User-controlled privacy blocking is existential to Google because tracking feeds its profit engine

Evidence

Google is under enormous pressure from the financial community to increase the “effectiveness” of its tracking, so that it can increase revenues and profits. Giving a user the ability to control his own privacy information (and to protect himself from malware) by blocking invisible connections to problematic sites constitutes an existential threat to Google. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 433

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Google’s refusal to allow opt-out reflects its extractive economics, not mere product choice — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 483; Google institutionalized secrecy to sustain behavioral surplus extraction — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 279; Surveillance capitalists deliberately conceal how their platforms monetize user behavior — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1411 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Privacy protections are structurally incompatible with surveillance capitalism’s accumulation logic #corroborates (0.80) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 601
• Google institutionalized secrecy to sustain behavioral surplus extraction #corroborates (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 279
• Surveillance capitalists deliberately conceal how their platforms monetize user behavior #corroborates (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1411
• Google institutionalized surveillance capitalism by simply declaring its right to take experience as data #corroborates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1078