remove a probably confusing remark

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@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ This post is about why I don't have a Google Scholar profile (yet).
 First of all, having a Google Scholar profile requires a Google account.
 There is no technical necessity for this, Google already indexes my papers and other databases (like the aforementioned dblp) manage to create per-author pages just fine without authors having to have an account.
 But, of course, this is a great way for Google to tie more people into their ecosystem -- few kinds of pressure are as effective as when this directly affects hiring decisions.
-I have so far successfully avoided having a Google account, even if that means having to solve reCAPTCHA in hardcore mode all the time (yet another way in which Google not-so-subtly nudges people to "opt"-in to them tracking their every step).
+I have so far successfully avoided having a Google account, even if that means having to solve reCAPTCHA in hardcore mode all the time (yet another way in which Google not-so-subtly nudges people to "opt"-in to them tracking their every step in the web, joining other pieces like Google Analytics, Google Ads and AMP).
 There is a reason I am running my Android phone with [F-Droid](https://f-droid.org/) and [microG](https://microg.org/), and [Yalp store](https://github.com/yeriomin/YalpStore) for the rare case that I need a (free) app from the Play store.
 
 At this point I was ready for the compromise of creating an account (that I'd never use) using only [publicly available information](https://people.mpi-sws.org/~jung/contact.html) about me.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ This is not restricted to Google, of course: I have heard of lectures at my univ
 
 I think it is immoral to force people to create accounts in their private name and make them give away their private data.
 Creating an account with Google or Facebook is signing a contract (and one full of dubious data-sharing clauses at that), and I am not entering that contract out of my own free will.
-(This is very different from accounts I had when working for Mozilla, which were part of a contract between Mozilla and the third party and where I did not have to create an account as a private person. Also, Mozilla actually makes a point of negotiating reasonable data protection clauses for such cases, something I as an individual cannot hope to achieve.)
+Sure, I *could* refuse -- but at which cost?
 
 So, as one tiny of many necessary steps, can we avoid using Google Scholar for making hiring decisions?
 There are other platforms that perform citation analysis, for example [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/author/Ralf-Jung/16346001).