Whoa.... possible puzzle piece.
While we are throwing things out there, along with the net neutrality/social media/goog/etc issues. For many of us it has become quite personal! (As Q indicated even if not on fb, we are ALLL being tracked!
Those who have been customers of yahoo and AOL email services, there is a new “privacy policy/agreement” they are trying to foist on us, called “OATH” as a blending from the merger of these two entities.
Among other desecrations, as I have read it, they give themselves not only the right to mine your data, but also specifics of your email content..... INCLUDING BANKING DATA.
FWIW:
There is a thread on this topic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3648334/posts?page=1
I’m pinging a number of Q thread participants in the event you might be interested. In the event that you are not, my apologies.;
Thank you. I have seen this several places but have not received it yet from Yahoo.
I got along without email before the internet was invented, so I’ll get along without it again - not taking their stupid oath - they are STUPID OAFS if they think I will. Pfft.
Very grateful for this info.
What an abomination.
My take: It’s probably been going on for years, but now they are making you acknowledge that it’s ok.
tracking:
Something I think we miss on this topic is that it is not simple data mining and aggregation of personal information, nor is it only constant updates on our geographic locations.
What FB, IG,Twitter et al does is curate our feeds. (And think about that word: they are feeding us like garden plants or livestock)Whatever they want us to believe/accept will get widely shared and garner positive responses, ensuring that we share similar ideas/memes widely in order to be *liked*). They will work to feed us more of these. Whatever they do not want us to believe/accept will be muted/shadow banned, limited in shares and so, will NOT return positive responses so that we share these ideas/memes less to fewer recipients. They will actively work to show us fewer of these.
People are being _molded_ by social media. The more interactive it is, the stronger the effect on peoples’ psych. This is why they brag they can tweak elections and have a 90% ability to change beliefs and loyalties. Whatever we love will be associated with what they want us to accept. Whatever they want us to reject will be associated with things we have been conditioned to reject. They can engender love and respect and devotion in a large percentage of the populace. A simplistic example: you respond favorably to green-eyed redheads, then green-eyed redheads will show up in the ads shown to you.
It is unethical manipulation of our minds, hearts and souls. The mined data is the leverage. It is valuable in its own right as a product to be sold to advertisers, but it is used as a wedge to gain entry to our beliefs, opinions and our actions. It is a kind of rape.
On Saturday I went to a Honda dealership, got home and had an ad for Hondas in my Yahoo email.