DeGooglization

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

If you are *NOT* paying for the product - then *YOU* are the product.

I'm not convinced this is so problematic for me personally. The targeted ads are so good as to be creepy.
That said, I'm pretty sure most are bots and program driven, not an actual person doing the spying.

So, if I find what I want conveniently, while Google knows what product I want to buy, well...

The fact that bots are writing algorithms to watch me anonymously somehow bothers me less than being watched in person.

[OtterbatHellcat]

Google and other crap IS/ARE watching everything we do I think. Yeah it pisses me off, but I can't do anything about it and I'm gonna keep using the internet.

I don't know why the world got the way it has, or where it's going... my or anyone's approval or not. It might be important to be ABLE to say that I knew life without internet or cable TV or these damn phones everyone has, including myself.