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Discussion on: Why I believe most people should stop complaining about Google storing their information

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Rob Hoelz

My issue with Google is that even if you actively try to avoid them - you use an alternative mail provider, you use DuckDuckGo for searches, etc - you still probably haven't fully opt-ed out. So many pages on the Internet these days have tracking scripts that phone home to Google, and allow them to build a profile on various users, and working around this is hard enough for a technical user, let alone a layperson. Going along with what John said, that's fine if people know what they're giving up in exchange for these services, but it's not exactly transparent.