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Anyone know how to contact google?

so i'm pretty unhappy about Google wanting to share my information, so i intend to switch to bing, and stop using gmail etc... but i have some concerns regarding my Android phone and the info they collect. i'd like to contact them to ask them questions, as well as let them know how shady and crappy they have become over the last couple years. But i have looked all over the web for a way to contact someone in Google, and cant seem to find any info. i can go to user discussion boards, but nobody at Google seems to want to listen to me yell. anyone know how to email an actual Google service person?

by ndcouch
asked 4 months ago

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YOU don't contact Google, GOOGLE contacts you. Just type what you wrote here in an email in your Gmail account and I'm sure someone at Google will read it and respond to you shortly. The answer may be in coded form, so pay attention to the ads you're served after you do this. Someone may be trying to send you a message.

90mcg112
4 months ago

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@ndcouch: http://www.google.com/contact/

carl669
4 months ago

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Have you tried googling your question?

rustybender
4 months ago

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Gmail?

woothulhu
4 months ago

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@ndcouch: You say that you want to leave Google, and that you have an Android phone. Those two things are in direct conflict with each other. I personally don't use Bing because I don't find it that useful. I use goosh.org to wrap google searches (which may or may not appeal to you). There's also Yahoo search, and any number of other search engines.

You can use other email accounts on your android, and it is possible, although VERY inconvenient, to not have an associated gmail address at all. Here's an informative article on how to do some of this:

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382337,00.asp

There's also this:

http://www.syncdroid.net/

You can send Google feedback via your Gmail account (this way is the most efficient), but it is unlikely that they will care. Not everyone who works there feels this way. Unfortunately for us, the "indifferent to us" folks are in control.

I may be back later...

shrdlu
4 months ago

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In general, the current terms of service, and information sharing, have not change from anything they weren't already doing. They're just combining it all, and owning up to it.

Google is a business. It is neither good, nor evil. I do not believe that corporations are people. As others have said, when I see a corporation on death row, I'll believe.

Trust no one. Question everything.

shrdlu
4 months ago

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Go to http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
It shows you what info they have collected on your browser cookie.
If you want to opt out go to the above link and click [remove or edit] in the "Your categories" section, then find the OptOut button.

If you want more "google privacy" they give you tools here
http://www.google.com/privacy/tools.html

If you are using chrome this is good http://code.google.com/p/chrome-opt-out-extension/

This lets you opt out of about a bazillion trackers http://www.aboutads.info/choices/

There is also this http://zapatopi.net/afdb/

spacezorro
4 months ago

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thanks for the responses guys. i don't think google is nearly as evil as Apple, but their "do no evil" mantra doesn't seem to be something they take as seriously as they use to.

ndcouch
4 months ago

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