MacPowell users episode 77 dumping Google. Hello everyone this is David Sparks along with me is Katie

Hi Katie. Hey David so So this show is a book

into episode 58 where we talked about the Google lifestyle. We got you all

excited about Google. Now we're going to tell you how to get Google out of your life.

So you mean we got everybody to sign up and throw all of their information into Google and give

away all of their personal secrets and now we're going to tell them that was a really bad

idea? Well we're going to discuss the issue at least.

Okay. It seems like there is a kind of a backlash against Google the last two or three months

or maybe even going on longer than that.

And I think that's really something to start talking about before we get into why or how

to get rid of some of the Google Services.

Well, the issue has been around for a while. I mean we've all known that we are not

Google's customer, we are Google's product. And we've all known that Google makes their

money by selling our information to their actual

customers.

So there has always been an issue with Google using our information, but that issue has become

crystallized a little more recently with their updates to their privacy policy and there have been quite a bit of negative response.

And I think people just as a result of some of the publicity around this have become more aware of exactly what

Google is doing and the type of information that they're collecting and I think

awareness is always a good thing. Yeah and I think also part of it is just some of the conduct that Google has done.

They have in some ways hurt the services that everybody has come to know and love and in other

ways, you know, take an affirmative action that isn't really very admirable I guess is the

...