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Thanks, but we don't want another Google knowing and keeping all our data, even websites that we visit.

All of your data? At best, they know the URL of any pages where this widget is visible. Not all websites, and not even a large subset of that site's pages.

This isn't like a Facebook share widget, which is usually so ubiquitous, they really can know all the sites you visit.

That's how every now-ubiquitous thing starts. It used to be other things. Most of them are gone now. Something will take the place of the Twitter and Facebook buttons some day.

By that logic, you would be using only Google+ and Allo for messaging.

I think I was clear about my logic: no more monopoly!

Why would you think I'd have to use Allo and G+?

I think that because you've used "all my data", he implied that you should be using their social network and their instant messaging service, so that it would truly be "all the data".

To me the spooky part is that he only thought of two use cases in which one is guaranteed that a random person is not using Google's services (at least, not exclusively).

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