Posted: 4/20/2011 7:15:07 PM EDT
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Remember when it was all the rage to get someone to give you a gmail invite?
Now they link your accounts, every computer you log into to check your email suddenly gets associated with you and all your google searches show up as ads in the email. I was researching a client case on a claim against a veterinarian. Just doing google research at my desk at work. Got home, checked my gmail, and there's all sorts of vet related ads in the side bar. I've got an old AOL account still out there. Damned if I might not just go back to it. Or maybe the service from the kids at MIT. Might be worth the $10 a month just to have some got damned privacy. http://luxsci.com/blog/ |
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I actualy pay 30 dollers a year for 3 email address from a company that i previously had a dialup account with. when i dropped the dial up i simply asked the owner if i could contiunue to pay for the rights to keep my email act with him. he shrugged and thought about it a min and said 30 bucks a year ok? me: yup here it is.
fuck gmail, hotmail, yahoo and all the trashmail.coms there is.. |
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No way to escape it... I'd rather Google have my data than Yahoo or Microsoft... Sure about that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew |
I've stuck to Yahoo mail for more than a decade and tend to use it the most. The only other email I use is my college email.
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No way to escape it... I'd rather Google have my data than Yahoo or Microsoft... Sure about that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew I kinda wanna bone that reporter. Don't know why, but she gives me a raging hard on. |
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No way to escape it... I'd rather Google have my data than Yahoo or Microsoft... Sure about that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew Yep... |
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Nope. Gmail has all my contact numbers and emails for all my friends. Which is synced to my Android phone so I never worry about breaking my phone and loosing my contacts. Then I link facebook to my phone's contact list that comes from gmail and voila! I have a facebook photo for each person on my contact list. With google I can post on someones' wall, read their status, call them, text them, etc... And in return they get to know that I like porn and own guns. I feel very confident that with the amount of background research the US military has put into me, there aint much I care about google knowing. If it's good enough for a clearance, it's good enough for google to know
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No way to escape it... I'd rather Google have my data than Yahoo or Microsoft... Sure about that? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6e7wfDHzew Google Toilet |
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Nope. Gmail has all my contact numbers and emails for all my friends. Which is synced to my Android phone so I never worry about breaking my phone and loosing my contacts. Then I link facebook to my phone's contact list that comes from gmail and voila! I have a facebook photo for each person on my contact list. With google I can post on someones' wall, read their status, call them, text them, etc... And in return they get to know that I like porn and own guns. I feel very confident that with the amount of background research the US military has put into me, there aint much I care about google knowing. If it's good enough for a clearance, it's good enough for google to know Yeah, right until the "National Health Care Authority" makes it compulsory under the law to identify all Americans creating "unreasonable health risks" and you get identified by google because of your gun hobby. Or maybe people will figure out that "friends" linked by phone, facebook, etc., have correlation in terms of driving accidents, insurance losses, credit risks, etc., and start analyzing you in that fashion too. I'm glad you're a charitable fellow, but if there is anything the history of human kind shows, it is that that kind of power is always ALWAYS abused and misused. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Yeah, the amount of account linking involved with gmail and facebook is starting to piss me off.  I thought I was the only one. What I fear is Google taking over the desktop OS market, and as I understand it they are working on just that. Been saying this for a while and most people (including many here) thought I was just nuts. Get firefox with noscript and see for yourself how much google and facebook really do track your travels on the interwebs. |
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Quoted: What you've described will only get worse in the future with any provider. I like being able to sync my contacts, calendar and email w/ my Droid more than I'm concerned with Google having perfected tracking my web traffic for advertising. Unless you go out of your way to use encryption and proxies, you'll never win that battle.Remember when it was all the rage to get someone to give you a gmail invite? Now they link your accounts, every computer you log into to check your email suddenly gets associated with you and all your google searches show up as ads in the email. I was researching a client case on a claim against a veterinarian. Just doing google research at my desk at work. Got home, checked my gmail, and there's all sorts of vet related ads in the side bar. I've got an old AOL account still out there. Damned if I might not just go back to it. Or maybe the service from the kids at MIT. Might be worth the $10 a month just to have some got damned privacy. http://luxsci.com/blog/ |
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Kind of already have with Android. When their new OP comes out for desktops and such it will probably be this new "cloud" shit like linex and others are pushing. It's even worse for trying to keep things private, key word TRRYYY
