https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onw ... CruQ&hl=en


I decided to opt out!

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Even if you opt out, they've got record of *everything* you've done on the internet prior to the change, everything.

You'll have to format your hard drive and avoid all google related sites if you don't want them looking at your info -- even after you opt out!

It will be tough to avoid the prying, over-bearing eyes of google.

Me? I don't care. I'm not doing anything "wrong". I'm just a law abiding citizen. If my life is that interesting to them...fine, track me.

However, if I can find a way to maintain my privacy, I'll utilize it. But, opting out won't work -- again, you're still tracked whenever you so much as touch a google related site.

oh, IP address hiders don't work. ...the technology is outdated and easily defeated by any sophisticated software engineer who wants to track you.

A good strategy is to not opt out and make a list of all the companies they use your cookies to taylor ads to you --- and boycott those companies, write them a letter demanding they shed google's prying eyes or you will not purchase from them -- your most effective vote is your dollar vote! Don't give google any more money they can use to track you!!!

They had me as a male 27-35, maybe I should have left it as is...lol.

I changed my browser settings (Firefox) to not accept 3rd party cookies too.

Maybe it will reduce the spam factor?

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

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Cookies are a thing of the past...there are other software methods that are being used to track you. With today's technology, the more you try to hide, the bigger of a target you become!

Your only hope is your dollar vote -- track them, don't spend money on them or you'll be giving them the money they need to track you!

Google got me as a 77 year old prince from Uganda. Hmmmm.......


By bluesguitar65 at 2012-01-11

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http://www.youtube.com/user/gmlasam

...would you be shocked to know that google knows that is one of your aliases online??? Everything you do has a pattern to it. Everything gets linked backed to you when they massage the data for specifics. And, if you think you are are tricky enough to cloak yourself, ...your cloak is a red flag to the tracking software to track you deeply!

boo!

Odd how things have turned out, isn't it?

Some of us are old enough to have read George Orwell's 1984 long before the date in its title. It imagined a world of intense surveillance and invasion of personal privacy by a totalitarian state.

Yet today big business has found ways to watch us that are far more insidious than anything the KGB, the Stasi or any authoritarian regime ever dreamed up. And with a gorgeous lack of irony that Google page invites us to help them track us even more efficiently, as if that prospect should fill us with delight.

Cheers - C

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I guess I'm not all that worried about Google - they've got me big time by now - I've been online since you could be, but...

At work They are installing new wireless surveillance cameras all over the building. There's one in each staircase, two at the front entrance (one on the door and the other on the lobby where all the oldsters sit for coffee), one in receiving, one covering the pool (for liability issues, They say) and one that just happens to cover the Continental Breakfast area, where people are rumored to be filling entire coffee pots, milk jugs, etc.

All of the cameras are wireless, with high powered routers nearby, and all send their signals to a big new server that sits up in the front office. My boss across the street can now sit at her desk and go through all of the cameras to see who's where and doing what. My immediate supervisor has laughed at how she will be able to use her iPhone to keep track of everything that's going on in the building, whether she's there or not.

They say the cameras are for security... but the only place anyone has broken into the building is the front door - it's glass. Every door is locked 24-7 and requires a special fob to enter - and fob info is also sent to a computer up front to track who's fob is coming in and when.

I suspect that all of these new cameras are going to be used primarily to track the comings and goings and work habits of staff, of which I am one. And I just read an article that said unless these cameras are specifically encrypted, they can actually be viewed very easily by anyone who wants to hack into them.

Let the games begin!

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Rockin' since 1963

That show, 'Person of Interest' comes to mind!

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They are dead on for me.

Maybe they had some help...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echelon_%2 ... ligence%29

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It may as well be a random person, it's only vaguely like me. main info is wrong.
Learn how to set your browser and security programs, if you don't like being tracked.

if you use facebook you have cookies tracking everything you use.

like Ceri said, internet tracking is nearly as invasive, and in some respects even moreso, as Big brother (outside of the in home monitoring screens--which are in fact possible,) but people gleefully opt in. anyone with some basic info on you can track your whereabouts with your smart phone.

people don't seem to value privacy anymore.

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I'm not an expert, but I play one on the internet.

We are in an ongoing parasite epidemic! Adware, spyware, hijackers, badvertising, automatic dialers, betrayware, social network exploitation, and a variety of other web-delivered invasions and exploits — they represent today a much larger security threat than viruses, and cause a lot more general computer problems, IMO.

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If you don't want google collecting info about you,
you can search via :

https://duckduckgo.com/

Read the info on the Duckduckgo site to get an idea of
how your search profile could come back to bite you.

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And then there is Facebook!!

Everyone needs to be aware that those guys are selling you, and at an even more personal level.

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