Microsoft breathes new fire into the life of Scroogled, its anti-Google campaign, with a line of products that burn Google for treating your data the same way that Microsoft does. November 20, 2013 2:48 PM PST Microsoft's Scroogled mug pokes fun at Google's customer data mining. Nevermind that Microsoft behaves very similarly, of course. (Credit: Microsoft) "Keep calm," warns Microsoft's Scroogled T-shirt and coffee mug, riffing on the World War II British motivational poster, "while we steal your data." Wait, what? That" s not very proper of them. > Related stories: Carriers reject idea of phone kill switch Google Wallet now offers debit card Microsoft's Xbox One preorders play hard to get China workers protest as Nokia-Microsoft deal progresses Microsoft launches Xbox One SmartGlass app The new line of Scroogled outerwear and houseware (but not underwear) from the Microsoft Store cautions you against oversharing with Google, thanks to a Scroogled logo hat; a word cloud T-shirt with, as the description puts it, more than "20 synonyms for how Google is taking advantage of you;" and the aforementioned coffee mugs and T-shirts. The description for the Spider Web T-shirt is equally sardonic. "Google is the spider. Google services are the spider web. You're the fly. You know what happens next," it reads. A shirt featuring the Chrome browser logo wearing a fedora and a trenchcoat, playing off of Chrome's private browsing Incognito mode icon, sounds another alarm. "Do you use Google Search? Or Gmail? Or Google Chat? Or Chrome? Then Google is watching you...all the time." The campaign follows last year's " Neither Microsoft nor Google immediately responded when asked for comment, but it's hard to imagine that Google is happy about the latest Scroogling.
Microsoft breathes new fire into the life of Scroogled, its anti-Google campaign, with a line of products that burn Google for treating your data the same way that Microsoft does.
Microsoft's Scroogled mug pokes fun at Google's customer data mining. Nevermind that Microsoft behaves very similarly, of course.
(Credit: Microsoft)
"Keep calm," warns Microsoft's Scroogled T-shirt and coffee mug, riffing on the World War II British motivational poster, "while we steal your data."
Wait, what? That" s not very proper of them. >
Related stories:
- Carriers reject idea of phone kill switch
- Google Wallet now offers debit card
- Microsoft's Xbox One preorders play hard to get
- China workers protest as Nokia-Microsoft deal progresses
- Microsoft launches Xbox One SmartGlass app
The new line of Scroogled outerwear and houseware (but not underwear) from the Microsoft Store cautions you against oversharing with Google, thanks to a Scroogled logo hat; a word cloud T-shirt with, as the description puts it, more than "20 synonyms for how Google is taking advantage of you;" and the aforementioned coffee mugs and T-shirts.
The description for the Spider Web T-shirt is equally sardonic. "Google is the spider. Google services are the spider web. You're the fly. You know what happens next," it reads.
A shirt featuring the Chrome browser logo wearing a fedora and a trenchcoat, playing off of Chrome's private browsing Incognito mode icon, sounds another alarm. "Do you use Google Search? Or Gmail? Or Google Chat? Or Chrome? Then Google is watching you...all the time."
The campaign follows last year's "
