[xbmcuser]

Yeah to me this is something people don't get about Google. Google was built around the notion that data is valuable so they do their best to keep it to themselves and not share with anyone. They do know who is who by tracking you but it is in their interest to allow their customers to utilise the data but not access it directly.

Funnily enough all the actions against Google advertising business monopoly if work out would probably make privacy on the web worse in my opinion.

[sulandor]

realization that data is valuable does not imply a privacy consciousness.

google is in the business of selling access to that information.

though, i can see the wisdom in painting the alternative even worse.

[xbmcuser]

I never said anything about privacy but rather about profits its in google interests to let and help you target high earning 26-36 year old using it ad tech rather than telling you who those 26-36 year high earners are. So your data not privacy is more important to them to keep from everyone else directly but through their ad tech.