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Vlonald Prump: Aug 28, 2011; Here in America, you grab them by pussy. In old country, pussy grab you!!; Buglord

A friend of mine was talking to me about going to Mexico as part of a group trip and I told him I needed to get my passport renewed. I whipped out my phone to look up where I would have to go to get it renewed and typed "where to get" and it autocompleted to "...passport renewed"

I hate this. This is creepy. Is there any way I can disable this little eavesdropper in my pocket without having to change all the app setting manually?

It's only a matter of time before they make smartphones into narcs in our pockets right after they got us completely dependent on them. I bet everything goes into a database somewhere

poo poo, other people have smartphones too. Can Google get a computer to recognize specific peoples' voices yet?

gently caress

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Kirk Vikernes: Apr 26, 2004; Count Goatnackh

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# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:19

Kuato: Feb 25, 2005; "I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"; Buglord

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# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:21

KakerMix: Apr 8, 2004; 8.2 M.P.G.

Vlonald Prump posted:

A friend of mine was talking to me about going to Mexico as part of a group trip and I told him I needed to get my passport renewed. I whipped out my phone to look up where I would have to go to get it renewed and typed "where to get" and it autocompleted to "...passport renewed"

I hate this. This is creepy. Is there any way I can disable this little eavesdropper in my pocket without having to change all the app setting manually?

It's only a matter of time before they make smartphones into narcs in our pockets right after they got us completely dependent on them. I bet everything goes into a database somewhere

poo poo, other people have smartphones too. Can Google get a computer to recognize specific peoples' voices yet?

gently caress

lol you just now realizing this? Like yeah it sucks but whatever man it's how the world works now and this spyware brick in my pocket is far too valuable to me now to give it up. A big reason why I'll use incognito mode isn't to try to throw Google off my scent, it's to get it to stop recommending me things I looked up once because I try to keep my 'profile' light for Google. The downside is any time they do get something new to target me with they go overboard and assume that is all I'm interested in. Like poo poo Google sometimes I just like to look up 'lima beans' on Wikipedia and see what's up, you know?

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:21

EorayMel: May 30, 2015; WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Fran�ais.

One time an old friend of mine got a rogue antivirus that marked MS paint as a virus.

We both had a hearty laugh over it.

Also different friend, got a virus that kept sending him gay porn popups. He said he has never deleted it since he acquired it :stonklol:

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:22

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

KakerMix posted:

lol you just now realizing this? Like yeah it sucks but whatever man it's how the world works now and this spyware brick in my pocket is far too valuable to me now to give it up. A big reason why I'll use incognito mode isn't to try to throw Google off my scent, it's to get it to stop recommending me things I looked up once because I try to keep my 'profile' light for Google. The downside is any time they do get something new to target me with they go overboard and assume that is all I'm interested in. Like poo poo Google sometimes I just like to look up 'lima beans' on Wikipedia and see what's up, you know?

you can actually go into your ad settings and tell them not to target you
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
it doesn't work, but you can do it

I turned off everything except "horses" to see what would happen
got exactly one ad about horses, a cry from a desperate horse racing fan for ideas on how to "grow our sport"

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:28

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Cubone posted:

I turned off everything except "horses" to see what would happen
got exactly one ad about horses, a cry from a desperate horse racing fan for ideas on how to "grow our sport"

jockeys maintain a competitive advantage by being small you can't grow them, god

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:29

Police Automaton: Mar 17, 2009; "You are standing in a thread. Someone has made an insightful post."
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There's a bunch of privacy-respecting google alternatives that work just as well if you search for most common stuff.

Also get a paid mail account with a privacy-respecting provider. Totally worth the 12 bucks a year I pay for that, alone for the features.

Police Automaton fucked around with this message at 05:35 on Jan 18, 2018

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:33

a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

Vlonald Prump posted:

It's only a matter of time before they make smartphones into narcs in our pockets right after they got us completely dependent on them. I bet everything goes into a database somewhere

ah, a time traveler, from the past

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:33

aegof: Mar 2, 2011

Police Automaton posted:

There's a bunch of privacy-respecting google alternatives that work just as well if you search for most common stuff.

Also get a paid mail account with a privacy-respecting provider. Totally worth the 12 bucks a year I paid for that, alone for the features.

do they have plugins for chrome

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:35

Chinatown: Sep 11, 2001; by Fluffdaddy; Fun Shoe

OP your fly is down

youre welcome

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:37

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I don't use chrome. Last time I checked it did a bunch of telemetry stuff nobody knows exactly what it is and you can't turn off, lol

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:37

Sophy Wackles: Dec 17, 2000; > access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.

Last year, for a full 11 months, Google "accidentally" was tracking the location of all androids phones 24/7, even with location services OFF.

Of course when someone discovered it, Google "fixed" it and said they would never mine your personal information without consent! (lol)

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:52

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Police Automaton posted:

I don't use chrome. Last time I checked it did a bunch of telemetry stuff nobody knows exactly what it is and you can't turn off, lol

Good news, windows 10 brings this model to your operating system!

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:53

Sophy Wackles: Dec 17, 2000; > access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.

I'm the person using an OS or software made by an advertising company and expecting any kind of privacy.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:53

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Blue Train posted:

Good news, windows 10 brings this model to your operating system!

