Google Spying on your viewing

of course, you do understand that ALL internet transactions are recorded? EVERYTHING!! no exceptions.

And also, although not off topic, we ARE off website...
 
once you get a loan, a credit card, a mortgage, and so on, you can say goodbye to your "privacy" in this country now a days..
so, unless you are moving to the mountains, living in cave, and living off the land, get used to it..
 
Don't try and get people to accept this! It is an atrocious invasion of privacy.

And for those who don't understand what that means, don't you know at least how valuable that data is? Why should they have it for free?

However I suspect these concepts are too abstract for many...
And so we get this.

I have always used Clusty for searches. Respects your privacy, finds everything that-search-engine-everyone-uses does, and puts it in a better format. It's a 'meta' search engine.

I've been moving away from Google as my search engine of choice; too many false top hits that were paid for by Google's customers. Plus they are getting too big; sort of the MicroSoft of the internet. I also won't ever load a Google toolbar on my one Windows PC. Resistance isn't futile.
 
Sure. There is a big difference between whether or not a company is keeping track of viewing habits vs whether or not they are listening to phonesex.

And some day when the local cops or FBI knock on your door because there has been a sex crime in the neighborhood and they know that you watch the porn on Cinemax each night and are therefore a suspect; then you will wonder why something wasn't done about this invasion of privacy.

For years we were told that the only thing being tracked was total channel usage. Now they know what each one of us, by subscriber name, was watching at what time and day. "1984" is closer than you think.
 
can somebody please give a little bit more details of how viewing habits are monitored. I am totally clueless about it and would be interested to learn.
 
Carl B, you are paranoid. Why worry about this? It's harmless. It's for the public good.

And BTW, you should really sit up straighter while you're typing. And you could learn to type a little faster. Some of your socks need to be replaced. And the Dry Cleaners are curious about those stains.....
;)
 
can somebody please give a little bit more details of how viewing habits are monitored. I am totally clueless about it and would be interested to learn.

Basically, everything you do is monitored and uplinked to a central monitoring computer located at Battery Tunnel in NYC. There are two giant squid aliens there monitoring everything we do. Useful information is then fed to an aging white postal worker or a black former NYC cop.

Other theories speculate that the Crab People are in charge and working on turning us all into metrosexuals in anticipation of a future takeover of the human race.
 
can somebody please give a little bit more details of how viewing habits are monitored. I am totally clueless about it and would be interested to learn.


It's called Target Marketing.... they don't collect data on specific users, but they collect a database of how many people watched what program at what time so they can sell advertising time to companies and make their advertising time slots more valuable to potential clients by being able to show that "Dish Network has this many viewers watching this channel during this time slot"....
 
Carl B, you are paranoid. Why worry about this? It's harmless. It's for the public good.
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War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
 
In retrospect, I guess I should have gone easier on the Apologists.

When the world is so frightening that they must retreat into complete and abject denial/acceptance, as a survival mechanism, we have to be a little more understanding of them.
 
And some day when the local cops or FBI knock on your door because there has been a sex crime in the neighborhood and they know that you watch the porn on Cinemax each night and are therefore a suspect; then you will wonder why something wasn't done about this invasion of privacy.

Well I dont have to worry about that since I get my porn from the internet. Uh oh. Internet tracking is worse. I better delete it all and zero-out my hard drive. :eek:
 
Ya, Fahrenheit 451 is another classic.

Do not accept surveillance. Counter it wherever possible. The day will come when you regret your passive acceptance of corporate encroachment.

I use Squid as a web object cacher, and it anonymizes every header I send, it responds with junk info to probes, and it represents me as a Google spider-bot everywhere I go. (including here) Of course you must be highly technical to set it up though (and it may only run on Linux AFAIK).

Of course my IP can ultimately be connected with my address, but at this time it requires probable cause of a crime. May not be so much longer tho, if we continue like we are.
 
Hmmm. I wonder what the monitoring system will make of me after it sees I purchased the "Fresh Young Asses 3" pay-per-view immediately after watching "The 700 Club"?
 
I need a job. Where can I go to get hired to watch all this stuff. I can not fly black helicopters but I do know morse code.
 

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