Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack

nonprofiteer writes "With a program called Screenwise, Google is offering a total of $25 in Amazon gift cards to anyone willing to install a Chrome browser extension that will let the search giant track every website the user visits and what they do there over a year-long period. Google says it will study this in order to improve its products and services. Forbes points out that $25 in Amazon credits isn't quite enough to buy a six pack of Marshmallow Fluff ($26.75)." The money isn't much as a pure trade for privacy, but I suspect that many people would like to have their preferences be among those that shape how Google — and other companies, too — actually organize their interfaces. (Note that the tracking can be selectively turned off by the user.)

Maybe Google can get my age and gender right

[sandytaru]

Since they got it so very wrong, wrong, wrong on the first go round.

Great idea

[Megahard]

I'm installing it on the wife's computer.

Re:Great idea

[Oswald McWeany]

Install it on the library computer.

Re:Maybe Google can get my age and gender right

[Oswald McWeany]

Sorry, I trust google more than some random person on the web. How do you know you're not wrong about your age and gender?

I think you should accept the fact that you're not what you think you are.

Re:If any google employee can stomach what I surf

[Oswald McWeany]

Google would show good humour if "marshmallow fluff" were the name of the next Android OS release.

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Re:Great idea

[Anonymous Coward]

I've already been tracking your wife's computer usage, screenshots, webcam, etc - for years.

And she seems to enjoy watching midgets shit on old people.

Re:Maybe Google can get my age and gender right

[0racle]

There are, in fact, girls on the Internet.

No, there are not.