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Although we are not sure why anyone would need it, the Guardian put together a "How To Stop Using Google" guide for anyone looking to ditch every Google product out there (email, video, maps, etc.).

Want to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? From its humble beginnings as a project at Stanford University, the company has grown into one which has become almost unavoidable online – and in some cases offline.
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That would solve more than Google use. Please refer back to step 1.
 
Steve said:
Want to show Google that you don't approve of its tax-avoidance tactics? From its humble beginnings as a project at Stanford University, the company has grown into one which has become almost unavoidable online – and in some cases offline.
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No. I want them to TEACH ME! :D
 
Steve said:
The Guardian put together a "How To Stop Using Google" guide for anyone looking to ditch every Google product out there (email, video, maps, etc.).
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Wait wait wait. Stop using Google in favor of many MS products? A company, like so many others (Apple, Cisco, Yahoo, list goes on) who do the same thing in tax avoidance?

I thought the article from the lady about Google Now was bad. This one takes the cake.

If you want to stop supporting companies that dodge taxes....well Crosshairs said it right:

Crosshairs said:
step 1) kill yourself..:)
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Vermillion said:
Wait wait wait. Stop using Google in favor of many MS products? A company, like so many others (Apple, Cisco, Yahoo, list goes on) who do the same thing in tax avoidance?

I thought the article from the lady about Google Now was bad. This one takes the cake.

If you want to stop supporting companies that dodge taxes....well Crosshairs said it right:
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All of this.
 
So I tried that Duckduckgo search site. It don't give me latina big booty images :(
 
Stop using them because of tax avoidence? Why? Do they expect companies to purposefully be idiots? Goverment never did anything for them. Why piss money away for nothing.
 
So avoid a company for tax avoidance.. A company that follows tax laws written by the government. If a company has come up with some crazy way to not pay their "Fair share" its because there is a tax law book out there with a law that allows them to do it.

If they just decided one day they weren't going to pay a certain amount expect the government to come at them full force. You don't get that big without people monitoring every single thing you do. Including what you pay in taxes.

/soapbox.
 
This is just retarded. Everyone out there uses the US Tax code / International tax law and it's many loop-holes to find and use the most creative ways to reduce their tax burdens. I assure you Google is not different than Apple or any other person / company.

Someones overzealous and highly uneducated biased view of Google. Nothing more.
 
I have no problems, zero with Googles tax avoidance tactics. I encourage them to continue or any other company or individual for that matter.
 
Problem: countries have complex and non-uniform tax laws
Solution: don't use Google?
 
I don't directly use anything from Google anyway. I wouldn't change my habits because of their tax policy, regardless.
 
So to thwart Google for tax evasion...

I should use Apple "Maps"...

Because Apple does not have a $150 billion dollars offshore that they are not paying taxes on..

Why is the world dumb :rolleyes:
 
I would be more interested in an article that spelled out how to stop using all billion-dollar corporations at once, instead of just switching from one to the other.
 
Huh? This article is written by a Brit (I presume for Brits...). So is he complaining about Google not paying British taxes specifically? I really sort of hope so. Because I'm an American and I don't want our current government to have any more taxes to waist than is absolutely necessary. Which means I'm greatly encouraged, by this editorial, to use Google even more (if I could...). ;)
 
I'm not normally a grammar Nazi but if you're going to highlight and bold a word you should at least use the right word...
 
You can avoid all the google privacy issues and still use many google services, just log out.
 
The only google thing that I use regularly is youtube and that is all. (I play around with the chrome browser but do not use it much.) However, I have no google account at all and that is the way it will stay.
 
ManofGod said:
The only google thing that I use regularly is youtube and that is all. (I play around with the chrome browser but do not use it much.) However, I have no google account at all and that is the way it will stay.
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You don't really avoid google unless you block their analytics scripts which happen to infest 99% of all sites.
 
Vermillion said:
Wait wait wait. Stop using Google in favor of many MS products? A company, like so many others (Apple, Cisco, Yahoo, list goes on) who do the same thing in tax avoidance?

I thought the article from the lady about Google Now was bad. This one takes the cake.

If you want to stop supporting companies that dodge taxes....well Crosshairs said it right:
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Well i think if you put the tax crap on top of the other issues surrounding google MS looks pretty damn good. The privacy is what concerns me about google. None of your info is yours or private.

I remember in the earlier days of the web that being one of the main concerns of email. "what if some hacker can read my private mail"? Was a big question back in the day and here we are now KNOWING without a doubt that google does read your email and so few even make a peep about it??? Its interesting how slippery of a slope it was leading to all of this.
 
Don't whine about tax avoidance and loopholes when you voted for the lawmakers that created those.
 
Tax avoidance is the responsibility of every person and company on the planet, and is their legal right to pursue. Paying taxes is the same thing as throwing away investor money. Investors aren't investing in your government, they're investing in your company, so you should try and hang onto every single one of their dollars you can so you can leverage it to grow your business.
 
I have nothing against avoiding taxes, we already pay enough as is, and the government always wants even more out of us. If there are ways to legally avoid some of these then all the power to you.

On the other hand, the last entity that needs to be doing this is multi billion dollar corporations who have insane money coming out of every orifice.
 
Yes, let's have google voluntarily pay more in taxes. Oh and while we're at it, the same people yelling for google to "voluntarily pay more" should voluntarily start paying google for gmail and google search and google maps. Then google will have the money to pay for the taxes.

Let's see how well that works out.
 
Well,
I'll use their search, their maps, and youtube....never have much desire for anything else

I never see their ads (it's all filtered out, funny how it all works that way)

I think it's ridiculous to base it all on "tax avoidance". That's the last thing I would even consider. When I clicked on the link and saw that, all I could do is laugh (wtf). If that's the reason to stop using Google, then there is no reason.

startpage.com has been offered....interesting, but I make my own startpages so I thought this was kinda funny.

Bing might be ok if I had to go elsewhere, but Google does usually give better results.

This article might be of use to some, but for me it's as good as it's going to get.
 
floppy? lmao....good one guys :)
as I get older, it feels more like a floppy than a SSD
lol
 
Okay, let me make sure I understand this:

- Google has privacy issues and wants to make sure you have maximum advertising on your every connected device ... no problem

- Google engages in the occasional anti competitive behaviour ... no problem

- Google periodically discontinues various useful services ... no problem

- Google uses legal government mechanisms to minimize their tax burden (the same as most multinationals do) ... BOYCOTT :eek:

I think if people literally wanted to put their money where their mouth is on this one they should forgo all multinational corps and only buy from local businesses ... otherwise this action is pointless (actually it is pretty pointless either way :D )

:cool:
 
Disposed said:
Well i think if you put the tax crap on top of the other issues surrounding google MS looks pretty damn good. The privacy is what concerns me about google. None of your info is yours or private.

I remember in the earlier days of the web that being one of the main concerns of email. "what if some hacker can read my private mail"? Was a big question back in the day and here we are now KNOWING without a doubt that google does read your email and so few even make a peep about it??? Its interesting how slippery of a slope it was leading to all of this.
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And Microsoft doesn't scan your e-mail to throw ads at you? If you believe that you're deluded. Same with Yahoo (which uses Bing).

They all do it now. It's all about the advertising revenue. Don't delude yourself.
 
:rolleyes:

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Vermillion said:
And Microsoft doesn't scan your e-mail to throw ads at you? If you believe that you're deluded. Same with Yahoo (which uses Bing).

They all do it now. It's all about the advertising revenue. Don't delude yourself.
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No, they actually don't. You see its not about advertising revenue to anyone but Google. Microsoft is not an advertising company, Google is.
 
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