Google is FUBAR ⇥

Sebastian Anthony:

Late yesterday, Google announced perhaps the biggest change it has ever made to its massive network of web services: Starting in March, your search and surf habits across all of Google’s products will be combined to form the mother of all behavioral profiles.

I’m not certain this is Google’s intent, but rather a convenient side-effect of placing everything under one privacy policy and one shared data collection rule. This is absolutely insane. The real kicker is that there’s almost no way to remove oneself from the enormity of what Google owns or has interest in. Even if you (like I) have disabled the keyword based ads and search history, or if you change to another search provider and another news aggregator, there isn’t a video sharing site as prolific as YouTube nor a book search as good as Google Books. Google is everywhere, and I bet nobody can fully disconnect from the company.