This friday Google announced a change in its terms and services, which will allow the company to include adult users’ names, photos and comments in ads shown across the Web, based on ratings, reviews and posts they have made on Google Plus and other Google services like YouTube. The new ad policy goes live Nov. 11, Google will be able to show what the company calls shared endorsements on Google sites and across the Web, on the more than two million sites in Google’s display advertising network, which are viewed by an estimated one billion people.
Sites like Facebook and Twitter have been using a similar system for selling ads This has raised some privacy concerns from people and could at some point hurt the companies if users get tired of all the ads or having their input or ideas used by companies without really getting their direct consent.
What are your thoughts and opinions on this?
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