>>33 the privacy issues around Google are mostly unfounded.
Cookies are not a security risk and are not a threat
If someone gets access to your cookies they do not gain any personal information about you.
The only personal information Google has about you is your IP address [...] which cannot be used to personally identify you
if you don't want them to have this information, do not give it to them.
I am a well information website publisher, thus I know all the ins and outs of cookie usage
I have the most open level of cookie settings. Why? Because I know they are benign and have mostly been given a bad reputation in the media.
I see no possible privacy threat with Google using a small cookie to allow you to customize the search a little bit.
no one has yet to put a gun to my head and force me to use it.
It is a free service and he is complaining about the ads? Google has to make money too
Google is run by people with principles and ethics.
I find it hard to take any privacy threat from an optional service seriously
you should trust the companies that you do business with