Gizmodo posted up a pretty interesting piece the other day about "removing yourself from under the big G's shadow" as they put it. I'm not against the idea of leaving Google or anything, but I find it interesting that people believe that leaving the company's services they'll somehow cover up private information they don't want people seeing. News flash: Google isn't the only one with access to your private information.

For instance, your every move is traced by your ISP; they know what you're doing. They know what's your favorite porn fetish, your bank of choice, where you live, and many other vital pieces of information about your individual self - though, people are either completely oblivious to this or just simply choose not to pay much attention to it. People don't like to think that big brother's looking over your shoulder, but they are - maybe not actively, but if they chose to they could, and how would you even know about it?

I'm not taking Google off the hook for their actions, what they did displaying nothing short of lack of consideration for the end user, but what I'm saying is that the some people who've vested so much into Google have started to lose sight of what exactly their relationship with them entails. They're not your friend, they're not a confidant, they're not even someone who truly cares about you. What they are is a business; a business built to make money from your continued use of their product.

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