Attn: everyone on the internet: YOU HAVE NO PRIVACY
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Yes, what we need are companies directly influencing our spending habits and free time, what could go wrong?
I think a good portion of the outrage over this stuff is based around people having an overly inflated sense of importance.
This is known.
Google actually lets companies scan your gmail account.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google...s-to-scan-data-from-gmail-accounts-1537459989
Google actually lets companies scan your gmail account.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google...s-to-scan-data-from-gmail-accounts-1537459989
zoggy take a deep breath.
And I'll be there in 5 minutes with 2 suits to bring you to the re- education center.
truth isn't truth
privacy isn't privacy
2+2=5
Oh Eff off. There's a difference between being a Ludite and wanting some basic security for yourself. Hell, the only reason that we even ended up in this situation with Google, Apple, and et cetera is because of dumbasses like you screaming "it doesn't matter." Go back and crawl into your hole.
I think this is about people complaining that Facebook sells your "like" history. Or reading your text messages. Stuff like that.
Threatening to quit Facebook and whatnot.
It's not just Facebook. Hell, Google probably logs and sells ALL your clicks you click on in Chrome.
If you want to truely control your privacy, you have to quit the internet. Period.
Threatening to quit Facebook and whatnot.
It's not just Facebook. Hell, Google probably logs and sells ALL your clicks you click on in Chrome.
If you want to truely control your privacy, you have to quit the internet. Period.
If youtube is any indication of the strength of their algorithms then it's just the last video I clicked on which defines what I want to watch for an eternity.
I once (and only once) liked a post in Portuguese on Google+, now more than half my spam folder is in Portuguese, and much of that is trying to sell me English lessons. Although I can read Portuguese because it's a romance language, I neither understand nor speak the spoken language and wouldn't know enough even to say good morning in written Portuguese.
Really? The thread started off with OP angrily ranting at the forum.
People now: "I don't care, I have nothing to hide LOL!"
People in 10 years when these profiles will affect your life: "Oh shit."
People in 10 years when these profiles will affect your life: "Oh shit."
Some day I'll see this talked about seriously again but today is not that day.
People said this same stuff ten years ago, and I have yet to be impacted by Google and Facebook knowing what I like.
That's pretty defeatist of you OP
We are rapidly approaching a time when that's nigh impossible. I kind of admire the hustle that Google etc have going in making themselves indispensable to modern life.
Attn OP:
You're being a flippant asshole
Yes people are aware being online means the barriers of privacy have been removed, but it doesn't mean people can't speak up and protest in hopes of getting some semblance of balance back.
You're being a flippant asshole
Yes people are aware being online means the barriers of privacy have been removed, but it doesn't mean people can't speak up and protest in hopes of getting some semblance of balance back.
I wish I were confident enough to believe I'd still be alive in 10 years. As for everyone else, lol sounds like yall are gonna be screwed then but good luck anyway
Sometimes the bigger picture goes beyond how it impacts your life.
Social Media, and people's "privacy", being leveraged in ways to incite political violence and/or predator spending is a problem
This is my position as well. I'm probably the most boring person in the world. I look at vanilla porn (mostly in GIF form because I only need like a minute), I read this forum and barely post (though I've been more active lately), I post/view hiking/dog/cat pictures on Instagram/imgur. I use Gmail for business. I buy camping stuff on Amazon. I guess that's it. No facebook/twitter/etc, but not because of privacy concerns, I just find those things boring and a waste of time (plus I get angry at all the idiotic shit people post/share all the time).
I guess I'm concerned with privacy regarding financial stuff. I wouldn't want my bank info out there, but then again my bank probably "owns" that stuff so not much I can do unless I decide to get a cheque and cash out every month.
Well, it is a Zoggy thread.....
Also, I have no issues with people wanting more control over their data.
That said, how many of those people are willing to pay more for email, web searches, websites, map software, social media accounts, and what not?
The value of your data has allowed for very expensive software and apps to be given to consumers for free...
OP
OP
How are you going to organize and build up up that mass protest
Please tell me the logistics of it all
Yup. Even then i was surprised i got a notification telling me my hotel reservation was coming up in a few days when i had booked it all through email correspondence, not through a booking site.
So google had read my private email and decided to remind me of that information without me asking it to.
So google had read my private email and decided to remind me of that information without me asking it to.
OP
OP
It's not like we'll ever have a presidential election compromised by social media propaganda or something
Is privacy still a right if you knowingly give it away? Like with Instagram and Facebook people volunteer a lot of info about themselves and indirectly about others. Isn't it a bit of a dig a hole situation. People are literally telling on themselves.
Tech companies having data about you? I would be surprised at people on this forum not knowing that, yes.
I know nothing about this poster so I'm sure it's a trap, but a cultural shift in the way we use services needs to change. We used to pay for software and no one batted an eye over it. You say "expensive software" but I'm willing to bet the vast majority of "free" software that is of extreme value could not be repackaged into affordable options.
I mean, any news story that helps to shed light on the way progmattic advertising works goes a long way. No one in here is saying we need to immediately take to the streets with rifles knocking on data center doors. Education on places like here or anywhere else which then allows others to educate.
It's far better than your attitude of "FUCK IT GET OVER IT"
Known issue. OP you can always not use social media services, run traffic through a VPN, and use duckduckgo for search.
A solution (for those who may be conscientious about this concern, like myself) is to check every site you use and investigate their ToS and Privacy pages (e.g. email services, shopping sites, forums, etc.) and navigate to the "opt-out personalized ads" screens. They often provide links to purveyors to investigate popular target marketing organizations like NAI which [live] track your browsing history and virtually follow you while you net on the world wide web. Also included are (separate) opt-out requests for this and potentially 100+ more third party companies (to which zoggy alludes) responsible for other, but similar aspects of online ad targeting, marketing, and data collection schema.
I implore you to check the following links if you so dare:
Oath, a Verizon Company, on their "tracking rationis" for Yahoo & AOL accounts:
https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/controls/index.html
NAI & the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) with information on cookie data collection for all common U.S. browsers, as well as options to opt-out of data collection:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/what-are-my-options
I implore you to check the following links if you so dare:
Oath, a Verizon Company, on their "tracking rationis" for Yahoo & AOL accounts:
https://policies.oath.com/us/en/oath/privacy/controls/index.html
NAI & the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) with information on cookie data collection for all common U.S. browsers, as well as options to opt-out of data collection:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/what-are-my-options
That kind of thing has happened for literal centuries. Fake astroturfing ads have existed in print, radio, and tv for many many years. Groups would send out leaflets spreading lies and sowing dissent. At some point you really should put down the beer and read a history book Zog.
From my understanding they never did that. Unless your info came up in the algorithms used to search for threats and potential links to threats. There has not been enough hours since the NSA program has started for the agency to physically go over every phone call and shit.
I always assumed Americans lack experience with nice institutions like the Gestapo or the Stasi and therfore can be stupid about this.
But after countless treads about China and Russia gate, you guys are running out of excuses, from my pov at least
But after countless treads about China and Russia gate, you guys are running out of excuses, from my pov at least