How much do we google and how much are we googled...?!

Duck Duck Go is a privacy oriented browser and it's available in app store, play store and as an extension for Google Chrome, but how many of you know about it and use it? I found about the duck quite recently and I was that lazy I haven't even installed it. Why? Because I am too comfy with the good old google. The pal that knows everything about me and has always a helping hand when I most need it.

Well, not everything, but it knows my name, my gmail address, my phone number, mails I've sent and received, videos I watched on Youtube, it knows where I live because I want to get back home quickly while using the google maps, it knows where I worked and it knows almost anything that I've searched on the web and has almost all of my "virtual steps" tracked...just in case.

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Why? Because I gave it my consent. I wanted the convenience of having a simple life with everything at a touch of a button or an inch of a screen. I almost forgot. There is one more reason for why google does all of the things I wrote above. Because it is free, making me a product and selling me to advertisers and who knows who else.

Does it bother me that much that it tracks my ass and much more of me almost every second I am using my smartphone or my laptop or even just by carrying them? Not really because I've got nothing to hide but I wished it didn't. I can delete all of the data that the giant has about me and I've done that in the google account at the My Activity section by hitting Delete activity by but that is just temporary.

As soon as I open the search bar or go to youtube I'll start a new set of trails that need a delete once in a while and the story goes on. I could delete my google account, give up on gmail, youtube and stop using google maps but what's the point of living the modern world then. I could sell my smartphone as well and take the Nokia 3310 out of the shelf if I would want to go back to the 90's and "live free again". I am keeping calm and googling though...

But I know about google that it knows everything about me and I know what a good pal he is.... It wouldn't be the first one of this kind. It is googling us with our consent though and the "spider web" that it it's creating is getting thicker and thicker and stronger and stronger. It's part of living the modern life though and it's hard to be an outsider nowadays. Almost impossible. Something like cutting out sugar...or even worse. It's everywhere and sometimes you've ate it without even knowing it...

Thanks for attention and have a great day!
Adrian