> What if you publish a negative review of a restaurant? Now it's
> super easy for them to find you and possibly harass you.
That's already the case if you publish restaurant reviews on Google
Maps, isn't the only difference here that those
reviews will be presented on search results?
Like Afterlife I really don't see what the big deal
is. They're taking data that's already public and presenting it
slightly differently.
But it's not presenting them in search results. What you opt out of isn't search result featuring, but instead featuring on a little shaded section of the page someone else is paying for. That's money Google collects because I'm the product. And in this case, they're cashing in twice -- featuring my smiling face, using one product to sell another. That's too much. I care about other people's search experience and I want them to have less ad space on a page, not more. So I opt out so my friends can more easily ignore ads and focus on content. If I recommend something, social search should mean it appears in search results for friends anyway, why should I give Google extra cash for using my face to advertise to my friends if they're not paying me?
Like Afterlife I really don't see what the big deal is. They're taking data that's already public and presenting it slightly differently.