

Microsoft's Scroogled campaign  (Source: CNN)










You can check out Scroogled here.

Source: Microsoft

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Advertising facts is not smearing...
By tayb on 2/7/2013 11:33:02 AM , Rating: 4
A smear campaign involves false or dubious claims. "Craig James killed 5 hookers" is smearing Craig James. Advertising facts is not a smear campaign. Google does scan your email. Google does sell that information to advertisers. Google does target ads to users based on the content of their emails. Google is not up front about this policy and if they were more people would be aware of it.


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By nafhan on 2/7/13, Rating: -1
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One last one, from the legal notices page:



My 2 cents.

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By nafhan on 2/7/13, Rating: 0
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Where can I find these "squirrel slippers"?

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Where is it stated that MS know what's in your email?

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By GotThumbs on 2/7/13, Rating: 0
Of course they have access.




Do you use an MS webmail service?

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I tend to have more trust in Microsoft.

Not because they say Google scans your emails and they don't.





To paraphrase you:


Does that sum it up?


By ppardee on 2/7/2013 1:24:35 PM , Rating: 2
You're correct, but by now I thought all but the most novice user of the internet would realize that if the service is free, then YOU are the product. This goes for Bing, Yahoo, Ask, or any other service that doesn't try to get you to pay them money directly.

Google won't stop what they're doing because that's what allows them to provide you the service. And why should they? How is it detrimental to you?

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By GotThumbs on 2/7/2013 1:39:11 PM , Rating: 2
Let's be fair here. Google is not the only company that does this. Facebook is one of the largest collections of marketing pools and its users don't pay one cent to use it. They make their money from marketing. Providing marketing opportunities to is users, is how these companies make money. Personally, I have not given goggle one cent for using their email service.

Your an ignorant twit if you really think you should get these services for free. Now if Google and FB allowed the option to pay a monthly fee to opt out of any/all marketing, then you have your option.

Revenues are what allow a company to pay its employees and buy the hardware to support its service. Revenues are why investors choose to invest in successful companies. Nothing is free people so stop lying to yourselves if you have a problem with companies using you a as a revenue resource. You can stop using their service any time you choose.

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I'm not aware it happened yet.

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According to this:



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Opt out is good! No argument there.

A smear campaign involves false or dubious claims.



By bug77 on 2/8/2013 7:39:48 AM , Rating: 2
Then what about a campaign informing users their email is sent unencrypted all over the internet? How many would be aware of that and how many would approve, once they found out?


By ResStellarum on 2/8/2013 11:40:04 AM , Rating: 3
Microsoft is trying to make Google look bad by scaring people with claims of privacy invasion among other things, but instead it's actually backfiring because all it does is make Microsoft look desperate and weak, and unable to compete with Google on product merit alone, and thus all we have coming out of Microsoft are PR stunts (Bing it on - haha), smear campaigns like this, and antitrust cries. Time to call the whambulance for Microsoft me thinks lol.

And Microsoft does conduct smear campaigns and antitrust lobbying efforts in secret too using proxies to attack Google and FOSS.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

So yes Microsoft is constantly trying to smear Google and other threats such as GNU/Linux, which Microsoft regularly boasts it could destroy on a whim with its patent arsenal.


If you aren't paying for a service YOU are the product.

