[miguelrochefort]

It's not about having nothing to hide. It's about fighting for what is right. Homosexuality would probably not be so tolerated today if it was easy to hide.

You have to realize that you can't please everyone. And you certainly can't expect to live your whole life anonymously. You have to make decisions, and you have to accept that someone, somewhere, is going to be unhappy about it.

What if you were/are gay? Would you hide it from your parent all your life? Probably not (I hope). Why do you expect something different with the causes you support?

Does anyone blame Facebook for making Likes public? Probably some, but they're the tinfoil hat kind. Your support has no real weight unless your identity is known.

Should we ask Google to lower their standards, to match a culture of privacy that is both unsustainable and dying?

My suggestion, don't +1 anything until you're ready to accept the benefits/consequences. Doing otherwise is unresponsible.

[tensor]

Somehow for many years we've lived as a society with anonymous reviews counting for something. We've lived without each individual broadcasting everything we buy and use to the world.

Your view is the minority here. Why don't you go ask a random sampling of people if they want their choices in underwear broadcast to the world?

It's time you looked beyond yourself and realized that people don't have the same preferences regarding privacy as you, nor should they.

[fphhotchips]

Why are you +1ing underwear?

I've been able to see if somebody +1'd a search result for ages now, and quite frankly I don't want to know if somebody in my circles wears Bonds.

[Helianthus]

You... really are making quite a botched job of this.

1) You should be very, very careful about having a public opinion on coming out if you do not have personal (or more importantly relevant) experience.

2) We're in an era where the fears of tinfoil hats seem more and more reasonable. For you to write concerns off derisively in such a manner is completely out of touch.

3) Perhaps there is, in and of itself, nothing terribly surprising or intrusive about Google using +1s in advertisements. Focusing on that innocuousness is obtuse. It is as if you are pointedly ignoring the context of the privacy debate.

>a culture of privacy that is both unsustainable and dying?

This privacy culture is very alive. It is under great stress, but it is alive. What makes your viewpoint insufferable is that you don't seem to see the value in fighting for it.

[miguelrochefort]

I don't see the long term value in fighting for it. I publicly criticized privacy many times before. Everything has been said, now we just wait for the unavoidable obsolescence of privacy.

[Helianthus]

You're an idiot! Have a nice day.