99% of cookies are used to abuse end users. To track their activities in a big brother fashion. To collect their personal information for targeted advertising. And to associate their spending habits with clicks and mouse overs that are sold to millions of businesses. None of this information was collected in good faith, and while it might not meet the legal definition of fraud, there is an ethical charge that they've stolen something they do not own and sold it.
Law makers aren't likely to understand. We're at a point where the uninformed believe Google is the Internet.
If legislation tries to go after Google, we'll get a lot of nonsense about how Google gives people free email and what are these people supposed to do now? They'll scream: OMG I'll lose my email address!
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social
sciences' is: some do, some don't.
-- Ernest Rutherford
More cookies is more bad (Score:5, Informative)
99% of cookies are used to abuse end users. To track their activities in a big brother fashion. To collect their personal information for targeted advertising. And to associate their spending habits with clicks and mouse overs that are sold to millions of businesses. None of this information was collected in good faith, and while it might not meet the legal definition of fraud, there is an ethical charge that they've stolen something they do not own and sold it.
Re:More cookies is more bad (Score:2)
99% of google's tech is to abuse end users.
past time to castrate them
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Law makers aren't likely to understand. We're at a point where the uninformed believe Google is the Internet.
If legislation tries to go after Google, we'll get a lot of nonsense about how Google gives people free email and what are these people supposed to do now? They'll scream: OMG I'll lose my email address!