It all depends on how much privacy is important to you:
I got bored with phones and social media a while back. I have only essential apps installed and will never approve of virtual assistants in any form...not in their current state.
Though it is impossible to completely disable them or uninstall from their respective platform
With Steam however, I am fully integrated :-D
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am i the only one who experienced the following?:
-i was talking about an item irl with someone in my house
-never googled or looked after that item, seriously, never
-later on that day google ad on a site showed that item which was never looked by me and totally different than my usual searches
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am i the only one
you're not!
but, also, you shouldn't put some tape on your microphone, imo.
obviously no offence here... but take into consideration that Google (or Amazon, or...) has a bigger brain than yours (not talking only about "memory", but also what/how much a machine can learn...)
:D
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Maybe if you got Siri or somethjing like that, i think anything can always be listiening.
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That would creep the shit out of me, seriously.
Depending on how common the item is, it may be pure coincidence, or like Lugum pointed out a language assistance system such as Siri, Cortana or Alexa, which is secretely recording and analyzing your conversations.
Without any precautions from your side I fear their advanced profiling techniques are able to capture your user-behavior pretty accurately and thus know more about you than yourself. Dang! :o
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And now people are downright inviting Amazon and Google into their homes just to have gizmos with microphones lying around so that they can ask questions out loud (or order a certain brand) without having to use their fingers and a keyboard...
That's really asking for it. Honestly with the amount of sheep joyfully going to the slaughterhouse, couldn't they leave the rest of us alone?
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If you were talking about enlarging your penis I'm afraid to tell you it's a pretty common spam ad XD
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no point, girls dont care about size, they care only about wallet.
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Yep, I've seen this with iPhones time and time again. Just having that stupid thing nearby and you start talking about anything, a few hours later there will be an ad for it. Its crazy. I think we realized that when we were talking about something so off the wall random it was like there is NO WAY that that would have come up unless something was eavesdropping on us. I'm pretty sure it was related to a doctor's office visit TBH.
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The way threads or discussions like these are always met with downright hostility by some, never fails to amuse me.
"Don't burst my bubble! I'm unimportant to brands so I'm safe!" :P
As if discussing privacy issues in the first place was more of an offense than brands and corporations who invade it routinely.
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It's mostly like "I have nothing to hide but don't go around splurging information so spare me your clickbait" to me : P
Besides tomorrow I have to be super lovable so better vent off all my hostility now, no? ; )
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Blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Hmm, let me think:
Amazon: Don't really use it, but if you add amazon servers, than yup, that would be interesting, but probably not much.
Facebook: Don't have a Facebook account, so no biggie.
Google: Search engine can be averted but still a big loss, no Gmail account for heavy use. So the most problem would be YouTube.
Microsoft: No Microsoft live service and console stuff, no biggie, no console here and don't have live service account (AFAIK), if you add no Windows and other offline software, than it would be impossible in most case.
Apple: Zero Iproduct usage so once again, no biggie.
Basically Windows and YouTube is the only that would be massive loss from this five.
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Kinda like me, except I also use Edge and don't even use Youtube.
Besides we aren't talking about unhealty habits like smoke or something so it's really no biggie ; )
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It's actually pretty easy to explain.
I left Chrome to my brother so we can both have our sites and cookies separated (in different jars) XD
I like to compartmentalize ; )
Maybe that's why I find this topic stupid, I don't mix life and web, what happens on the web stays on the web.
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How can you call yourself "free" when you purposefully limit yourself?
Think about it.
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None of us is truly free. We are all of us bound by limitations, some placed by others, some placed by ourselves. The only things over which we have absolute control are our intentions and our attempts to take action. Everything else is out of our hands.
Think about it.
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None the less "I feel free because I limit myself" is still a contradiction.
Think about it.
If then we have to ramble along on the fact that true freedom will only be achieved by surpassing bodily limits like food and air I won't stop you ; )
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None the less "I feel free because I limit myself" is still a contradiction.
That is a falsehood, not a contradiction. A "feeling" is subjective and not necessarily based in reality. "Feeling free" is also based on your mind's interpretation of "freedom," and is therefore independent of whatever self-control you impose. In fact, you can exercise self-control and feel "free" at the same time, so a better statement would have been "I limit myself and still feel free."
