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Is this live yet ? Just tried to add msn contacts to my jabber client and we couldn't make it work.

The tobacco industry is targeting teens and pre-teens too.

Sorry you have to learn it this way, but most people lie about birthdate as a number entered in an online form is no proof of age.

This is PR, you know devised by Freud's nephew Edward Bernays in the early 20th century, popularized by its infamous book "Propaganda".

Google's services and google data collection are two sides of the same coin. Make it possible to have google services without the data collection part would expose the actual data collection taking place and worse users could start asking to be disconnected from the data collection since it's now possible.

everything you mentioned seems to me to be ad targeting data, email, email address, thumbs up, save as fav even viewing a global google docs all this is part of data collected as part of the profiling process in order to do ad targeting.

Actually I don't think there is a single you do once logged on (or registered) that is not collected to profile you. facebook even collects what you do when logged off.

You'd do better by moving out of gmail (if you have one) and host your own mail as it was originally intended to be.

It's not absurd when you know that collecting data and google are two sides of the same coin.

Want your email free, just do it the internet way: host your own.

"If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." is the correct sentence [1], also you are welcome to explain why it's wrong according to you, but imho you are mistaken.

[1] http://www.metafilter.com/95152/Userdriven-discontent#325604...

This is a common case of "If you are not paying for it, you are the product being sold.", this is what happens when you engage in careless computing and put your data on a third party remote server under their control.

Don't be careless and it won't come back and bite you.