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I'm Drew Breunig and I obsess about technology, media, language, and culture. I live in New York, studied anthropology, and work in advertising technology.

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Google, when I clicked “Turn Off Buzz” I meant it.

Just an FYI. Clicking “Turn off Buzz” in Gmail doesn’t turn off your profile. It just turns off your own access to it in Gmail. I just discovered this while using Google on my iPhone. The Buzz icon is still sitting atop the page, I can post via my app and now it keeps asking for my location.

Default search on my phone is now set to Yahoo. My mail will shortly be migrated over to another solution. Free email is not worth the cost of not being able to fully control your data or your public presence.