Posted on 06/21/2010 11:46:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Be careful what you type and where you go when you use Google. Your keystrokes are being tracked and kept and may be used against you in future for any reason at all.
Google is not anyone’s friend...except government.
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Scroogle.org
I watched in horror as google “disappeared” half a million hits on image searches for “obama birth certificate” in mid July 2008.
I use Bing now.
Awesome! And Limbaugh wants folks to pay Carbonite for the same service.
RE: Awesome! And Limbaugh wants folks to pay Carbonite for the same service.
I read news that Google cooperates with the FBI when they ask for SEARCH and other information on suspects who commit crime. I don’t think Carbonite does that.
Sadly, this goes beyond actual use of Google.
Every time you have a screen that shows a YouTube video embedded in it, such as here at Free Republic, they know it’s the same person who has the Google cookie and who did all of the following searches over the past ten years on Google or one of its partners using Google search. It also knows you looked at certain maps and looked up certain shopping information.
Not only that, but by default, every article you’ve looked at on Free Republic Google is aware of, because Jim uses Google’s Analytics to rate his pages. The cookies are only a fall-back if your IP address is changed, but honestly, since ISPs like Comcast and AT&T give you an IP address out of 256 possibilities in your immediate location, Google knows that it’s you all the time, because out of the 256 IP addresses you might have changed once every few months when you reboot your modem, you are the only one who keeps going to Free Republic and DrudgeReport.
Yes, even if you never saved cookies, Google is recording IP addresses. If you have ANY YouTube or Gmail or other Google login, guess what, they now can tie your name and address to everything you’ve ever touched of theirs.
We need to starve the Beast and erase cookies, turn off scripts (a hassle, but more easily done in Firefox than IE) and reboot your modem more often (waiting at least a minutes to assure you get a different address rather than a reissue of the one you had).
It’s really insidious, from a company that gives 99+% to only hard core liberals and which has no reasonable privacy policy.
Nothing you do online is anonymous. Nothing is so aggravating as people who publish blogs and forums, and then whine about their privacy, as if their published stuff is really just meant to exist inside their head.
You CAN be anonymous. It takes a minimal amount of work and knowledge. But it is up to you to do it, because everyone else will just pick your bones clean.
Bing didn’t systematically eliminate images and links critical of OilBama. Bing didn’t systematically push links critical of Bush.
I don’t trust that anything I type on-line will ever disappear, regardless of the form or format.
Even if an individual website promptly erases their records, I’m sure our enemies have an essentially unlimited ability to intercept and record every bit of raw data.
Should someone become sufficiently inconvenient, a nation-state has the ability to focus immense resources to sorting through their archives and detecting and decrypting all of the peon’s traffic.
Is anybody knowledgeable about anonymous proxies? Are they a solution to protect your privacy?
If a leftist US administration wanted to set up a Gestapo, would it outsource? Say, the muscle end to SEIU and the information-gathering end to Google?
Al looks more and more like the other Al ( Baldwin ) everyday.
>”Al looks more and more like the other Al ( Baldwin ) everyday.”
Man, I know!
Some trivia for ya.
One of them is a “thoughtless little pig”. The other called his daughter that.
One “Wants to buy a Filipina wife”
One has now been banned from ever visiting the Philippines again.
I can’t stand Google or the way they do business. But I use them for things like “what is a formulary equivalent for(insert prescription drug here)?” or “How many casualties in the Battle of Savo Island?”
I work with a guy who is pretty liberal, nice guy, but he worships Google.
They give me the creeps.
I like Scroogle as well.
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