The Onion strikes again, announcing Google Opt Out today, a product that lets people opt out of Google’s information gathering activities by having their home destroyed and moving to a covered villiage complex at an undisclosed location. As always, they nail it. Video is below.
For some additional time wasting this afternoon, see some of Google’s April Fools jokes mixed in with more Onion stories. One of the links below is actually a real product. Try to guess which one before you click on any.
Via CrunchGear
- Google Purge (Google Purge will destroy all information that Google is otherwise unable to index)
- Google Chrome goes 3D
- AdSense for Spoken Conversations
- Mail Goggles for Gmail (to check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email)
- Google Wake Up Kit
- Google And Virgin Team For Human Settlement On Mars
- Google TiSP (a free, self installed free home wireless broadband service)
- Google Paper (email printing service)
Brilliant video, the onion are awesome.
I have to check it every day.
Feel bad for people who don’t get it.
This is just too funny. Google, Bing, Yahoo all are really awful when it comes to privacy.
I think the best alternative is http://www.yauba.com whose privacy policy is just 9 words long:
“We do not keep any personally identifiable information. Period.”
Okey, you missed to list one more TC post in the end. Google and Yahoo opt out button http://www.tech...ing-you-opt-in/
Hilarous, I love The Onion!
Sweet, I remembered the real product.
The opt-out village is already getting rave reviews:
“We are all alone no light
Hard to breath
Don’t know how much longer I can go on”
Now that’s one man whose data is secure.
Lollerskates.
Sad truth.
The Onion is the best
haha good stuff. I enjoyed the last line “to find out more about the village, email a question to your friend and google will get back to you in 24 hours”. hahaha
You forgot Google Mind.
Hilarious
Am I the only one who does not like the Onion?
I dispute your opinion that you don’t like the onion. everybody likes the onion.
Agreed, you can’t not like the Onion…
It’s like saying: “I don’t like air”.
Just use AAfter Search