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Leaked Microsoft Video Parodies Chrome Ad

Posted by Unknown on from the fighting-for-evildoer-crown dept.

First time accepted submitter Stratus311 writes "An article from The Verge shows a video leaked from Microsoft that parodies Google's Chrome ad. From the article: 'Microsoft and Google have been locked in a war of words over a YouTube Windows Phone app, but in the midst of the arguments a new Scroogled ad has emerged. Designed to be an internal-only video, a copy has somehow managed to find its way onto the web right in the middle of Google's I/O developer conference.'" "Somehow" leaked.

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  1. Insightful video by sprego · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I feel like Microsoft is truly correct with this video. Google is monetizing you, and worse yet, tracking everything you do in unseen scale.

    At least with Microsoft I know they will value my privacy. I pay for their product and that's it. But Google's business model is around the monetarizion of its users.

    Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior. All done in a warm, fuzzy feel that Google is somehow your very best friend. It's entirely psychological.

    1. Re:Insightful video by Antipater · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.

      So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.

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    2. Re:Insightful video by zlives · · Score: 4, Insightful

      which clearly makes it perfectly right!?

    3. Re:Insightful video by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Truly correct fore sure. The part that is missing though is "we would do it if we had the chance".

    4. Re:Insightful video by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Insightful

      MS values your privacy? You mean how they read encrypted Skype messages? Don't kid yourself about MS motivations. They would monetize you in every single way they can and they will sell data to third parties. They are just not as good as Google yet. Google makes no pretense about it; it's how they make money from the free services they provide.

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    5. Re:Insightful video by lemou · · Score: 2, Insightful

      And watch the astroturfing moment start... Microsoft is doing the same. They are less successful than Google, that's it.

    6. Re:Insightful video by slashmydots · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Did you know that just like Zynga (the facebook game company), Google uses professional human psychologies when building their services. They don't just track, but they go directly after the science of human behavior.

      So does every other company in the world with an advertising department.

      Just because the pot called the kettle black doesn't mean the kettle isn't completely, utterly jet black.

  2. FFS Slashdot.... by bazmail · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Stop calling quiet press releases "leaks" FFS. We all know people yawn at press releases so they call it a leak and you look like an investigative journalist. Everyone wins right? Bleh fuck it. Slashdot has officially joined The Great Stupiding.

  3. The difference between all three by ArcadeMan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple wants to sell you hardware, services and content. You pay for everything.
    Microsoft wants to sell you hardware, services and content. You pay for everything.
    Google wants you to use their services. You're being sold to pay for everything.

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    1. Re:The difference between all three by Enderandrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Search engine: Microsoft and Google
      Desktop OS: All three
      Mobile OS: All three
      Music service: All three
      Messaging service: All three
      Email: All three
      Maps: All three
      Videos: Microsoft and Google
      Cloud storage: All three

      It isn't like Microsoft isn't in these other markets.

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  4. Jealous by EMG+at+MU · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It just seems like MS is jealous that Google is making money hand over fist. Microsoft tried to do the same thing Google did. They have a search engine and advertising business. They just aren't as good at it as Google. Tracking is pretty independent of what browser you use anyways. Besides, people don't give a shit that they are being monetized. People still use facebook don't they? And people do realize, to some probably limited extent, that facebook is all about monetizing them.

  5. Negativity? by ashvagan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Don't we have ads on Bing? Don't we ads on Hotmail/Outlook.com? Don't we have ads on every service out there from Microsoft that's free? If you can't trust Google, you will never trust Microsoft either. Birds of a feather ...?

  6. Re:You're right but.. by dimeglio · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Personally, I feel Microsoft is frustrated Google succeeded in changing the rules they worked so hard to establish.

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  7. Re:You're right but.. by cheater512 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or rather jealous of Google since they make money from free products while Bing makes losses every single quarter.

    *They* want to track you just as much, they are just incompetent at the implementation.