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Why would I not want to share my personal information with advertisers. I certainly don't want to be marketed feminine hygiene products if I am a male. I also don't want to get offered oracle integration products if I am a Microsoft SQL shop. Targeted advertising is fine by me.

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Is it possible, that you haven't thought this to the end. When you don't get advertising of feminine hygiene products, because you are a male, it is also possible, that you get no insurance advertisings, because you do free climbing. More, it is possible, you don't get cheap insurance or even any insurance because you habe only searched for free climbing or clicked on advertisement for free climbing products.

You understand. The industrie washes your brain to only see the positive side effects and don't think about the negative ones.

Just because you're ok with it, doesn't mean other people are.

Those people could, you know, not use Google. But I bet there aren't/won't be many of those in practice.

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