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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:53 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I know the government and Google are already stealing my data.


Stealing? Or are you freely giving it to them? :p

I'm not sure.
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:55 am

Dresderstan wrote:Good morning and a happy 21st birthday to me!


Happy birthday!
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Postby Valrifell » Thu Oct 17, 2019 6:58 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Stealing? Or are you freely giving it to them? :p

I'm not sure.


The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:01 am

Valrifell wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I'm not sure.


The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.

Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.
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"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
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"Affordability
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Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby Heloin » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:11 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.

Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.

Don't you worry, no one's spying on you.
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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:12 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.

Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.


I use the privacy badger plugin. It blocks trackers like google analytics and facebook trackers, etc. And next to that, also an ad block.
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Heloin
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Postby Heloin » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:15 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.


I use the privacy badger plugin. It blocks trackers like google analytics and facebook trackers, etc. And next to that, also an ad block.

I enjoy playing analytical roulette. Google can't seem to work out where I'm from or what I am so the ads I get on youtube have no bearing on targeted marketing. Currently google think's I'm Finnish and a 50+ year old male.
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Pacomia
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Postby Pacomia » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:15 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.

Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.

I don’t like being spied on, but the government is going to do it anyway and to be honest, I’d rather have the Internet. So although everything about me is known to some company, it’s tough for me to do anything satisfactory about it.
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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:15 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.


I use the privacy badger plugin. It blocks trackers like google analytics and facebook trackers, etc. And next to that, also an ad block.

Privacy Badger? I'll look into it.
The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
They can’t stop the Signal
"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
-Hurtful Thoughts on stuff you want in a gun
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The Blaatschapen
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:22 am

Heloin wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
I use the privacy badger plugin. It blocks trackers like google analytics and facebook trackers, etc. And next to that, also an ad block.

I enjoy playing analytical roulette. Google can't seem to work out where I'm from or what I am so the ads I get on youtube have no bearing on targeted marketing. Currently google think's I'm Finnish and a 50+ year old male.


I was in Estonia for a few days, got Estonian ads for a month :)

It was a nice change from the Serbian ones the month before, time was running out.
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Pacomia
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Postby Pacomia » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:25 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Heloin wrote:I enjoy playing analytical roulette. Google can't seem to work out where I'm from or what I am so the ads I get on youtube have no bearing on targeted marketing. Currently google think's I'm Finnish and a 50+ year old male.


I was in Estonia for a few days, got Estonian ads for a month :)

It was a nice change from the Serbian ones the month before, time was running out.

I do get local ads but since my search history is so weird and varied (first I’ll be looking at the tallest building in Kansas City, then I’ll have searched up “how many korean war casualties” out of the blue) that it just doesn’t know what kinds to show me.
This nation is based on (a slightly more extreme version of) my IRL opinions, and I answer issues accordingly.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:29 am

Valrifell wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:I'm not sure.


The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.


Sure they do, and have been doing so since the late 1990’s, and don’t think for a second the US is the only one doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:46 am

Heloin wrote:
Pax Nerdvana wrote:Hence why I've stopped using Google, but I think companies are still spying on me.

Don't you worry, no one's spying on you.
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Just hard working flower delivery men taking a well-earned break.


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Pax Nerdvana
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Postby Pax Nerdvana » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:50 am

I think Google thought I was an elderly man. I kept getting ads for chairlifts, stroke recovery systems, and similar things.
The Internet killed gun control.
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We Will Not Comply
They can’t stop the Signal
"The universe did never make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract."
-Robert Heinlein

"Affordability
Suitability (.22LR for squirrels, bigger .22s for long range little things, and big-bore for legal hunting reasons, etc)
Ammunition supply-chain (6.5x55 Swede and .303 British, although available, isn't exactly everywhere)
If it's ugly, uncomfortable, and can't shoot straight, but it accomplishes the above, then it's either a Mosin or a Hi-Point."
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:54 am

Pax Nerdvana wrote:I think Google thought I was an elderly man. I kept getting ads for chairlifts, stroke recovery systems, and similar things.

Perhaps a lot of senior citizens live in your neighbourhood? Your residential area also tends to be of influence when it comes to receiving online ads.


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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:55 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Heloin wrote:Don't you worry, no one's spying on you.
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Just hard working flower delivery men taking a well-earned break.


Irene is men?

:p
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:56 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Just hard working flower delivery men taking a well-earned break.

Irene is men?

:p

That's just the name of the company, Blaat.


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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:04 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Hurdergaryp wrote:Just hard working flower delivery men taking a well-earned break.


Irene is men?

:p


And you have an issue with that? :evil:
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Kiruri » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:14 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Heloin wrote:Don't you worry, no one's spying on you.
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Just hard working flower delivery men taking a well-earned break.


I think I saw a porno once with that same sentence as its tagline.
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Postby Kiruri » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:15 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
The government doesn't have the resources to spy on everyone all the time, so tends to focus on specific "high risks" that they detect through one way or another.

Google collects your data based on your metadata, making assumptions based on your search data for targeted advertising.

And you technically agree to this arrangement, since (iirc) you accept the terms and conditions of Google by using Google.


Sure they do, and have been doing so since the late 1990’s, and don’t think for a second the US is the only one doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)


I wonder what your file says, Ethy
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:27 am

Kiruri wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Sure they do, and have been doing so since the late 1990’s, and don’t think for a second the US is the only one doing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnivore_(software)


I wonder what your file says, Ethy


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https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:29 am

Ethel mermania wrote:
Kiruri wrote:
I wonder what your file says, Ethy


Uri, I am building the police state, once subway station at a time.


Ah, you're part of the underground movement.
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Ethel mermania
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Postby Ethel mermania » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:30 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Uri, I am building the police state, once subway station at a time.


Ah, you're part of the underground movement.


I wonder if my file says that? I will have to check.
https://www.hvst.com/posts/the-clash-of ... s-wl2TQBpY

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion … but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
--S. Huntington

The most fundamental problem of politics is not the control of wickedness but the limitation of righteousness. 

--H. Kissenger
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Postby Xuloqoia » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:41 am

Eternal Lotharia wrote:RP concept: Star Wars Eternal Arena
The name means just what you think it means. As many fights as we want can happen at once. Improvement based progression and story, in the arena villains are just dickish rivals, Sith are philosophical pricks.

Thoughts?


No offense, but I'm not a fan of the concept.
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Postby Kiruri » Thu Oct 17, 2019 8:45 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:
Uri, I am building the police state, once subway station at a time.


Ah, you're part of the underground movement.


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