How the new CEO of Yahoo could destroy the world's largest ad spammer overnight.

[onehandle]

This Googler from its better days could easily take down the Mountain View Ad Company. Their days of spying on us might be over.

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1716.html

[Zalatix]

1. I thought the "lower my bills" was the biggest ad spammer of them all.

You mean someone's more ubiquitous than them?

[onehandle]

2. Google is the world's largest ad spammer and data spy.

That's where all their money comes from. They haven't made a dime off of Android.

[PoliticAverse]

3. There are already non-tracking search engines and they haven't replaced google. n/t

[htuttle]

4. Must people just don't care that much -- not enough to pay for it

...and frankly, most of the time, I don't care either. I really don't care if anyone knows that I googled the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody yesterday at 3:32 PM (I was dealing with a chronic earworm...).

Times might grow more paranoid, but so far, most of the data being collected on me is of little use, and that which is useful (where I work, what I'm interested in, even who my friends are) isn't really that much of a secret.

on edit:

So far, the gain I get from being able to pop open a browser window and answer nearly any question I have is far greater than the risk I feel I'm taking by communicating that activity to hundreds of thousands of prospective marketeers. I'm not particularly swayed by sales pitches and I don't read the spam.