QUOTE(caxerx @ Mar 1 2020, 20:11)
I can't see the reason why I should not use Chrome in the first place.
As others have said,Google. It is one of the biggest supporters of Big Data along with law enforcement, insurers, and lifestyle statistics aggregators. As an example of how google's automated data collection can result in a Big Data prediction, the google search results for stores (when you are moving about on the map) shows when each store, service center, or facility opens, closes, and its amount of visitors across the day. It knows when you close because there are a bunch of google android cellphones walking inside the store suddenly at 8AM and then only a few wandering android phones (of employees) after 9PM so it concludes that the facility has closed at 9PM.
Google has been mapping insides of stores too such as the aisles are even marked. I used to be a frequent reviewer on google's store/restaurant reviewer service, so I'd see all sorts of amusing things like that. Google even knew when I was inside my local Costco's food court and how long I was there eating and not just the other parts of Costco in general. I remember seeing that stat item about myself back when google did allow me to see. I have GM OnStar and for a time, GM did list in my account all sorts of things like usage of turn signals and how many hard braking situations occurred each day. I was even able to see charts of my data showing uptrends and downtrends on safety item predictions. But then GM suddenly closed off such access to me despite having registered as a member of their beta items review group.
So, you should be concerned about Big Data. There are ways to shove it down your throat too to make you the consumer pay via unforeseen consequences. For example, there are some sites that check if someone has dropped your email (anyone hate you) into a CP site. Then, if you go to a site like MYLIFE which puts together Big Data packages and summary conclusions about that person for sale, you see that if you have adverse info, you can block display of it by paying a subscription fee. During the preparation of MYLIFE data on a request, you see if a person is suspected of accessing a CP site or not and MYLIFE will stamp that flag onto data it sells. To temporarily block that flag from sold data, the person can buy an annual subscription. This is like blackmail. So, you see how even if you don't care about Google Big Data, that carelessness may come back to haunt you when you use a site like sad panda and make comments or vote on comments here and there. But eventually, you may find Big Data firms registering spider accounts at any place that has a "low lolicon" or "lolicon" tag and then it will record the account names of any user that has commented in gallery comments. It then goes to the forum sites and as well as internet headers of USENET, general ISP forum posts, or wherever to try to correlate a name to an email to an ISP. Or they can purchase the data from google since as you know, google makes most of its huge money from leveraging its big data.