Google ToS Change Means Your Photo Could Go In Ads

An anonymous reader writes "Google [on Friday] announced an upcoming change to its terms of service that will let the company add users' names and photos to certain parts of its advertising as of November 11. Make no mistake: this is a direct attack against Facebook. One of the few advantages of Google+ is that it features no ads. To be perfectly clear, Google isn't changing that. Google+ will still have a clean interface, at least for the foreseeable future. Instead, Google is tying Google+ into yet another one of its properties, and arguably its most important one: Google Ads."

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Re:Attack?

[gl4ss]

look, I only technically have a google+ account because google tricked me into getting one. I could resist them on gmail. but as soon as I changed my youtube account to "new style" (or some shit like that) then BAM! I was as a google+ user.

you know why they did that? to drive up g+ user stats. fucking peons hunting for fake user numbers, that's what they are.

I'm not aware of fb using say instagram to trick people into becoming stat manipulation users..

and I sure as fuck don't want my social network to be handled by the guys who handle my search and mail..