We’ve said in the past that we’re willing to put up with some of Google’s shadier antics mostly because its services are so useful. However, a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that Google has a new plan that could put our tolerance to the ultimate test. Per The Wall Street Journal, Google revealed in a letter to the SEC sent late last year that it has plans to serve users advertisements on “refrigerators, car dashboards, thermostats, glasses, and watches, to name just a few possibilities.” This puts Google’s acquisition of Nest into a whole different context — while Nest has pledged that Google won’t be allowed to snoop on you through your thermostat, that doesn’t mean that it
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