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Ahhh ... yes. Like privacy? Delete Google from your life and thank you again Apple
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Funny-Forbes won’t let me read the article because I have “do not track“ enabled! Pretty ironic…
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Pretty rare for me to use Google … only because the others are not quite as bad …
(same with Amazon … both too big for their britches) …
(same with Amazon … both too big for their britches) …
Privacy is only an illusion
Nick1994
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I have an iPhone, not concerned.
Funny-Forbes won’t let me read the article because I have “do not track“ enabled! Pretty ironic…
I can't even use the Office 365 admin tools with 3rd party cookies turned off.
Here's a couple tips to folks who think they know a thing or two and have been surfing the web since ~1992 or so.
Get EFF Privacy Badger. It's free, but donate.
Go ahead and pay the man at HitmanPro. It really is one of the best at seeking and destroying malware. And trust me, this garbage comes from everyday sites, websites which everyone considers innocent. The free version works but the paid version is worth it and they deserve it.
No, nothing is perfectly private, but a few little things can keep the tracking bugs at bay. I was not paid for this rave.
Get EFF Privacy Badger. It's free, but donate.
Go ahead and pay the man at HitmanPro. It really is one of the best at seeking and destroying malware. And trust me, this garbage comes from everyday sites, websites which everyone considers innocent. The free version works but the paid version is worth it and they deserve it.
No, nothing is perfectly private, but a few little things can keep the tracking bugs at bay. I was not paid for this rave.
You can manually add the associated Microsoft domains and leave 3rd party tracking turned off. In Chromium based Edge there's an icon for "site not working?" you can click and it will load all the cookies automatically.
Otherwise, nothing to see here in general about the topic. We all knew Google was doing this already, this shouldn't be news to anyone. I have an Android phone and multiple Google smart devices in my home. I would have to give up the integration amongst my devices to trim down on the amount of data I am giving Google. I am not going to do it, and that's my choice, you're free to make whatever choice you feel like making. Google is probably the least likely company in the world to suffer a data breach, which is my chief concern when it comes to privacy, not "OMG XYZ company collects XYZ data from my phone, oh the horrors!".
I'll never use Apple's mail app either, I have a work iPhone and I don't use it for my work email or my personal email. It's quite frankly the worst email app UI that exists, I don't care how good the privacy is.
Yeah, I'm not going to ever download an app from some pencilneck whiners like EFF. I'm glad they exist to bring light to things, but their esoteric privacy arguments are tiring.
You want to help yourself, get a password vault like Bitwarden which offers free syncing across devices, and make all your passwords unique and 128 characters, or as long as site policy will allow. And then turn on 2FA for everything.
And sign up for an account on https://haveibeenpwned.com/ so you can know if your information has been involved with a breach.
Your average layman who whines so much about privacy, probably has a significant blindspot in their security posture that they are not acknowledging. Google's handling of data is far from your worst security risk.
$0.02...no really my $20.00.
I disagree.
In a country where less then 15% of the population takes advantage of free credit locks on their credit reports to prevent fraud I can tell you already that there is plenty to see here by the general population.
It just amazes me, (not you) that so many people are fed up with advertising, phone calls, CONCERNS about fraud against them, they are clueless that they have the power to eliminate 90% or more of the threat.
Instead of learning how to prevent it, for free no less they close their eyes to reality. Its human nature until it happens to them.
Its why people do not protect themselves or their homes or their finances. They think if something happens they will call the police or some agency to help but the police and/or agency only gets there after the crime.
All they see is free vs paid by companies such as google, instead of pay by companies such as proton. (loose example) For goodness sake, your personal information is sold EXACTLY like mortgage securities on the world market. Used for targeted advertising and who knows what else.
Google knows everything about you and if people are ok with that, its fine, such as in your case. But when people understand the extent of the invasion into their personal lives and personal thoughts, including physiological profiles of your brain and trigger points.
All I can say is OMG that it doesnt bother some people until they learn things like, with all the profiling of even how your though process works, you end up purchasing products that you would not have normally bought but you did and you arent sure why. Its that extensive and we are only still at the beginning.
You can be "trained" to like certain colors or to not like certain people, the list is endless but people keep giving away their minds to these mega corporations, all in the name of free stuff. The power to tilt peoples thoughts and ideas AKA facebook is much like a North Korean playbook. I say the power to do it not that Facebook is but think about it, the people censoring are censoring based on their beliefs. So isnt that the same?
I see it everyday, consumers seeking help after being hacked or falling for a scam AND even selling their house and finding out they no longer owned it because an entity took possession of the title to the home 9 months earlier. Only finding out after the closing, they do/did have title insurance but its a mess with people involved blaming each other, meaning title companies, attorneys ect. In the meantime they are being held responsible by the other party for returning three quarters of a million dollars that the other party paid for the house that the sellers unknowingly didnt own.
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You're making a pretty large leap from getting annoying spam calls to getting scammed out of your own house, dude.
You see it every day? Really?
You see it every day? Really?
I was kinda thinking the same thing on a couple posts here. Passwords and password protection, yes much more important than browsing klingons. Yes. Ditto spam v. holy **** yeah you can have my vitals. Want that in 20's or 100's?
You need to be concerned. Big brother is watching you.
https://apnews.com/article/technolo...se-apple-inc-7fe2a09427d663cda8addfeeffc40196
Come on man. What have you got to hide?
Yeah, Apple users and their smug happy world. Hmmmm.....
Oh and yes, there is nothing worse than child molesters, lower than thieves if that is possible.
Nick1994
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Oh no, I'm shaking in my boots
The problem here is that Apple is going to look through all of the pictures on your iPhone, and I assume pictures on their cloud servers tied to customer accounts. I'm not defending child molestors, I think they are scumbags, but the thought of a big corporation violating one's privacy to this extent should have most rational people more than a little concerned. I'm pretty sure that there are quite a few people (maybe the majority of people) that have pictures they would rather nobody else saw. This is exactly the same problem that Android users are facing with Google.Oh no, I'm shaking in my boots
Nick1994
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Did you read the article though? Nobody is looking at pictures unless their software detects it as inappropriate child content. I've got 3,500 pictures on my phone, and I'm one of millions with a phone. No company has the time or capacity to attempt that even on a .01% scale.
Nobody is looking at my pictures.
And Google isn't reading anyone's emails. All of this talk is foolish.
