp;#x2F;20...</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>In a way stuff like this and the recent news that they don&amp;#x27;t delete their own cookies from Chrome when deleting all cookies could be good news. It seems to become clearer and clearer that Google is getting desperate to squeeze more and more data out of people in order to sell that data. Hope they will lose their good guy image because now they are just another big greedy company like all others. Nothing wrong with that though. It&amp;#x27;s just good for people to realize that.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnchristopher</author><text>I believe it&amp;#x27;s now common to use &amp;quot;sell your data&amp;quot; as a synonym of &amp;quot;make profit off data&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;sell a service that gives anonymized data&amp;quot;.</text></comment>