Jerry,
If you want a real eye opener as to how Google operates and gets info. about your likes/dislikes I suggest you watch a documentary called 'The Creepy Line'. I watched it on Amazon's Fire Stick but imagine it is available in several venues. You may just go back to sending smoke signals from atop a big hill after watching.
When a parent sends his kids to school.... even 50yrs ago...... the child is forced into an indoctrinary environment.
When a person drives down the road or reads the paper, or a book..... he is in an indoctrinary environment.
When I'm on this BRC forum, I'm voluntarily involved in an indoctrinary environment.
When I'm at a match, I'm in an indoctrinary environment.
I guess what I'm saying is... for an environment to be EFFECTIVE, it must be rife with indoctrination. This is why in the real world our parents raised us to be cautious of strangers, to not go into that old guys house and to trust NOTHING we see, read or hear
and to cultivate the art of discernment.
CIVILIZATION depends on this discernment, it's what raises us above the worms.
What scares me..... REALLY scares me...... is that ordinary people don't seem to consider the ramifications of the internet, to realize that TO BE EFFECTIVE, TO BE GOOD and TO BE USEFUL it absolutely must be free of control. Or that the controls must favor the intended usage. That is MUST be either regulated by the owner and his rules (like this site) OR it must be un-censored public domain.......I found 'The Creepy Line' to be a boring waste of my time, an hour and twenty minutes of people sonorously restating the obvious. Then pompously gabbling on about "fixing the problem" by regulation and control of these entrepeneurs they refer to a "gods"....... the inmates want to control the asylum, the workers want to make decisions for the boss by assigning or imposing THEIR idea(s) of "fairness" onto the thing.
"fairness"
"trust"
"evil"
"good"
"control"
all stupidwords where someone's trying to tell me how and what to think of another man's work.
Some geeks came up with a better newspaper, a bigger billboard, a louder bullhorn....... and the world's response is "crucify them!!"
I say "it's their room, ya' play by their rules!"
Or leave the room.