Of course, just because something is a demonstrable falsehood doesn't preclude someone believing in it. Think about it.
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This is wrong by itself because the titles of the articles stated clearly that the person going through the process was using the services and was also missing them.
Therefore was limiting his freedom to "free" himself from the "giants" which merely means changing cages.
If it had simply stated that he stopped to use X freely without the exact intent of boycotting and without suppressing the desire (and without much fanfare) it would have been has you say it, but it's not.
Think a boat hit ; )
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Your OP looks like an advertisement for Kashmir Hills' Gizmodo videos, something we do not allow on SG. You need to fix it. I suggest editing your OP so as to make it a discussion instead of a redirect to another site (Gizmodo). You can name Hill and describe her videos for those who wish to view them, all without including links.
Please take care of this as soon as you can.
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Your OP looks like an advertisement for Kashmir Hills' Gizmodo videos
Really? Because it looks to me like any other thread on any random forum. OP posts a recent article of interest, sparks discussion, and includes relevant links. Nothing linked requires a subscription or any other form of payment. Not sure how this is any more advertisement than someone posting a Kotaku article.
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it's ok to leave just the main link to the article? (i'll fix it further, in case, in a few minutes...)
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I think we can call that "close enough." One link to one article (as opposed to multiple links for a single author/channel/etc.) could be considered a (minimalistic) reference. It would have been better had you fully discussed the matter in your OP, as that would also have indicated the link to be a reference. However, with nothing more than just the links, and all of them for one site/author, it looked like an ad or redirect.
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close enough
:D
i really didn't think about that, but as soon as i've seen your comment i've -to my huge surprise- quickly understood.
Mod spotted just another lazy poster...
i'll try to make it better, elaborating more, next time.
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Huh? Since when it is forbidden to link to actual journalism? I am completely baffled by your post.
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There is a difference between posting an exposition with an accompanying citation/reference link and posting multiple, bare links to a particular site or channel (i.e. a redirect).
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I don't understand why a majority of the posters in this thread feel the need to "prove" they don't utilize these companies.
It's like some weird group-think thing and it makes me feel odd.
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I'm cutting the internet soon , just sick of it all...
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I know i need it to live...and i play online games all the time so id be screwed without it.
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i wouldn't do that, if i were you. (did that, in the past)
i mean, is like when you hear that quite old man that keeps searching for a new home, again and again. "this place looked good, but not my place anymore... let's search for a better, new one".
my tip is, like: keep googling yourself. the Internet, meanwhile, might help you, even inspire you.
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Ya i'm just fkin tired of this world of BS and i do need to look for a new apartment and i need a drummer and bass player to start up my band and i need my FB accounts they are very valuable i have tons of contacts in the music bizz and i am friends with hundreds of celebs and ppl who work in the bizz in all lines of work you can imagine and all the kids checking me out and look up to me and all the metal fans waiting for my music i cant let them down...\m/ I just launched my band page on FB a week ago already got 530 likes and 527 follows and 2 interview requests, one for radio and the other is a famous metal blogger who interviewed thousands of bands...
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People tend to be happier without social media in general. I read somewhere that social media basically amounts to only seeing the highlights of someone's life, i.e the best parts. It's easy to compare your own life to the best parts of other peoples lives when your not seeing the whole picture from them. It's to easy to develop a negative mindset when you constantly are comparing different stages of life. It's just unnecessary. This is also coming from the same person who refused to have a phone until his early-20's because I liked staying off the radar, so take my words with a grain of salt.
Just a little random input in regards to social media that noone asked for D:
:D
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with a grain of salt
that's a pretty big grain, Fyanta... very salty cause what you've said is new, here.
+that phone-diet is very-Fyantastic, like, very much you, imo.
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"I Cut the 'Big Five' Tech Giants From My Life. It Was Hell"
by Kashmir Hill, Gizmodo
never felt that free, on the Internet... tho, this still terrifies me. kinda.
have a great week, peeps!
imma the usual lazy op that pretends to calls "minimalistic" what is just plain, crystal clear, deep and huge laziness. and so, was reading first comments down here, and this is the first effect. i mite add something more.
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