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Offline Fenix

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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #20 on: March 02, 2012, 03:28:20 PM »
Quote from: SirTJ on March 02, 2012, 02:51:19 PM
Google can track you whether you have an account or not. If you have internet, you can be tracked.

Yes, Google can send personalized ads to a specific IP address, but it cannot know who the person is. While it is not totally private, at least it is restricted to one specific IP address.

If you sign in with Google and search, it can track and send you personalized ads and get your data no matter what PC you are using.

Or in your case, Mac...
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #21 on: March 02, 2012, 03:58:36 PM »
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #22 on: March 02, 2012, 04:18:38 PM »
Quote from: Fenix on March 02, 2012, 03:28:20 PM
Yes, Google can send personalized ads to a specific IP address, but it cannot know who the person is. While it is not totally private, at least it is restricted to one specific IP address.

If you sign in with Google and search, it can track and send you personalized ads and get your data no matter what PC you are using.

Or in your case, Mac...
Reads your emails, too... I sent some emails to some folks about getting their flyers printed, and the very next second ads started popping up about printing flyers.
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #23 on: March 02, 2012, 04:34:58 PM »
Quote from: nessalynn77 on March 02, 2012, 04:18:38 PM
Reads your emails, too... I sent some emails to some folks about getting their flyers printed, and the very next second ads started popping up about printing flyers.

I have been getting banner ads for this or that checking account from this or that bank in my Gmail because I have been getting emails from this or that bank for an interview. I haven't been irritated because I love Gmail and the ads are so small and inconspicuous that I don't really notice them. 
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #24 on: March 02, 2012, 04:39:40 PM »
It's just not a good feeling. Just like the FB privacy invasion techniques. I mean, I guess they're making it so that when you go out into the www, it's like stepping out your front door and you have no reasonable expectation of privacy. I hate it, but it is what it is, I guess.
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #25 on: March 02, 2012, 05:08:25 PM »
Quote from: Fenix on March 02, 2012, 04:34:58 PM
I have been getting banner ads for this or that checking account from this or that bank in my Gmail because I have been getting emails from this or that bank for an interview. I haven't been irritated because I love Gmail and the ads are so small and inconspicuous that I don't really notice them. 
It worked out good for me in one instance.  I looked at the Health Master and went to order it, but when I saw the total after the Nevada tax and shipping I backed out.  For like 2 month after that I'd get Healthmaster ads on Youtube, google, and gmail, but then one day they cut the price by 1/4th and offered free shipping.  I decided to get it then.
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #26 on: March 02, 2012, 05:12:43 PM »
Quote from: nessalynn77 on March 02, 2012, 05:08:25 PM
It worked out good for me in one instance.  I looked at the Health Master and went to order it, but when I saw the total after the Nevada tax and shipping I backed out.  For like 2 month after that I'd get Healthmaster ads on Youtube, google, and gmail, but then one day they cut the price by 1/4th and offered free shipping.  I decided to get it then.

You have raised a very interesting point. I suppose you are not being blindly monitored. I know that there are firms out there who specialize in data-mining, so they will try and find a way to get you to buy products based on your behavior. If they see that you have clicked the ad several times without buying, they may introduce a sort of deal or price drop.

In a way, we can game the system too.
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #27 on: March 02, 2012, 05:16:08 PM »
nothing on the internet is private


privacy on the internet breaks the internet in order for it to work it has to know who everyone is point blank


btw did you guys hear about how some companies are telling local governments to sell their information to help pay stuff?!?!? i need to find that link
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Re: Mozilla Exposes the All-Seeing Eye!
« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2012, 07:33:45 PM »
this just reminded me of a funny story about privacy


every time you search for a website some search engines (google) keep track of what you searched to provide analytics.


Well shortly after my church's website went live someone did a few searches for a particular young lady at our church followed up by searches of if that young lady was married LOL!!! priceless


anyway, point of the story is everything on the internet is tracked just the same that every car that goes through an intersection that uses cameras to change lights is also tracked.
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