Posted on 03/13/2019 8:26:09 AM PDT by rktman
Did you know that unlike searching on DuckDuckGo, when you search on Google, they keep your search history forever? That means they know every search you’ve ever done on Google. That alone is pretty scary, but it’s just the shallow end of the very deep pool of data that they try to collect on people.
What most people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use any Google products directly, they’re still trying to track as much as they can about you. Google trackers have been found on 75% of the top million websites. This means they're also trying to track most everywhere you go on the internet, trying to slurp up your browsing history!
Most people also don’t know that Google runs most of the ads you see across the internet and in apps – you know those ones that follow you around everywhere? Yup, that’s Google, too. They aren’t really a search company anymore – they’re a tracking company. They are tracking as much as they can for these annoying and intrusive ads, including recording every time you see them, where you saw them, if you clicked on them, etc.
But even that’s not all…
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P.S. Mr. Weinberg started duckduckgo. My first choice followed by startpage.
WANT TO BE SURPRISED?
GOOGLE YOUR OWN NAME.
WANT TO HAVE FUN?
GOOGLE THE NAMES OF YOUR FRIENDS AND RELATIVES...................
Answer: More than you know about yourself.
I’m on and off a computer all day most days and have been a long time but the inter technical workings, software or hardware, of the damn thing I have never have GOT!
I know though that in civil litigation which I’ve been consistently involved in for almost 50 years there’s a phenomena called “document/data” OVERLOAD.
See, over in the corner there are sometimes 50 boxes FULL of files produced by what’s called “discovery”. Guess What? Years go by and the half dozen or so attorneys involved, to say nothing of the clients, have not seen 10% of the documents “hands on” or “eyes on” and NEVER Will. And, the judge, Laugh out REAL LOUD will rarely read more than one sentence without it having been stuck in front of his face and highlighted to the max.
So, when Google has 75 million bits of documents about this or 4 trillion of that, what practical good does it do them?
My question is this why is google worth so much money?
why do they have the ability to pay hundreds of thousands of people just to sit around looking at the computer all day Spying on the activities of other people?
How is that profitable?
And if the answer is advertising money I think they’re nuts
The government lets this happen because the government wants it done and they think its illegal for the government to do it. So the CIA and FBI are happy to let Facebook and Google flaunt our laws. Then our government can ask the two software giants to provide all the information they are not allowed to collect themselves. This is why Google is not allowed in China. Of course the Google phone operating system and the Apple phone operating system do the same thing. As well as Google Maps. So you are being tracked as long as you have a cell phone on your person. Even if you put the phone in airplane mode, and turn off the cell phone its tracking where it goes and sending Google the information as soon as you turn it back on.
A few years ago I tried everything I could think of, to remove, prevent, or thwart google tracking. Gave up eventually, nothing worked.
I turned on the location tracking on my Android phone (if they are going to track me I’d might as well know what they know). The other day I got an email detailing all the places I’d been to. It was eye opening.
If you try Google Photos you will quickly find out that the facial recognition software built into this "free" app would have been envied by the CIA only a couple of years ago.
Intelligence and forecasting. It is what they do and many will pay big bucks for it. The more data they have the more accurate they can be.
See, over in the corner there are sometimes 50 boxes FULL of files produced by what’s called “discovery”. Guess What? Years go by and the half dozen or so attorneys involved, to say nothing of the clients, have not seen 10% of the documents “hands on” or “eyes on” and NEVER Will.
Look at the pretty mother who was killed in Colorado a few months back. Nobody was interested in the boyfriend at all. Nobody knew the boyfriend had another girl on the side. But as soon as the mother went missing and the police cared to look into it. They could track everywhere he went for years back. They could track any other phone that followed him. They could see two phones in a motel spend all night together. They could see everywhere the mother went and every time the other girlfriend spoke to her boyfriend or went anywhere. They could find every purchase, every movement, every text or phone call. And it does not take a room full of lawyers. It takes a data analyst a few hours. Now they can search the security cameras which are everywhere with exact times. And they know he killed her. They know which national park she was dumped in. They just don’t know which coyote cleaned her bones.
Also, Google sells the info to advertisers who don’t care how accurate it is. Advertising is not exact. But they do sell it to people who want to investigate you. So if you said anything on line, the democrats can see it as soon as your name gets their notice.
Most of it isn’t for them directly. Most of it is part of google analytics, which tracks how often ads are viewed, how often there’s click through, how long people stay after they click through. This is all to figure out how much advertisers should pay where they’re advertising. Also used for targeted ads, to get the ads you’re most likely to click through in front of you.
Maybe not originally, but you can bet they've incorporated it into their system now.
It always amazes me when I see idiots responding to the "random" Facebook surveys -- have you ridden in a police car? have you traveled to another country? do you have a tattoo? have you been in an ambulance? have you been drunk? have you been camping? have you... on and on?
Where do these dummies think this stuff is coming from? Where do users think the data is going? They all think it's an innocent, silly thing to respond to, but at the least, you're being profiled for advertisers, at the worse, your being profiled by the three-letter agencies.
LOL! Yeah, same with facebook. Product? What product? All in the ads.
Yeah, Mrs rktman keeps hers on and it’s pretty disgusting. Not just cell tower pings, a detailed map, routes and durations.
One of my offspring belongs to a circle of friends that includes some drivers for various delivery services. Medications and such tings. They will give their phones to each other and drive their routes and see what Google has to say about it. The part I found interesting is that they give up their phones for a day just to mess with Google.
Their mission is to know as much as possible about you. I recall this being openly stated years and years ago.
They don’t have people doing it. They have software that goes through it. You’re just a collection of data points that helps advertisers target their best possible audience. And that’s worth a lot. The hardest part of advertising is aiming it at the right people. Advertising your Mexican restaurant to people who can’t eat spicy foods does no good, and Google figures that out.
The CIA “Lifelog” program shut down one day and Fakebook started the next day with many spookes in their employ. I don't remember the details of google.
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