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by blub 3514 days ago
No, the only thing that will work is to pummel guilty companies into the ground with fines.

But you can bet GooBookSoft will lobby against that like their lives depended on abusing customer data. And they do depend on it.

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I do not think collecting data on users is necessary. You still can show ads in search results even if you don't know anything about a user. And you don't need user's browsing history to sell him an airplane ticket.
Nope. I'm going for FaceGooSoft or FaceGleSoft. First writes better. Second sounds better. But you can have the copyrite because all are fun.
>Nope. I'm going for FaceGooSoft or FaceGleSoft. First writes better. Second sounds better.

With much regret, MiFaceGoo is rarely appropriate in the professional world.