Rubin Farr Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 So, March 1 the new google will appear, linking every user ID you've used on one of their sites together, creating a profile of you (apart from your google profile) that will be marketed to and spammed to until you finally get sick of it and leave. This is right after they're caught placing tracking cookies on ios devices that are signed in google, and every functioning Android phone on the market. Thoughts? http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/preview/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 don't leave yourself signed in to their services, and use Ghostery to help block tracking cookies, google analytics and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oscillik Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 So, March 1 the new google will appear, linking every user ID you've used on one of their sites together, creating a profile of you (apart from your google profile) that will be marketed to and spammed to until you finally get sick of it and leave. This is right after they're caught placing tracking cookies on ios devices that are signed in google, and every functioning Android phone on the market. Thoughts? http://www.google.com/policies/terms/ http://www.google.co...rivacy/preview/ stop using the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 the thought that first springs to mind, is that this kind of stuff happens so incrementally that people don't notice in real-time how it will effect the way they behave. The chilling effect will just become more pervasive, people will have to be anonymous to feel 'private'. We're hitting a pretty shitty era in human privacy john turley sums up how privacy is dying and what that means for society perfectly in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slOmhjiRNFE a mindset that makes no sense to me is an all or nothing type of viewpoint, where if you complain about increasing erosions of privacy to certain people they will have an extremely fatalistic apathy about it. It's too bad because without the general public complaining about it, its just going to get worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Yeah, it sucks monkey balls. But I don't know if I care anymore, because the world is shit anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Enter a new display name Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 inb4 ET Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 don't leave yourself signed in to their services, and use Ghostery to help block tracking cookies, google analytics and so on. Never heard of Ghostery. I'll give it a try because I'm getting increasingly paranoid about the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I just found out about it last week myself. It's a nice addition to AdBlockPlus. Awepittance - there's a huge difference between google abusing its power and the government abusing its power though. and for anyone who wants to stop using google as a search engine - duckduckgo is what you need :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 I just found out about it last week myself. It's a nice addition to AdBlockPlus. and for anyone who wants to stop using google as a search engine - duckduckgo is what you need :) Ha, on watmm it blocks Google and some other thing, awesome. I have duckduckgo as an alternate search engine, but it kind of sucks. I've heard good things about blekko, but it looks moderately complicated. http://blekko.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Awepittance - there's a huge difference between google abusing its power and the government abusing its power though. To me it doesn't matter who is pushing the erosion of privacy, it's happening through the use of surveillance technologies utilized by private industry and government. The 2 happening at once is what concerns me, not one or the other. the net effect, a chilling effect on the way humans behave will happen regardless if it is a corporation or a government inducing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 the concept that Google already 'scans' your emails using an algorithm to determine your likes and interests is already very strange to me. How is it ok if a robot/algorithm violates your privacy? there seems to have been no public debate of any kind about that, it's just totally accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
impakt Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Can't believe I didn't actually read through the new TOS before now. WOW, that shit is retarded... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 is a google search private? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eugene Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 inb4 ET they've got him already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Ive had ghostry for a while. A bit pointless seeing as I use chrome. Listen, if someone has to have my info Id prefer it to be google. And I dont really care anymore anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awepittance Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 just curious, why dont you guys care anymore? Do you just think its an uphill battle that can never be won? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chassis Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Pretty much. Also, Im not that interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoA Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 just curious, why dont you guys care anymore? Do you just think its an uphill battle that can never be won? Oh, the apathy. :/ is a google search private? No. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/faq/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meadows and Labyrinths Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 just don't put yer secrets on the internet. use internet, be happy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneToThirtySix Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 So, the internet is becoming an infinite billboard based on personal usage? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanakori Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 don't leave yourself signed in to their services, and use Ghostery to help block tracking cookies, google analytics and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoodie Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 hey guys. i was wondering if you could help me out with this. is there a way to download all the emails i've ever received on gmail as text files or something? i tried to do this over the summer with mozilla's email client but it only downloaded in increments of 1000 emails at a time and i have a shit ton more than that. if anyone could provide me with instructions and a reliable program, i'd be soooo incredibly grateful. google has terrible customer service and i'm really worried about losing my account randomly because i did not provide my real name or some bullshit excuse like that. i don't want 20000 emails to disappear because of that. thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goDel Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 By this time googol has so much information, the amount itself actually makes your information safer. The odds of someone actually looking at your private info is close to zero. And these analytical algorithms, I don't see much trouble in those. As long as you can opt out, you're fine, I guess. But you can opt out, can't you? But admittedly, my actual online footprint is negligible. So no worries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanakori Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 By this time googol has so much information, the amount itself actually makes your information safer. The odds of someone actually looking at your private info is close to zero. And these analytical algorithms, I don't see much trouble in those. As long as you can opt out, you're fine, I guess. But you can opt out, can't you? But admittedly, my actual online footprint is negligible. So no worries. BS, thats the resignation we're talking about... The odds of someone actually looking at my private info are completely random, if they have it, they can look at it, and also give it up to other entities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundwave Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 2012! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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