Privacy is a big deal to me. I don’t mind Google know a lot about me. It’s fine. It’s Google’s partners know a lot about me and that’s when I have a lot of problems. It’s largely why I’ve moved away from Google with most of the basic searches and have been using Duckduckgo for quite some time now. For more than a year, DDG has been my go-to search engine. And the 10% of the times that I am not satisfied with the search results from DDG, I go to Bing or Google.

Even so, searching on Google is no big deal. However, more and more users have become wary of Google and attacks about how we are Google’s products have started to stick. That is a fair statement.

Perhaps, it’s time for Google to go back the days of people have to pay for services and give people the option of not being tracked. Yes, I’m talking about giving users the option to pay for services, avoid ads, and be tracked only for services like Google Now. If users are willing to pay, give them the privilege to have more control of their personal information.
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