[bamboozled]

How is Google "much more invasive"?

I don't find Google invasive at all. I know Google harvests my data, but I get so so much in return for it. They make great products which have improved my life unimaginably and I choose to login to their services to reap those benefits. I am choosing to give them my data to use the services, maybe I'm doing a deal with the devil but at this point I feel the tradeoff is worth it.

I also can say confidently, that I have plenty of good, working alternatives to Google services which I can use at anytime, for example, I can open a private tab and use DuckDuckGo when I want to be a bit more anonymous.Other people get by without Google at all.

I think in the past Google made more invasive products but I feel they have moved on from that and probably learned from the negativity aimed at Facebook.

In comparison Facebook has done almost nothing beneficial for me have built a business model which doesn't give me the option to "opt out", I'd love to hear your counter arguments though.

[grepfru_it]

> example, I can open a private tab and use DuckDuckGo when I want to be a bit more anonymous

That’s the thing, even if you use DDG, the resulting pages have google and other trackers who share with google your information. So even though you think you’re being anonymous, they are still amassing data on you.

[qualudeheart]

How do you know DDG is trustworthy? You should use a searx instance. Better if it’s not running on your server but a friend’s.

[grepfru_it]

Once you visit a search result regardless of the search engine, that search result can tell google Facebook or whoever everything about your connection