Goodbye-gle
Aug. 30th, 2011 06:30 pmI've already made more posts on the topic than you probably want to read, but in short I have definitely lost my faith in Google.
( ok, I can't resist complaining a bit ) So my main reason for this post is to ask you to email me at my domain in future. Don't write to my old Gmail ID, please. I am not deleting the account, mainly because I really like Google's IM system [ETA: and I do plan to carry on using it because most of friends are there]. But I am setting myself up so that if Google's behaviour with broadcasting personal data and inferences from personal data gets any worse, I can delete it without any serious consequences.
I think the next step is to do what I've always held back from doing, and start blocking Google ads. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide to doing this? I assume it starts with "install a Firefox extension", but I'm not sure which ones are best to use or what the magic incantation is to hide Google ads.
( ok, I can't resist complaining a bit ) So my main reason for this post is to ask you to email me at my domain in future. Don't write to my old Gmail ID, please. I am not deleting the account, mainly because I really like Google's IM system [ETA: and I do plan to carry on using it because most of friends are there]. But I am setting myself up so that if Google's behaviour with broadcasting personal data and inferences from personal data gets any worse, I can delete it without any serious consequences.
I think the next step is to do what I've always held back from doing, and start blocking Google ads. Does anyone have a step-by-step guide to doing this? I assume it starts with "install a Firefox extension", but I'm not sure which ones are best to use or what the magic incantation is to hide Google ads.
ETA 2: Thanks commenters who pointed out that I can use Jabber to talk to Google contacts! I'm now retiring my Gmail account altogether; if you want to talk to me on IM, see my profile for my username @jabber.org. I think I've added most of the people I regularly chat to.
