A [small] advantage of the EU

[Handley_Page]

Facebook will KNOW you've been browsing for smut


Seen this folks ?

 

[Swilly]

We all take the abundance of free information and entertainment on the internet for granted. If every person out here found a way to block all advertising, the internet would become a place that would require payment for access to anything, including email.

Of course, we give something up in return. If I'm going to get ads, I'd rather have it be something that might be meaningful to me rather than being served an ad for something like female yeast infections. I'd RATHER have none of it, but that's living in a dream world. People live with the illusion that they're getting something for nothing, but companies don't exist for long that way.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

First: Who cares? I know there are some out there that will, but hey it's Facebook.

Second: The only adds I see are those for the latest piece of technology or software I searched for. Or those, "If you don't speak Spanish, you need to see this" crap. Any and all of Zuckmiesters adds have faded into the background when I'm F'book, I don't see them most of the time, unless there are a big pair of boobs pictured. Which the Spanish adds use all the time, which is why I remember seeing them.

And that's why you set up different accounts for everyone who will use your computer and don't give out your F'book password.

 

[CeasarBoobage]

As someone who goes to silly lengths to block advertising and profiling, I would like to thank those of you who embrace being tracked. You're making it easy for my access to stay free.

I have studied how this ad-tracking tech works, and frankly it scares me. So for that reason, it kind of tickles me to be able to thwart them. Kind of like "sticking it to 'The Man'".

If a site can provide a service worth paying for, especially when it stops ads, I will gladly do it. Happily letting some random faceless corporate giant have my info isn't something I think is a good idea.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

As someone who goes to silly lengths to block advertising and profiling, I would like to thank those of you who embrace being tracked. You're making it easy for my access to stay free.

I have studied how this ad-tracking tech works, and frankly it scares me. So for that reason, it kind of tickles me to be able to thwart them. Kind of like "sticking it to 'The Man'".

If a site can provide a service worth paying for, especially when it stops ads, I will gladly do it. Happily letting some random faceless corporate giant have my info isn't something I think is a good idea.

Yeah, but they are tracking Xavier Carter, not me. Oh and of course Zeb Carter isn't my real name either. And the IP Address of the modem I use to connect to the internet changes daily, of course there is a block of ip's that are connected to, but there are over twenty of them.

Then again, I don't really care about them tracking what I search for or what sites I frequent as it's not really me doing it. Even if it was, it's not like someone will come to my door and asked me to stop doing what I do. Not yet as least...although I'm sure there are those that would like to be able to do that.

So you don't do any shopping online? No Amazon? No ebay? No Tiger Direct? No Newegg? No Smashwords? No Kindle?

 

[Swilly]

There's safety in numbers. Hundreds of millions of people can't be directly....sought? The scale prohibits such a thing. There are not hundreds of thousands of people working at Google reading your individual emails.

It's an uncomfortable feeling, but if the ad market dries up, so too will most of what we take for granted on the web.

Of course, one can stay off the web entirely, opt out of cell phones, cable TV, metro cards for subways, ez pass, and deal only in cash...which is stored at home. How much convenience are we willing to give up to avoid being tracked?

 

[Zeb_Carter]

There's safety in numbers. Hundreds of millions of people can't be directly....sought? The scale prohibits such a thing. There are not hundreds of thousands of people working at Google reading your individual emails.

It's an uncomfortable feeling, but if the ad market dries up, so too will most of what we take for granted on the web.

Of course, one can stay off the web entirely, opt out of cell phones, cable TV, metro cards for subways, ez pass, and deal only in cash...which is stored at home. How much convenience are we willing to give up to avoid being tracked?

LOL...I think all those people live up in Alaska.

What they track are your habit so they can present you with ads that might appeal to your base instincts, just as the supermart places those impulse items there at the register for you to grab because you just need a Snickers bar right now.

So change up you searches, clicks on and such to give them fits. I sometimes just search for some of the stupidest things you can possibly think up. Sometimes I take those emails about getting a large member and plug them in the search bar on google.

Then I search for a hard drive or a TV set. Gives the ad software fits. Soon I start getting ads about get a larger TV set.(not really)

Personally I could give a crap about what they track. I'm old. I'm ornery. I don't care. It's not like any of it is going to ruin my reputation, as if I have one. That's why not many people online know my really name and those that do, I know theirs. Tit for Tat.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Facebook? What's a Facebook?

 

[StrangeLife]

It wont be long...

http://blog.static.abine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-09-at-5.43.47-PM.png

 

[robertreams]

We all take the abundance of free information and entertainment on the internet for granted. If every person out here found a way to block all advertising, the internet would become a place that would require payment for access to anything, including email.

Of course, we give something up in return. If I'm going to get ads, I'd rather have it be something that might be meaningful to me rather than being served an ad for something like female yeast infections. I'd RATHER have none of it, but that's living in a dream world. People live with the illusion that they're getting something for nothing, but companies don't exist for long that way.

assuming that companies are the be all and end all that drives everything. But there is more than one way to looka t the world. All excess value is created by labor. Societies, i.e. governments which truly serve their citizens, encourage labor organization and participation and often, citizens and consumers determine what happens, not companies. Implied and engineered consent does not HAVE to be a way of life and is not the way of life in more educated societies.

