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Personalized Search From Google Now Opt-Out
An anonymous reader writes "CNet reports that 'Google now intends to deliver customized search results even to those searching its site without having signed into a Google account.' This may be what finally drives me to seriously experiment with cookie-free browsing. I consider non-personalized search results to be of value. They quasi-subconsciously give me a better perspective of the full range of information and ideas on the net. That, and I'm also a bit paranoid about a coming world with push-button infrastructure for personalized mis/disinformation."
I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".
Your new sense of humour will be arriving shortly. Based on SlashDot posts, your old one seems to be broken.
I've had my browser cookies turned off for 8 years. I only use cash to make purchases. I don't even use the bathroom in my house because I'm worried THEY are watching what I'm eating. Sure my basement is filled with mason jars filled with crap, but it isn't as difficult as you might think. You also get used to the smell after a while. It is a small price to pay to not have the government know what I'm eating/drinking.
I hope you are joking, because my creep-o-meter just went off the scale.
You'd rather I left my parent's basement and went to the store for hand lotion and tissue? What would your creep-o-meter think of that?
If you install current Google maps to your Symbian phone (possibly others soon) and "reset it", it will send your personal "favorites" (read: locations saved) to Google, without even asking you. For example "Grandma's home" goes from your personal phone memory to Google, instantly.
I don't care if Google knows where Grandma lives. It's the Big bad wolf that I'm worried about.
"Only people hiding in shacks and never speaking to other humans are vulnerable to personalized misinformation."
Does the basement of my mother's shack count?
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Just give us your credit card number and everything will be fine, comrade. Really.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
You'd rather I left my parent's basement and went to the store for hand lotion and tissue? What would your creep-o-meter think of that?
Not much compared to seeing someone in the checkout line with half a dozen large cucumbers and a big tube of personal lubricant... and nothing else... except a smile...
(it freaks the cashiers out too)
http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/collecting_double_takes.png
You have the right to remain sentient. If you give up the right to remain sentient, you will be elected to public office
Your mother's shack has a basement? Ooooh, laa-dee-daaa. Be careful not to spill your caviar into your Dom Perignon.
... and then they built the supercollider.