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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Google to start selling user endorsements in ads,
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Fri Oct 11 12:25:03 2013
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:04:42 -0700
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Google to start selling user endorsements in ads, but with opt-out (unlike Facebook)
http://j.mp/1bj1yJW (Google+ / New York Times)
Unlike Facebook, Google is wisely allowing users to opt-out of this
program. I have chosen to exercise that option. More to say when more
details are known. I don't have ads on my own sites and I'm personally
uninterested in lending my endorsement to other parties' ads. Your
mileage -- as the saying goes -- of course may vary. Addendum: This
setting is already available (thanks Google!):
http://j.mp/1bj8jvb (Google+ settings)
My fundamental problem with this kind of system isn't with endorsing
products and services per se, but with endorsing specific advertisers
about whom I may know nothing and might be unwilling to recommend if I
did -- and not all advertisers of the same product or service are
created equal.
--Lauren--
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