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I am adopting a different approach. It seems likely that I may not be able to de-BigBrother myself without tremendous efforts. There are all kinds of devils

I am adopting a different approach. It seems likely that I may not be able to de-BigBrother myself without tremendous efforts. There are all kinds of devils out there, why not at least sell the soul only to a single devil? So I am going all Google. Nothing else. I exclusively use all their products (even Google+). I don't have FB, Twitter etc. Google is the devil I have sold my soul to.

Avamander 9y ago
I'm pretty much same. I don't like it, but I won't use anything else either. It's bad enough that one company has so much data. I kind-of like the analogy someone told to me at some point that I prefer to shoot myself once in the chest instead of three times to the leg.
Kagerjay 9y ago
I do the same and with youtube as well. I bookmark video timestamps by leaving comments and liking videos to see if I've watched the entire thing. I do the same with stackoverflow too(upvoting comments if it was helpful). Later i can browse my likes across many platforms to refresh what I was looking up. Might as well apply data capturing to yourself and reap its benefits
ataturk 9y ago
Uh, there is something wrong with your logic. You are right that all this data ends up in the hands of "intelligence agencies" but you can't just sit back and say "ah, the Stasi aren't so bad" while they're kicking in doors and terrorizing people. Which, granted, hasn't happened on a large scale in the US--yet. But here's the thing: Parallel construction is real and so my suspicion is that this data is being used--A LOT--and it flies under the radar because nobody cares about drug dealers and gang members. Sooner or later it gets used on all of us, though. It's only a matter of time. Look at China with that whole life score thing they are doing. It's cringeworthy--a total abuse of technology to compress individualism and destroy any will to fight Communist oppression. It is inhumane how the state crushes us. We must resist, the same as if machines took over and Skynet tried to kill us all.
pbhjpbhj 9y ago
Doesn't matter which drain you go down, they all go to the sewer! Surely once Google sell your data, or access to it, then you're in no better position than of above else were selling it? Google release it into the wild, presumably, just like other companies do.
moretai 9y ago
So sad it has come to this.
lucaspottersky 9y ago
besides everything else mentioned before, i feel like this is a double-sword situation. centralizing every aspect of your life into 1 company gives them a much more refined picture about yourself than if your info were scattared around with other companies.

Avamander 9y ago

I'm pretty much same. I don't like it, but I won't use anything else either. It's bad enough that one company has so much data. I kind-of like the analogy someone told to me at some point that I prefer to shoot myself once in the chest instead of three times to the leg.

Kagerjay 9y ago

I do the same and with youtube as well. I bookmark video timestamps by leaving comments and liking videos to see if I've watched the entire thing. I do the same with stackoverflow too(upvoting comments if it was helpful). Later i can browse my likes across many platforms to refresh what I was looking up. Might as well apply data capturing to yourself and reap its benefits

ataturk 9y ago

Uh, there is something wrong with your logic. You are right that all this data ends up in the hands of "intelligence agencies" but you can't just sit back and say "ah, the Stasi aren't so bad" while they're kicking in doors and terrorizing people. Which, granted, hasn't happened on a large scale in the US--yet. But here's the thing: Parallel construction is real and so my suspicion is that this data is being used--A LOT--and it flies under the radar because nobody cares about drug dealers and gang members. Sooner or later it gets used on all of us, though. It's only a matter of time. Look at China with that whole life score thing they are doing. It's cringeworthy--a total abuse of technology to compress individualism and destroy any will to fight Communist oppression. It is inhumane how the state crushes us. We must resist, the same as if machines took over and Skynet tried to kill us all.

pbhjpbhj 9y ago

Doesn't matter which drain you go down, they all go to the sewer! Surely once Google sell your data, or access to it, then you're in no better position than of above else were selling it? Google release it into the wild, presumably, just like other companies do.

moretai 9y ago

So sad it has come to this.

lucaspottersky 9y ago

besides everything else mentioned before, i feel like this is a double-sword situation. centralizing every aspect of your life into 1 company gives them a much more refined picture about yourself than if your info were scattared around with other companies.