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RE: Apple
By EricMartello on 4/7/2013 2:03:39 AM , Rating: 2
What I was saying: Google is giving Android away for free.
You can use, modify and do whatever you want with it and don't have to pay Google anything in whatever form you want. ONLY if you want to use the optional Google services like Maps, Store, ... you have to accept some restricitions, otherwise, Google is giving it away for free and nothing is misguided.

Google made android to get its way into the mobile web market. I've already explained why google's "free" things are not free in my first post so I'm not going to repeat myself.

Since android is derived from linux it is pointless to mention that you can change the code to remove all association to google - the point is that android is the vehicle google decided upon to continue their tight control over digital communications.

If you're lazy and turn on Cookies, remain logged in, ... only then Google/Facebook/... is able to track you. You can surf in private mode, or just don't use the comfort functions like always logged in.

That's actually false and misleading. If you disable 3rd party cookies you may stop some smaller ad networks from tracking you. If you disable all cookies you will break the functionality of most websites, including sessions which means you would not be able to log into a website that requires a login.

No ad company can track you across more than 1 session or even more than 1 browser window. But people are lazy, people enjoy using the like button on each site, that's not an issues of Google, but of the people. I'm free to not use and even block it, and you know what? I blocked it.

You're obviously outside of your element here...

Google can and does track you on various websites that use ANY google service - which is a LOT of websites. A simple snippet of javascipt is all it takes.

Oh, but you're a smart one and disabled way they can track you. Wait, you forgot about the ability to encode session data into a graphic file which is downloaded when you load a site. Ok...disable images and broswer cache...but what about iframes? Evercookies?

The options to track you are numerous and there is little you can do to block google's tracking codes from loading each time you visit a website without reverting your web experience to those old ANSI BBS systems.

To block "everything" you'd basically have to uninstall all of your web browsing software and go back to using a text browser like lynx...even then you would not be free from their grip.

Webmasters that use ANY google service, usually adsense or analytics, have this code embedded into their it does track you across domains because the tracking code loads from google's own domain on each website. Google's tracking codes are their own instances/sessions regardless of the website you are looking at.

So to correct you - you believe you are blocking something and yet you are not because you are unaware of the insidious nature of google's "free" stuff. You are being watched and your movements over the web are logged.

Amazon, MS, Apple, Facebook, are just too large and popular to change this.

These entities play in a different arena, and while they have made attempts to chip away at google's dominance, google still controls what information is dispensed by the internet and to whom.

So as long as you can use on Android whatever software you like, and as long as Google publishes the source code of the latest iterations and as long as you are free to use it without Google, there's no reason to fear.

You are free to think so but Android has already played its part for google and google is already well-established in the smartphone web market.

