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Comment by rksprst | Hacker News Reader

Right now its yahoo for me. Switched 2 days ago (from google) after getting fed up with the way google handles privacy and how it seems also its new products just want more and more information about me. Pretty soon google would want to map my DNA as well.

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You switched from Google to Yahoo for privacy reasons? Yahoo! has already demonstrated their total lack of ethics regarding privacy by helping the Chinese jail thought criminals. Whereas, Google has designed all its systems and its business models to ensure that it does not need to cooperate with horrible regimes.

Also, Yahoo! happily shared its users' information with the U.S. government upon request (when not even legally obligated to do so), whereas Google went to court to fight for its users' privacy.

I'm a lot less worried about having my information given away to the government than I am of a company trying to create a database of all the data in the world. Which is what google seems to want to do.

Yes, yahoo has given away information before (in China). But I'd still rather switch to a company that does not want to collect every single piece of data about me (be it my email, rss feeds, search history, or even the files on my computer - google desktop search).

You're fine with information being given to thieves and murderers but not to a company that wants to improve your experience so you'll voluntarily give it more money?

Funny you should say that...I almost took up a job @ 23andMe before finding out I got into SFP07. If you aren't familiar with them or their Google connection:

http://valleywag.com/tech/anne-wojcicki/a-startup-for-google-founders-fiancee-229063.php

Ok, that's disturbing. Hope google stays separate and doesn't want to incorporate it into their search.

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