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tdicola on Jan 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google outed me

I'd love to know what benefits the real name system has been providing users. It seems like it's causing more outrage and problems (i.e. recent Youtube comment redesign) than actual good.

blueskin_ on Jan 23, 2014 | [–]

It lets google scrape more data to profit from.

Oh, you meant benefit to users? None. They're the product as far as google is concerned.

junto on Jan 23, 2014 | [–]

Now the advertisers and the NSA know who tdicola really is. That's the point of real names as far as I can see.

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