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To: RoosterRedux

Do you have to log into Google?

If so, it is not free, you are paying with your personal information in massively complete detail.

Google is probably the world’s worst offender on this common phenomenon.

If it is free then YOU are the product being sold and sold and sold to advertising agencies and advertising purchasers. And now AI will figure you out even more in order to present you to whoever will buy.


7 posted on 01/02/2025 11:12:19 AM PST by Weirdad (Orthodox Americanism: It's what's good for the world! (Not communifascism!))
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To: Weirdad
Very true. As has been said, "if a product is free, you are the product."

BTW, I'm not recommending that anyone go to Google and use the product. I posted the video so you could see what AI is doing.

Gemini use to be a pretty bad AI platform. But this rendition is a big step forward.

I don't use Gemini. I use ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity, and Claude.

12 posted on 01/02/2025 11:22:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
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To: Weirdad
If so, it is not free, you are paying with your personal information in massively complete detail.

All you have to do is create a fake gmail address.

Google doesn't know who you are unless you tell them...and why would you do that?

17 posted on 01/02/2025 11:38:48 AM PST by RoosterRedux (Emerson paraphrased, "If you strike at the king, don't fail." The Democrats failed. )
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