> There's nothing preventing anyone to scrape that kind of info from public sources either. Absolutely correct, if you read my posts then you'll see that I ex

> There's nothing preventing anyone to scrape that kind of info from public sources either. Absolutely correct, if you read my posts then you'll see that I expose both myself and my ideas to quite some considerable degree. I'm under no illusion that all my attempts at blocking Google's spying will not work here. I've never had the need to hide myself on the web, rather it's that I've been forced to, or at least to try to hide parts of my private data—none of which I'm ashamed about. It's the underhanded and egregious way Google, Facebook, et all have gone about it that hurts and which I find so objectionable.