Comment by ergocoder
6 hours ago
I worked at Google before, so I trust Google more than these random organizations that claim they are better than Google at handling sensitive info.
6 hours ago
I worked at Google before, so I trust Google more than these random organizations that claim they are better than Google at handling sensitive info.
That is all nice and well, but Google is primarily an advertisement business. A huge corporation that gained enormous power that operates only to satisfy its own self interest. So that gives us non-Googlers more to think about than just that consideration to take into account.
It is an entirely realistic scenario which afaik data backs up that most people don't change their default privacy related settings which Google profits from, but in case of actually setting their provided privacy settings ON, they do work.
What do you mean by "better [...] at handling sensitive info"? As in, they are more technically competent, or they will treat your data more ethically?
I don't think these projects claim they've got better infrastructure for handling private data, just that they won't sell it to advertisers. I trust Google are experts at handling my data, I just don't want them to.
Better at siphoning out all the sensitive info, maybe.
On the other hand, I would trust a randomly chosen organization more than the world's largest adtech firm.
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