yeah right so its completely OK with you to have google spy on you behind your back in background but its a sin to have microsoft give you the option to enable it and its disabled by default
i dont give a thing about xb1, i hate console except the older ones upto ps2 and portables like psp and ps vita so i dont really care about spying there as long as its not like google
as for me agreeing with google, hell no , id rather live in a cave than let google sell my private info to some ad retailer
usually the ads are misleading and "kinky" or suspicious even for smallest of search results
you seem to like the google life with poor quality,spying and sale of your info to shady ad companies etc but microsoft is a devil for offering you an off-switch
just fyi microsoft doesnt spy with the xb1 on dear 10 year olds or something, that was a rumour before release and microsoft released a statement denying it
microsoft makes money off us consumers and so does apple yes but atleast our data is safe and within limits and we get wayy better quality with apple and microsoft than google
android tabs are the best example and are a huuge joke compared to the ipad and windows 8 tabs, they lack quality and smoothness
google has become an evil corp recently , sadly , accept it and move on
"Spy" and "behind your back" imply that I didn't agree to it up front. It isn't a human reading these, while it theoretically could be. Can you factually prove, with sources that Microsoft isn't watching what you type on your Windows computers and sending it back to their servers? I mean conclusively prove? And before you ask, I'm running Firefox, not Chrome.
You might not "give a thing", but that isn't the point. That is still a big issue, and a concern. I could say "I don't use google signed in on my computers, and I use a VPN, so google tracking 'is not a thing to me'" but I still refuted the point.
Google outright says they don't sell to an ad retailer. Do you use Facebook? They do that. Google does EBay style auctions for phrases, like "best dentist" or "fastest car" and they keep the info. There is an "off switch" by the way, called signing out. Can you point me to hard proof that they aren't listening to them? I found an article pointing the other way:
Kinect for Xbox One: An always-on, works-in-the-dark camera and microphone. What could possibly go wrong? | ExtremeTech
It isn't safe, as the article I mentioned shows as a fact, they can go to the server room to read anyone's email, whenever they want. Do you use PGP encrypted email for everything? No?
I didn't say how dare they make money. What I said, or I thought at least implied was:
Google makes their money soley off of ads. They can only get these ads if people trust them, so their privacy and profits go hand in hand. Microsoft gets money from enough places that if no one trusted their data to Microsoft, they'd still be ok.
I like how you again referenced so many articles, and factual proof to say it's a huge joke that they lack quality and smoothness. I mean, that must be a fact, as look at sales numbers, Android is severely lagging. I like the W8 tabs, but honestly, if the "lack of quality and smoothness" was what most people felt, would they continue to buy them?
"google has become an evil corp recently , sadly , accept it and move on" again, I like your well documented proof. I will stop using services that stop using services I find better than Microsofts, as in Google search, Gmail (I never get spam to my Gmail, yes I occasionally see an ad from Google directly, but that's better than the ads I see in my Outlook.com), and Google Voice is a lifesaver when I can't get cell signal, but I can get wifi. To each their own.
Thanks for your hard hitting fact based expose!
PS I like some Microsoft services better than Google's, but still, F.U.D. isn't good for anyone.