I don't use windows either :shrug:

It's a pity this sort of poo poo wasn't nipped in the bud by lawmakers when it was all newfangled and nobody normal knew what a browser even is. Now the companies are too powerful and it's way too late.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:54

a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:57

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its so creepy op.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 05:59

g0lbez: Dec 25, 2004; and then you'll beg

Aside from the bullshit of employers firing people based on social media posts has there been anything truly terrible to arise from the privacy destroying "holy piss my phone/alexa/kinect/roomba is LISTENING?!?"

A robot now knows that you said the word passport what do you honestly think will happen from here

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:00

a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

g0lbez posted:

Aside from the bullshit of employers firing people based on social media posts has there been anything truly terrible to arise from the privacy destroying "holy piss my phone/alexa/kinect/roomba is LISTENING?!?"

A robot now knows that you said the word passport what do you honestly think will happen from here

it's going to put a straightened out wire coat hanger into your pee hole

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:02

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

g0lbez posted:

Aside from the bullshit of employers firing people based on social media posts has there been anything truly terrible to arise from the privacy destroying "holy piss my phone/alexa/kinect/roomba is LISTENING?!?"

A robot now knows that you said the word passport what do you honestly think will happen from here

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/us/alexa-calls-police-trnd/index.html

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:02

a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

(in a robotic voice, while forcing 12 ga steel wire into your urethra) To us, metal is food.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:05

Llareggub: Dec 28, 2004

Vlonald Prump posted:

without having to change all the app setting manually?

You're this fuckin lazy man? Take some responsibility for your own computing. That's how we got into this mess in the first place.

Sit down with your phone and open up Google Settings. Roam through the menus and explore all your options. Look at Google Ad Settings too. You will see what you can enable and disable and you will find out that Google's also keeping a location history of everywhere you've been and that you've agreed to this, since you've been too lazy to disable it. This is on you, man.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:06

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

a hole-y ghost posted:

(in a robotic voice, while forcing 12 ga steel wire into your urethra) To us, metal is food.

The intake valves are so inefficiently designed on these meatbags

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:07

myDad: Jan 20, 2010; ce n'est pas ma m�re; College Slice

Blue Train posted:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/10/us/alexa-calls-police-trnd/index.html

lol

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:07

LethalGeek: Nov 4, 2009

I know they're supposedly useless but I turn all their android listening poo poo off and dunk their scripts in my browser and I can't say that poo poo ever happens to me.

So idk stop letting a giant company farm you for info :shrug:

It's even funnier watching Facebook have no loving idea what ads to feed me until it manages to make some connection. Like it just recently started giving me ads for my mortgage company... That I've been using for 4 years.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:09

Prettz: Sep 3, 2002

they changed their motto last decade to "Do only evil."

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:09

Blue Train: Jun 17, 2012

Llareggub posted:

You're this fuckin lazy man? Take some responsibility for your own computing. That's how we got into this mess in the first place.

Sit down with your phone and open up Google Settings. Roam through the menus and explore all your options. Look at Google Ad Settings too. You will see what you can enable and disable and you will find out that Google's also keeping a location history of everywhere you've been and that you've agreed to this, since you've been too lazy to disable it. This is on you, man.

Don't worry it also says that that information is only viewable by you*†�

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:11

g0lbez: Dec 25, 2004; and then you'll beg

Prettz posted:

they changed their motto last decade to "Do only evil."

it's loving hilarious how lightning quick they got rid of the "don't be evil" thing when they realized it is impossible to do so while also being a successful megacorp

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:11

ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

Kuato posted:

It helped you out and you�re whining about it? God drat goons are a bunch of loving ingrates

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:15

just another: Oct 16, 2009; these dead towns that make the maps wrong now

g0lbez posted:

Aside from the bullshit of employers firing people based on social media posts has there been anything truly terrible to arise from the privacy destroying "holy piss my phone/alexa/kinect/roomba is LISTENING?!?"

A robot now knows that you said the word passport what do you honestly think will happen from here

i think the concern is more "this is what the tech can do. now imagine a President Trump, except smart."

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:18

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

i leave it all on and get a boner when i think about all those ppl watching me

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:18

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With time they'll get more and more effective sorting and extrapolating information from the data they've already collected for years on people. Can't wait for the day where people will go to jail for things they did on the internet years ago and people realize that post they made on facebook and deleted 10 minutes later they might have as well carved into a mountain.

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:19

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Smythe posted:

i leave it all on and get a boner when i think about all those ppl watching me

same but I point my webcam at the boner

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:20

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# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:22

g0lbez: Dec 25, 2004; and then you'll beg

just another posted:

i think the concern is more "this is what the tech can do. now imagine a President Trump, except smart."

You underestimate how people feel about their privacy. If at any point the tech is used in a publically disparaging way there will be at least two dozen laws forbidding it within a week. People don't want their porn habits put on blast

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:22

Junk: Dec 20, 2003; Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?

This one time I had some AA batteries corrode and I typed in "how to clean off" and the first autocorrect suggestion was "battery acid." Why the gently caress out of all things I could have possibly wanted to clean off, it knew I wanted battery acid?

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:23

the black husserl: Feb 25, 2005

is there a good list online of how to turn all this tracking poo poo off?

# ? Jan 18, 2018 06:24

Cubone: May 26, 2011; Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

g0lbez posted:

You underestimate how people feel about their privacy. If at any point the tech is used in a publically disparaging way there will be at least two dozen laws forbidding it within a week. People don't want their porn habits put on blast

saved once again by the ubiquity of our guilt

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I Brake For MILFs: Jan 9, 2007

MY VOICE IS MY PASSPORT, VERIFY ME.

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