[jodrellblank]

So insightful to call people babies and compare comments to facebook comments to make yourself feel superior. Great content filled putdown.

so many fcking brilliant things I can do with my data. But what?

All things you could have done, if you had configured your browser to save your searches on your terms.

Not worried if Google tracks a skipped song history or an irrelevant app install on the gazillionth device I own.

Nobody is worried about this strawman.

Google has a copy of the same too? baby cry What am gonna do?*

Extrapolate this bit "google's anticompetitive behaviour" in your mind to the point where it affects you personally, then realise that it affects other people who aren't you, then legislate them hard before that happens.

[fallenatreus]

So insightful to call people babies and compare comments to Facebook comments to make yourself feel superior. Great content filled putdown.

Not that I wanted to sound superior and compared comments to baby cry, just wanted to say that people are making a big fuss about something that is completely trivial.

All things you could have done, if you had configured your browser to save your searches on your terms.

No, I couldn't have done that until I discovered this post on hn today, even getting an idea to do that thing would have been chance encounter. Even if I was interested, seriously, are you suggesting I would have implemented a custom solution for all of the devices I ever used (since a decade) not to count different environments and oses they would operate on? My argument was in the spirit of converting a curse into a boon. Making good out of something supposedly bad.

Nobody is worried about this strawman.

If you really go through the arguments against this activity tracking, you would find even more such examples. It's not strawman, it's what actually bothering the people a lot (if you can go through rest of the comments)

Extrapolate this bit "google's anticompetitive behaviour" in your mind to the point where it affects you personally, then realise that it affects other people who aren't you, then legislate them hard before that happens.

Completely I do understand everybody's unique situation, my approach could have been malformed but the intention is not. Just trying to show people something positive out of negative.

And I rest my case.

[JohnFen]

> just wanted to say that people are making a big fuss about something that is completely trivial.

Completely trivial to you. I say that's fair and I respect your stance. It's also fair that there are people for whom this is not trivial at all. You should be able to respect their stance.