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It's not resolve. It's experience. At a young age, you think through short timelines. Crises don't happen. At an old age, once you've been through a few crises,
by murgindrag 6y ago
It's not resolve. It's experience. At a young age, you think through short timelines. Crises don't happen. At an old age, once you've been through a few crises, wars, pandemics, law suits, and whatnot, you start calculating expected outcomes a bit differently.
I use DuckDuckGo not out of resolve, but because I used the Internet in the nineties, and saw how data I put out then came back in some cases a decade or two later in counter-intuitive ways.
- fsflover 6y agoI am curious to know more about such experiences.
- murgindrag 6y ago1) Interacting in online forums, pre-search engine, where such discussions where considered more-or-less ephemeral, and only available to a closed group of "Internet users" wasn't super-public. All of that is now archived and indexed. If you search for me, you'll find it. 2) Giving my data to super-credible companies, pre-spam. Wouldn't you know it? A few went out of business, and my data was neatly packaged up and resold to the highest bidder. One was an enterprise database company. 3) Personal web page ended up on archive.org, before anyone really knew others were grabbing/indexing/archiving things. It had more of the feel of your front yard. Yes, someone could take a photo, but it wasn't common. 4) The whole Yahoo thing. My emails become property of some data broker who now mines them for marketing and sales. I obviously won't talk about more personal ones. And no one will talk about litigations. But those sorts of things happen too. The things I worry about now are the really sophisticated fingerprinting mechanisms, where your typing patterns, your vocabulary, your linguistic quirks, etc. become biometric identifiers. I'm not sure how all that data will be archived, integrated, and combined 25 years from now. History suggests Google won't be Google forever, though. Oh, and let's not forget what happened with data, Jewish people, WWII, and Germany. That's beyond my timescale, but these things happen.
- fsflover 6y agoThank you, added to favorites to show to skeptics.
- murgindrag 6y agoIt sounds like you're keeping a list. What's on your list so far?
- fsflover 6y agoYou can look at anyone's favorites list here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=USERNAME&comments=t https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=USERNAME&comments=... (replace USERNAME with the actual name of the user). For my username it is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=fsflover&comments=t https://news.ycombinator.com/favorites?id=fsflover&comments=...
- oefnak 6y ago> history shows Google won't be Google forever Hmmm, that one got to me.
- ntoshev 6y agoYou should be able to take your personal webpage off archive.org if you don't want it there. I think the mechanism is via the current robots.txt file.