Posted on 10/12/2018 12:05:45 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater
Dr. Epstein :
I can't even begin to emphasize how important it is to you, to NOT use GMail. The problem is so extensive, its hard to condense into a sentence or two.
But the point is, they're taking that information, not just from the emails you send, but even from the drafts, those crazy drafts, that you just decide not to send, that all becomes part of your personal profile.
If you're mentioning other people, that goes into THEIR personal profiles. If someone writes back to you from some other email service, well it doesn't matter, they're monitoring that email as well.
We're talking about an accumulation of knowledge, which if someone is in their, lets say 30's, which might be the equivalent of, and I'm not kidding you, might be 3 million Word pages of information. Thats how quickly information piles up.
I published an article, not long ago, titled "Free isn't Freedom", in which I explore this, and I explain about that little trickle of services you get every day from these companies, and that little trickle of information you provide, and that little trickle just continues every single day. But at their end, whats happening is a mountain, a MOUNTAIN of material is being accumulated, and newer and newer ways of USING that material are being invented all the time.
So there's no telling how that material could be used to affect your life. It IS being used now to make decisions about you without you even knowing it. these companies are building literally digital models of you, they're predicting your behavior. and they are influencing you.
And the more they know about you, the easier it is for them to manipulate you without your awareness, so even if you have nothing to hide, you're still at tremendous risk by providing day after day, more and more of this trickle of information to these companies.
You have to be CRAZY in my opinion, to be using GMail, to be using Chrome which is Google's browser, to be using ANY Google product... Google docs, Google wallet, you name it. It's all contributing to this problem.
Epstein has done important work on using search engines to manipulate elections invisibly. Manipulation by order of results, by autocomplete. A starting point is his webpage http://drrobertepstein.com/index.php/internet-studies.
Dr Epstein has impeccable establishment credentials. Former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. His work on elections was published in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences USA. He can’t be dismissed as a mere Deplorable.
“The New Mind Control” mentions work by others on a different way to manipulate elections invisibly. Facebook could identify the political leanings of many of its users, and send out “get out the vote” reminders only to those users who agree with Facebook’s politics. A small effect, around half a percent in the experiment, but maybe important in a close election.
Epstein’s article in POLITICO “How Google could rig the 2016 election” has a good summary near the end on “the gold standards of research in the behavioral sciences.” How to do these things right, explained in one paragraph for a general audience.
I have to say bookmark import was offered, but I ignored it because I don't use bookmarks much any more due to link rot. Usually I just archive the web page in a permanent cache.
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Brave is great but it’s a memory hog.
hmm I didn’t notice that but in retrospect was running it under 16gb with no competition...heh...
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