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I guess Tim doesn't really comprehend the definitively Orwellian future that Google has in store for their users, and anyone who accesses any of their services. Centralized sharing and data storage, centralized application servers, centralized everything. All your data, email, communications, everything flowing through Google, and no hope of ever escaping their ads and related data analysis systems.

Google appears to really believe that people are going to sit around like sheep and let them rape every aspect of their online lives, and I can guarantee you this is not how it will play out. This is not the future I want. And Google will one day find out the hard way how wrong they are about their vision.

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Rape? Really?

There's some impedance mismatch in communication here that I don't quite understand.

Yes Google is figuratively raping its users. Google is using dystopian fiction like 1984 as its blueprint for control and survellience its users, and the modification and manipulation of information.

You either understand this or you're the sheep that put money in its pockets.

I call Poe's Law on this one.

The problem with your opinion is people not only will sit back and allow this they are activally enabling this. Do you think facebook doesn't keep track of people _view_ their Like™ button. Do you think apple doesn't track specifics of app usage and amazon is just enabling cloud rendering for a nifty tech demo ? The world is connected. Google can adapt to the market place stay relevent and continue to push the industry towards better pratices like they have a history doing, or they can watch their markets be moved towards more nefarious companies and slowly fade into irrelevance.

Like Tim said its not evil what they are doing , but your are expressing that one day it _might_ be easier to be really evil. Its a risk you take living in a world where you can get free search , Email and Social Networks.

Truth is that the majority of people are in fact sheep when it comes to online privacy, and aren't really concerned enough to the point that they would stop using Google's services.

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