De-Google your life

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De-Google your life: it’s worth the hassle if you value your privacy
Data privacy may seem like a distant and abstract concept but what is more personal than the information you are sharing with Google?

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Instead of cash, people pay Google in kind: with their identity, their behaviour, their habits and their preferences. Google collates and analyses this user data on a global scale, sells it to advertisers and, according to Edward Snowden, more than occasionally gifts it to US and other intelligence services.

Viewed from a distance, Google is operating the largest instalment plan in human history.

The longer the plan runs, the more valuable Google’s customer data collections become.

You may already be more valuable to Google now than the cost to them of offering you their services.
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More, and the tips on how to do it.
http://www.irishtimes.com/business/...he-hassle-if-you-value-your-privacy-1.2211355