Posted on 06/17/2023 1:23:11 PM PDT by CFW
Grab yer 50 cents and give Google your personal info again...
$23 million is nothing for a huge list of users they can sell
a group of lawyers get your personal info too...
What makes a valid claim? If you used a computer back then that you no longer have, how can you show that you used Google?
It seems to me a valid claim would simply be an assertion that you used Google without any proof.
Yada, yada yada.
My time is more valuable than that.
One indication would be having gmail from back when it was by invitation only.
>Never used Google Chrome, search, or anything Google on my Macs.
Maybe so, but I’m sure they’ve used you.
Install a cookie cleaner like “cookie autodelete” and you’ll be amazed at the crap that gets cleaned up.
“Individuals who submit an approved claim stand to receive approximately $7.70, based on the available data from the involved parties.”
Payable by auto-deposit. So it only costs them $7.70 to get a whole bunch of names, addresses, and bank account numbers Google never had prior to the claim. Have to be a fool to fall for this info mining trap.
“a group of lawyers get your personal info too...”
Yep... Info they did not have before.
The attorneys will rack up the fees in this case and will receive millions.
Indeed it’s what class action cases are all about.
I received 12 cents from a Farmers insurance case.
Select 23 people at random and give them a million each from the settlement. At least someone will get a useful amount of money.
48 million is bus fare to Google. It should have been 10 Billion to get their attention.
Thanks, but I can search and delete my own cookies via Safari settings. Don’t need to download anything to do it. I don’t download apps to either my laptop or iPhone.
Hereby throwing in my two cents.
We get pennies and the lawyers get millions.
Great! Pour those personal bank account numbers into Google's insatiable maw.
I've got a small cup where I throw my loose change that has more cash value than Google's "settlement."
About what I figured. I signed up anyway because my $7.70 is $7.70 some shyster lawyer won’t get. I’m thinking of it as a free Popeyes chicken sandwich......if they don’t take too long getting my windfall to me. ha ha
Oops, spoke too soon. I was referring to the similar FakeBook suit.
“People who used Google search between 2006 and 2013 could be eligible for a portion of a $23 million settlement in a class action lawsuit against the Big Tech giant.”
that’s gonna work out to about a nickle a person ...
Problem is... 999 out of a 1000 websites are using hidden “Google Services” like you can’t build a site without it. So just visit one site with Google service3s and they track everything you do until you do indeed go clear your cookies. You would have to clear your cookies in between every site and page you load to truly be Google free.
Or get “NoScript” which will do this for you on the fly in real time as you browse.
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