Google Will Start Using Your Picture To Sell Products To Friends

[Matsuda]

Google users will soon find themselves unwittingly advertising products for the company, thanks to a massive change Google quietly made to its terms of service. First reported by the New York Times, the change categorizes a user's follows, comments, and +1s as an endorsement for a product or service. New ads are then built around these endorsements, pulling in a user's profile name and photograph to help boost the ad's credibility.

This means that ratings and reviews for an artist or album in the Google Play store can be shown to a friend as they browse for new music, or liking a business on Google Plus Local means you'll be now be recommending it to everyone in your circles. Google will build ads using information from adult users, so anyone under the age of 18 will be automatically opted out.

Google+ has never enjoyed the organic success of its competitors, and the enormous, potentially severe privacy implications of the change certainly aren't going to help. The new advertising model is similar to Facebook, which shows which of your friends have liked an business or service on its social networking site. As with Facebook, Google provides the ability to opt out of the new shared endorsement program. But the new feature is frustratingly opt out, rather than opt in, so expect to see your friends recommending you products at some point soon.



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[geeteam]

WoW! that was fast...

[oliverjia]

WTF all these IT companies are doing? I have been tired of all these so called social networking stuff. Now they make me sick.

[OrbingStorm]

We are no longer human beings using a product..we are the product ourselves.

[Ambrocious]

We are no longer human beings using a product..we are the product ourselves.

Indeed, people are being used to get the whealthiest people even whealtheir so that it will be easier to slaughter us all down the road one day. Once they can get machines to replace humans with little to no flaws, they will begin "culling" the population, and that appears to be soon. This explains why it appears that the world is sinking into a darknesss, mankind must fight for thier freedom or willingly be enslaved, it's really that simple.

[Reefa]

Aint getting :shit: of me ;)

[ramiz0]

We are no longer human beings using a product..we are the product ourselves.

:o :D