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		bdcravens on July 3, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google to developers: We take down your extension ... That's the thing that makes Google a more challenging beast than Facebook: you don't have to have an account to be an asset for Google, and you likely feed them more data all the time.

pgeorgi on July 4, 2018 [–]

All those like buttons on the net can be used by Facebook to create shadow profiles, too.

bdcravens on July 4, 2018 | [–]

Definitely, though between search, communicating with the many Gmail users, AdWords, YouTube, and Android's marketshare, Google Map's dominance, etc, Google is IMO far more ubiquitous

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