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LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
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i had to learn this the hard way when i got suckered in by their "dont be evil" motto.
They became obviously evil in 2004 when they introduced Gmail, and flat out said in their ToC that they are reading your email and selling your data.
yeah, but in my defense: i was a liberal at the time and we were/are notorious for not reading beyond the headline. lol
No one reads the article. Especially the hive
Iirc Google doesn't sell data in the traditional sense, they package profiles for advertisers and their own ad network, but they don't outright sell individual data. I could be wrong though.
They read every word of your email. Not a human, but a computer. Putting together a profile that is far larger than “advertising.” It’s literally every single thing you do everything you buy and get a receipt for, every service that you are Using. Every single thing that comes through your Gmail
I understand all that, but point is that they don't necessarily sell you profile or data points to a third party, they use all of that for their own targeted advertising
There would be a lot of money in selling your data to third parties, right?
I'm sure there is, but Google's core business is advertising. It would almost be counterintuitive for them to sell that data when they make more money utilizing it in their own systems.
We all got suckered. The good thing is that older data becomes less valuable. It's never too late for others to start either.