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Cute idea, but sharing intimate details about your mental state with Google it's probably a bad idea.

account-5 5y ago
Yep, couldn't agree more, they know enough.
GuB-42 5y ago
If you are concerned by that, you can mirror it (wget -m) and run it locally. Out of the box, it will yell at you and styling will be broken, but it will be functional. The entire mirror is also smaller than most web pages nowadays: 500k and 100 files total.
sillysaurusx 5y ago
Does anyone really think that this is going to tip any scales in terms of knowledge about you? We got a new dog a few days ago. I immediately -- almost instantly -- noticed that tiktok started showing me new-dog videos. Things like "How to kennel train your dog" and so on. I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data. My point is, in an era when algorithms know the instant you get a new puppy, or the month you get pregnant, or the week you get fired, or have an extremely accurate picture of just how much disposable income you have... ... are you really going to care about sharing whether you feel like shit? That's the hill we pick? :)
- sva_ 5y ago
  > I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data. I think the answer is probably more mundane: someone an edge away from you on their social graph looked at dog videos, and they correlated it based on that.
newswasboring 5y ago
I'm not a web developer or maybe just dumb, but how is this info being shared to Google?
- praveen9920 5y ago
  Google analytics.!
  - newswasboring 5y ago
    Can you explain a little more? Does google analytics also track each clicked page uniquely for a user? How do you know that google analytics is turned on? I didn't see any indication of it.
  - HWR_14 5y ago
    Isn't blocking GoogleAnalystics with a plug in a far better solution than censoring what websites you go to?

Yep, couldn't agree more, they know enough.

If you are concerned by that, you can mirror it (wget -m) and run it locally. Out of the box, it will yell at you and styling will be broken, but it will be functional. The entire mirror is also smaller than most web pages nowadays: 500k and 100 files total.

sillysaurusx 5y ago

Does anyone really think that this is going to tip any scales in terms of knowledge about you? We got a new dog a few days ago. I immediately -- almost instantly -- noticed that tiktok started showing me new-dog videos. Things like "How to kennel train your dog" and so on. I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data. My point is, in an era when algorithms know the instant you get a new puppy, or the month you get pregnant, or the week you get fired, or have an extremely accurate picture of just how much disposable income you have... ... are you really going to care about sharing whether you feel like shit? That's the hill we pick? :)

sva_ 5y ago
> I was very confused, and reasoned that the most likely explanation was that I had subconsciously been liking dog videos in our run-up to getting a puppy. But then it occurred to me that it's quite realistic to think an ML model got me: I'm logged into tiktok via Google as myself; there's certainly data sharing agreements in place; my purchasing habits are no doubt tracked by multiple vectors; and I know from experience that ML can infer some surprising things from sparse data. I think the answer is probably more mundane: someone an edge away from you on their social graph looked at dog videos, and they correlated it based on that.

newswasboring 5y ago

I'm not a web developer or maybe just dumb, but how is this info being shared to Google?

praveen9920 5y ago
Google analytics.!
- newswasboring 5y ago
  Can you explain a little more? Does google analytics also track each clicked page uniquely for a user? How do you know that google analytics is turned on? I didn't see any indication of it.
- HWR_14 5y ago
  Isn't blocking GoogleAnalystics with a plug in a far better solution than censoring what websites you go to?