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Yeah, the amount of account linking involved with gmail and facebook is starting to piss me off. I thought I was the only one. What I fear is Google taking over the desktop OS market, and as I understand it they are working on just that. |
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Remember when it was all the rage to get someone to give you a gmail invite? Now they link your accounts, every computer you log into to check your email suddenly gets associated with you and all your google searches show up as ads in the email. I was researching a client case on a claim against a veterinarian. Just doing google research at my desk at work. Got home, checked my gmail, and there's all sorts of vet related ads in the side bar. I've got an old AOL account still out there. Damned if I might not just go back to it. Or maybe the service from the kids at MIT. Might be worth the $10 a month just to have some got damned privacy. http://luxsci.com/blog/ since i am a it guy who is a exchange engineer, i simply run my own server(s) at home so dont use google other than for email from signing up for stuff online or as a secondary email for contacting me. Its their network, their bandwidth and their rules. if you dont like what they do with your email dont use them its really as simple as that. Im not sticking up for googles privacy practices but it is what it is. there are ways around google collecting information on your searches like using a proxy to route your web traffic through or sites that search google for you, i think one was goog.com. dunno, most of my searches are for It related stuff and honestly google cant be beat for that. |
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Quoted: The amount of big-brotheresque tracking that goes on these days is frightening. Between facebook, Google, and my iPhone, every aspect of my life is logged and tracked.  think about this.. if you are "tracked" long enough, they could then predict your behavior, maybe even better then you could |
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Nope. Gmail has all my contact numbers and emails for all my friends. Which is synced to my Android phone so I never worry about breaking my phone and loosing my contacts. Then I link facebook to my phone's contact list that comes from gmail and voila! I have a facebook photo for each person on my contact list. With google I can post on someones' wall, read their status, call them, text them, etc... And in return they get to know that I like porn and own guns. I feel very confident that with the amount of background research the US military has put into me, there aint much I care about google knowing. If it's good enough for a clearance, it's good enough for google to know I take it you aren't on PRP. 
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Firefox + Private email server + Linux + AdBlock + NoScript + TACO +WOT = A Great Deal of Freedom.
Gmail is excellent for backing up files to, once you've double encrypted them with PGP 2048 or better and the private key is on a thumb drive in a vault beneath your house, next to the cyanide capsules. |
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Quoted: Firefox + Private email server + Linux + AdBlock + NoScript + TACO +WOT = A Great Deal of Freedom. Gmail is excellent for backing up files to, once you've double encrypted them with PGP 2048 or better and the private key is on a thumb drive in a vault beneath your house, next to the cyanide capsules. Please komrade do not be forgetting the family of rabid AK wielding possums living in the krawlspace to further protekt the valuable key of public and private. I must now go and feed my minions. Also, big +1 on firefox etc. |
| I no longer login to gmail on a computer. I just get my mail on my blackberry and there is no ads. I typically deal with more text than html emails. Mostly work related stuff and I didn't want an email address that reads [email protected] so I just gave them my gmail address instead. Works for me and I see no reason to change since my entire extended family knows my email address. |
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I no longer login to gmail on a computer. I just get my mail on my blackberry and there is no ads. I typically deal with more text than html emails. Mostly work related stuff and I didn't want an email address that reads [email protected] so I just gave them my gmail address instead. Works for me and I see no reason to change since my entire extended family knows my email address. Yeah, the thing is... I still think google is "mining" the content of your emails to tailor search stuff even if you never use the service. The funny thing is how blatant they are. Here's their privacy policy. At bottom it says nice things, basically that they'll only give out information about you if they have your permission. http://www.google.com/intl/en/privacy/privacy-policy.html But wait, here's their Terms and Conditions: http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS?hl=en Take a good look at item 7.2. And all of article 11. There's you giving them blanket permission. So you combine the documents and they say, we won't use your shit unless you give us permission, and in the other document, you give that permission. Then look at section 13.5. When you end your relationship, those irrevocable perpetual licenses you have given to everything you've put through the site stay active, forever. |
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Yeah, the amount of account linking involved with gmail and facebook is starting to piss me off. I thought I was the only one. What I fear is Google taking over the desktop OS market, and as I understand it they are working on just that. Been saying this for a while and most people (including many here) thought I was just nuts. Get firefox with noscript and see for yourself how much google and facebook really do track your travels on the interwebs. A lot of the google stuff is prevalent because Google Analytics is used by a whole ton of companies to research click patterns, etc. on their own websites so they can continually work on optimizing the site based on user behaviors. Sort of like Omniture by Adobe... but it's more sinister if Google provides it I guess. |