Google Chrome has become surveillance software.

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Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch. – Silicon Valley

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Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the web.

This was made possible by the web’s biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.
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I believe it goes deeper than that. A couple of months ago I told the wife I was getting a Shelby Mustang GT next year (yeah sure). I wasn't browsing or anything just talking. An advertisement or article for "The Amazing 2020 Ford Mustang GT" showed up in my feed with an hour.

There was a reason Steve Jobs kept a piece of tape over his computers face cam and his mike turned off while he wasn't using it.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
I believe it goes deeper than that. A couple of months ago I told the wife I was getting a Shelby Mustang GT next year (yeah sure). I wasn't browsing or anything just talking. An advertisement or article for "The Amazing 2020 Ford Mustang GT" showed up in my feed with an hour.

There was a reason Steve Jobs kept a piece of tape over his computers face cam and his mike turned off while he wasn't using it.
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McMom and I have had similar things happen to us. Mention something we will need in the coming months, brainstorming some get-a-way ideas, etc, lo and behold ads specific to what we discussed (but had not searched for) appear.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
I believe it goes deeper than that. A couple of months ago I told the wife I was getting a Shelby Mustang GT next year (yeah sure). I wasn't browsing or anything just talking. An advertisement or article for "The Amazing 2020 Ford Mustang GT" showed up in my feed with an hour.

There was a reason Steve Jobs kept a piece of tape over his computers face cam and his mike turned off while he wasn't using it.
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Same happened to me talking about Jamison whiskey with people. Never searched it but ads popped up for it.
 
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Hunerwadel said:
I believe it goes deeper than that. A couple of months ago I told the wife I was getting a Shelby Mustang GT next year (yeah sure). I wasn't browsing or anything just talking. An advertisement or article for "The Amazing 2020 Ford Mustang GT" showed up in my feed with an hour.

There was a reason Steve Jobs kept a piece of tape over his computers face cam and his mike turned off while he wasn't using it.
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Wow. That is unsettling on a 1984 "Big Brother" level. I would hate to see what kind of ads T-TownVol is getting... Poor guy probably can't see out from underneath all of the stuff he gets hawking 'Extenze'.
 
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superdave1984 said:
Your smart devices are too. Alexa? Siri? Heck yes. You are being monitored constantly. We are paying for convenience with the loss of privacy.
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Google pulls videos accusing it of election manipulation from YouTube... which it owns

Time to break up Google.

Google’s video platform YouTube is apparently no place for content that accuses the tech giant of political bias and election meddling. An expose based on a sting operation was taken down by the company a day after its release.
The online behemoth found itself in the crosshairs of Project Veritas, a conservative action group that purports to expose pro-liberal biases at various American organizations through sting operations and by publishing leaked material. Its report on Monday claimed that Google deliberately tweaks its search algorithms to promote liberal agendas that it favors, and that this is intended to help “prevent the next Trump situation” in the upcoming elections.
YouTube, the world’s most popular video sharing platform, which is owned by Google, soon took down the videos that were uploaded by Project Veritas, its head James O’Keefe reported. The footage was removed “due to a privacy claim by a third party,” a message now tells anyone trying to view it.
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MG1968 said:
How is this possible? I thought rich, white people voted only for republicans.
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Those who earned their money usually do.

Most of these libs are the second and third generation rich kids, some just upper middle class, who have never seen or faced any trials or tribulations other than cheating on exams and getting caught, or drinking and drugging because they got too much time on their hands. They have never experienced "real" life. Similar to the majority of hippies tuning in and dropping out, they have the luxury of parent's or grandparent's money to not have to face any real consequences.


Further, the very wealthy live in a bubble. Take my private high school, we needed 1,000 hours of community service to graduate. I can't tell you how many of these kids embellished that fact on college transcripts, yet, were nothing but complainers and scared little fake wienies when having to actually do the work and put in the time.

They would never do it on their own time and dollar, it was just a way to say and make themselves feel better and look better. They would never enter in to any of these area's at any point in their lives except for this "volunteer" work. Better, how they wouldn't even interact or befriend some of the black inner city kids who were able to receive "scholarships" to school (sports hummmmm, selfish gain for notoriety and publicity for the school veiled in a commitment to community and those less fortunate).

Now, there are the exceptions, I knew THE asbestos lawyer, the guy who was the first to get in asbestos class action lawsuits. He made a couple hundred million, and stayed Democrat.....married a white uppity girl from Depauw who ironically recently gave a speech there pertaining to her white guilt.........she ain't never gone into East St. Louis on her own to help anyone though.....or any where for that matter. But, give her a swanky dinner party and let the agenda begin.
 
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tennvols77 said:
Those who earned their money usually do.

Most of these libs are the second and third generation rich kids, some just upper middle class, who have never seen or faced any trials or tribulations other than cheating on exams and getting caught, or drinking and drugging because they got too much time on their hands. They have never experienced "real" life. Similar to the majority of hippies tuning in and dropping out, they have the luxury of parent's or grandparent's money to not have to face any real consequences.


Further, the very wealthy live in a bubble. Take my private high school, we needed 1,000 hours of community service to graduate. I can't tell you how many of these kids embellished that fact on college transcripts, yet, were nothing but complainers and scared little fake wienies when having to actually do the work and put in the time.

They would never do it on their own time and dollar, it was just a way to say and make themselves feel better and look better. They would never enter in to any of these area's at any point in their lives except for this "volunteer" work. Better, how they wouldn't even interact or befriend some of the black inner city kids who were able to receive "scholarships" to school (sports hummmmm, selfish gain for notoriety and publicity for the school veiled in a commitment to community and those less fortunate).

Now, there are the exceptions, I knew THE asbestos lawyer, the guy who was the first to get in asbestos class action lawsuits. He made a couple hundred million, and stayed Democrat.....married a white uppity girl from Depauw who ironically recently gave a speech there pertaining to her white guilt.........she ain't never gone into East St. Louis on her own to help anyone though.....or any where for that matter. But, give her a swanky dinner party and let the agenda begin.
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CIA money is also involved. DARPA
 
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BigOrangeD said:
CIA money is also involved. DARPA
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Yeah, my post is sort of off topic, just a personal experience thing.

The one thing that will allow for a monopoly ruling is the inability of anyone being able to match the power of cash and market saturation of any company trying to compete with Google. Also, if it can be proven that Google has become an arm of the government and gained dominance in market share because of the government, there might be a case.

I do not like that the government needs to be involved, and rather favor a consortium of companies pulling together to compete. Ultimately, their product regardless of political affiliation or back door position, was made to be as it is by the consumer, and we the consumer, are just as much to blame. The question would be how much is the consumer responsible versus that of the government for Google's power.
 
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n_huffhines said:
When Republicans become the thing they claim to hate ^
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The only way to tell them a part now a days is by the little letter before their name or by the "agenda" they speak of. Behind closed doors, they are one in the same, and both, laugh at the American public. They are the ruling party, playing politics on a stage, and grabbing some tea and crumpets together off of it.
 
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