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How is Google or Facebook any better? They are spy agencies for advertising purposes instead of national security.

Or companies that deploy ad sense or otherwise depend on companies like Google or Facebook.

>>rhino3+(OP)
Exactly. Between themselves, Google & Facebook have access to a disturbingly large amount of the private information and the thoughts of billions of persons. Pictures, emails, messages, social graphs, you name it.

And now Microsoft decided they also want a piece of the pie.

The kicker? I see people still defend Google all the time, nowadays with bullshit arguments like "I am tired of this you are the product meme" and still excuse Facebook because they need it to keep in touch with others. And they found startups based on advertising and tracking, they work for them and generally support analytics as an inalienable right of software development.

>>rhino3+(OP)
Because one problem at a time. Instead of throwing up ones hands because some other thing is bad, too.

>>Zigurd+j3
>Because one problem at a time.

Pretty much. I don't use Facebook at all, and give in to Google only on technical searches (Which DDG still isn't good at), mapping and when forced to by work (GCE etc.), so you're preaching to the choir, but lets not try for an overnight coup here.

>>rhino3+(OP)
People have a choice (at least to some extent) about the data they share with Google and Facebook. There is no such choice about the information that governments scoop up.