Google's war on Microsoft only results in consumer casualties

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disolitude said:

dallas said:

disolitude said:

Pjams said:

kowenicki said:
The same people that slag off MS and their supposed aggressive business practices now love Google for some reason. Google are the most aggressive, underhand business on the planet right now. Don't trust them one bit.

They steal your puppy or something?

Google would never steal a puppy...they would find it and return it for free however the new puppy would have AdSense and Adwords running in the background without your knowledge.

As if msft doesn't track what users do, either.  Msft can track whatever it wants since it owns the windows platform, and they do it bc this gives them more $$$$

Now youre just making stuff up about Microsoft to justify what Google does. Stuff that microsoft tracks and what Google tracks is completely different and for a completely different purpose. Not to mention that you can opt out of Microsoft tracking and can't really opt out of Google if you use a single service they provide.

Actually, that opt-out doens't mean a lot. You can't see the source code to be sure that there isn't any other tracking type here, so we can't be 100% certain about what is going on there.

Anyway, that isn't a correct (and legal) attitude from Google. They only fixed it because EU would surelly retaliate, but they probably will create more problems in the next months with other services. Anywa, I have a WP and only used Bing Maps and Google Maps using a third party app (gMaps Pro, pretty good, by the way), since using a map with the browser is terrible on a phone. I live in Brazil and I don't know how is Bing Maps in other countries, but here it isn't very good. It doesn't have the locations of any store, restaurant or any other thing here, so I have to use the full adress and that is just terrible compared to Google Maps.