I am adopting a different approach. It seems likely that I may not be able to de-BigBrother myself without tremendous efforts. There are all kinds of devils out there, why not at least sell the soul only to a single devil? So I am going all Google. Nothing else. I exclusively use all their products (even Google+). I don't have FB, Twitter etc. Google is the devil I have sold my soul to.
I do the same and with youtube as well. I bookmark video timestamps by leaving comments and liking videos to see if I've watched the entire thing.
I do the same with stackoverflow too(upvoting comments if it was helpful). Later i can browse my likes across many platforms to refresh what I was looking up.
Might as well apply data capturing to yourself and reap its benefits
besides everything else mentioned before, i feel like this is a double-sword situation. centralizing every aspect of your life into 1 company gives them a much more refined picture about yourself than if your info were scattared around with other companies.
I'm pretty much same. I don't like it, but I won't use anything else either. It's bad enough that one company has so much data. I kind-of like the analogy someone told to me at some point that I prefer to shoot myself once in the chest instead of three times to the leg.
Doesn't matter which drain you go down, they all go to the sewer!
Surely once Google sell your data, or access to it, then you're in no better position than of above else were selling it? Google release it into the wild, presumably, just like other companies do.
