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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: godly_music on Sat, 03 March 2012, 16:04:50
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The world's pretty much doomed.
I don't wanna connect my Facebook to my Twitter to my Youtube to my G-Mail to my shameful Googling for Brazilian Fart Porn. This is just the kind of ****-up compulsory integration that's so describing the 21st century. But my example isn't really accurate. Youtube has been offering these integratory buttons for Twitter and Facebook and whatever for a while now.
There's just no upside for the user. That they actually have the cheek to call it an advantage that you now only have to read one agreement instead of multiple is pretty telling, because that is the only thing you could pull out of your hat to make this sinister move sound respectable in any way. Interconnection of all data mining services. They'll know who YOU are exactly.
I jumped ship, but not to have a Youtube account anymore.. that hurts. You can still try to keep your subscriptions by RSS, but it's not the same. And if you block cookies for Google and Youtube, you'll get these annoying text boxes telling you about language preferences every single time. But it's better than the alternative.
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My favorite part about the internet has always been the anonymity and privacy. You just have to pay more attention to what the big "players" are doing these days if you still value those aspects.
I am happy that I never joined any social network sites, still pay for my real email (runbox), use an alias for youtube....etc
I just don't feel like self promoting or making myself available for others. The funny thing is, now employers are suspicious if you don't have an online presence...
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I don't "log in" to search engines and don't use Facebook, G-mail, Twitter and many others. I'm not bothered too much about it...yet.
It seems the Windows 8 BETA is all about connecting all those together more than anything. I'll skip that OS for sure (on my PC).
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This all makes me sick. :-(
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I haven't quite been able to grasp why I should quit Google products. I just am very careful with my privacy. I can also remove/block all information that I see fit.
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You get what you pay for with free email services. It's been a good ride until now.
In a nutshell:
-Don't use free email services?
-Don't log in to search engines?
-Don't use, or at least don't link social media sites?
I assume there is still a way to have a truely anonymous free email, but I haven't checked in 10 years.
I'm thinking there is a safety/security/PRIVACY software package that can be available to prevent some of these issues?
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Hahahahaha!
You THINK that Google Settings work?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/not-just-google-facebook-also-bypasses-privacy-settings-in-ie/9302
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/facebook-to-microsoft-p3p-is-outdated-what-else-ya-got/9332?tag=content;siu-container
Whoever's using IE is asking for trouble anyway.