[sean327]

Not me, I refuse to use Google. Hell, I wouldn’t even use Google toilet paper if it were available.

[Chickensoup]

Good to challenge assumptions

[ansel12]

To me, it seems that in the last year or so, google is ruining it’s products, from it’s search, to gmail, to it’s news page.

[givemELL]

I do not voluntarily use google at all, but it is involuntarily forced upon us in the URL address chain completion process on a lot of sites.

It seems like half the links I go to have to pass through google, and the delay is really irritating...”waiting for www.google.com” is announced in the middle of the URL address server progression on the way to the target. The delay is usually about 40 seconds before the address progression moves on to the intended destination.

Once at the site, the same google delay is encountered without fail going or coming within links at the involved sites. It has made some sites quite unusable...maybe that is the point. I noticed it in Feb. this year, and it has been a continual irritation since without letup.

[decimon]

...Google values its privacy.

But not ours.

[Talisker]

Google always says users can “opt out” of many of its forms of data collection...

Income tax is legally voluntary, too.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

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