 

[robertreams]

Who says they get to control everything? Who gave them the airways and hyperspace for their own privte territory? Government entities are bought and sold to provide monopolies to certain groups/individuals so that they may control what we all consume. Water is next. Soon there will be no more private or public ownership of fresh water, it will all be corporate. Also wind and sun will soon also be owned by the privileged few. It has already begun. Coca Cola owns most of the fresh water in developing countries, we are next. As soon as we get used to buying our water 20 ounces at a time, oh wait, that's already happened.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It wont be long...

http://blog.static.abine.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Screen-Shot-2013-01-09-at-5.43.47-PM.png

Yeah....almost didn't get the reference...but no, pre-Crime will never happen in my lifetime.

And why does Tom Cruise look like someone punched him in the nose and it smashed like clay?

 

[NaokoSmith]

Those crude kind of searches of what you're posting often get things wrong too.

I once posted a picture of two grannies holding a placard saying: Fuck the police! because I like the idea of old ladies on protest marches.

Five minutes later an ad popped up in my sidebar saying: Single police officers available in your area.

 

[Hypoxia]

Single police officers available in your area.

Were they hot?

 

[NaokoSmith]

Were they hot?

OMG! I didn't go to the site and check them out.

The last time I chatted to a police officer, he said after a while: "You don't remember me, do you?" and when I looked closely he was my ex-student! I hadn't looked at him at all cuz I was busy looking at his butch blonde colleague . I'm afraid I got all flustered and called him 'sweetie'! which I believe is not the proper way to address the forces of law and order <snerk>.

 

[StrangeLife]

Yeah....almost didn't get the reference...but no, pre-Crime will never happen in my lifetime.

And why does Tom Cruise look like someone punched him in the nose and it smashed like clay?

Actually I was thinking of the way the billboards were talking directly to Tom with a personalized message after "recognizing" him by retinal scan...

"Mr. Anderton! You look like you could do with a cool Guinness right now."

"Hello Mr. Anderton. Have you checked out our new and fashionable fall collection..."


Google is pretty much doing it already, minus the retina-thing. But that's only a question of time. Except that they'll probably use the mandatory RFID implant instead...

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[Zeb_Carter]

Actually I was thinking of the way the billboards were talking directly to Tom with a personalized message after "recognizing" him by retinal scan...

"Mr. Anderton! You look like you could do with a cool Guinness right now."

"Hello Mr. Anderton. Have you checked out our new and fashionable fall collection..."


Google is pretty much doing it already, minus the retina-thing. But that's only a question of time. Except that they'll probably use the mandatory RFID implant instead...

Forgot about that part of the movie. Still, I won't be around to see that happening, except on the internet.

 

[Hypoxia]

Forgot about that part of the movie. Still, I won't be around to see that happening, except on the internet.

Are you that near death? Poor fella! No, I give it five years to hit RL. And in ten years, we'll be surrounded by personalized holographic advertising (in selected urban areas). Heinlein and Vinge predicted it.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Are you that near death? Poor fella! No, I give it five years to hit RL. And in ten years, we'll be surrounded by personalized holographic advertising (in selected urban areas). Heinlein and Vinge predicted it.

Five years? Even ten years is a stretch. The world of advertising does hop on certain bandwagons pretty quickly, but only if it's not going to cost them an arm and a leg. And, until everyone is "chipped", highly unlikely even in ten years, they won't even think about spending the money to put up the billboards that can read the "chip" and display targeted adds. Marketing types are cheap.

No, I'm not that near death, but neither are we that close to having targeted advertising except on the internet. And then the name of the individual on the internet would have to match that of the person on the street.

And I certainly won't be getting "chipped" anytime soon. Nor do I think most Americans will.

 

[Swilly]

And I certainly won't be getting "chipped" anytime soon. Nor do I think most Americans will.

It's likely that our children will be used as tools to chip people. Perhaps at the hospital when they're born, along with one or both parents. Perhaps when they're a bit older under the guise of being able to locate them if they are somehow abducted.

After all, it will only be for our own protection.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

It's likely that our children will be used as tools to chip people. Perhaps at the hospital when they're born, along with one or both parents. Perhaps when they're a bit older under the guise of being able to locate them if they are somehow abducted.

After all, it will only be for our own protection.

True. I have two dogs, they are chipped. Of course you have to wave the wand very close to them to trigger the chip. The wand can't read the chip from across the room, it has to be right over the chip.

I have heard of parents chipping their children to keep track of them...personally, I think it's silly for the average child, but for a child of a high profile parent or parents, it might be a good idea. Of course the child would have the option of having it removed when they turn 18.

As for my children/grandchildren...won't happen. My grandchildren's children...it depends on how society turns out for that generation, it's pretty fucked up now, what will it be like in ten or twenty years?