To the Editor: In his By the Book interview (Feb. 14), Bill Gates writes about how Google searches can be used to "make life better." I would rather that people could search without being tracked. The acceptance of the "end user" as a nobody to manipulate and collect information on is increasingly sophisticated and increasingly inappropriate, and I look forward to a growing resistance to it. It's great that Gates is against climate change. However, having worked vainly as of late to keep Microsoft from telling me what I'm typing — all in my best interest, of course — while being informed that my "data makes ads more meaningful" as if I wanted more meaningful ads, I'm less and less interested in hearing tech moguls opine on much of anything.