Google will send you an Amazon gift card for completely giving up your online privacy

[Syrinx]

Google will send you a $5 Amazon gift card if you "add a browser extension that will share with Google the sites you visit and how you use them." Then they'll send you another $5 card every three months you keep the extension installed.

But if you want to go for the big money, they'll send you a special router for you to install. You'll get $100 upfront, and then $20 a month.

But hurry. This offer is limited.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/02/google-paying-users-to-track-100-of-their-web-usage-via-little-black-box.ars

[sakabatou]

1. Fuck no.

[Zalatix]

2. Whiskey. Tango. FOXTROT!!!

[jberryhill]

3. And Nielsen ratings used to pay people to have their TV watching monitored

Site popularity determines advertising rates, and that is valuable information.

What is wrong with paying people to do the same thing that people used to get paid to do with televisions?

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. $20/month - more than I pay for my ISP

I think a lot of people will be tempted. If you do it for a couple of years, it'll pay for a new computer.

[Javaman]

5. Set up a dummy computer and let it cook.

never use it and just keep collecting the gift cards.

[madokie]

7. Thats what I just sent to my friend

both of us have an old internet ready computer thats collecting dust. 20 bucks a month would pay my water bill most months

[madokie]

6. I've got an old computer that is internet ready

a router that would let me connect to the internet with. I wonder if I could get one of these data collectors and connect it to the computer that I wouldn't be using except an occasional clik on an ad and get my money and monthly payments.

I have google blocked in my firefox preferences now and I do just fine so I will continue like this on my personal computer though.

[Nye Bevan]

8. How much do I get for installing a Google video camera in my bathroom? (nt)