Message from @Undead Mockingbird
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Actually, you make a good point.
Also, I keep telling people that they shouldn't stop using Google, etc. if they really want to boycott them.
Keep using the free portion and never hand them a dime, i.e. block all ads, do not track.
But DO use their free services, code, libraries, apps, and so forth. It's like the difference between boycotting a restaurant by no longer eating there and to keep going there for the free bread sticks - but then just leaving.
hmm i can see that as a tactic, the problem is they get access to your information
Styxhexenhammer says that's what he does with Facebook, just link people to his non-soylent social media presences.
from what you do store on them
and then they can still sell that
Right. That's why I said you should have adblockers and tracking disablers.
But, you should probably have those anyway.
if you are logged in to use a google service
they know its you
no matter which blocking software you use
which is why you dont log into social media while doing illegal shit behind a VPN
Anonymity is a sham unless you put a 100% effort into it
Right, but you don't necessarily have to give them your data. You make a good point, because they now require phone numbers for sign up, but you can use burner numbers.
if you log in to a session behind a VPN, they can tell its you
Some extensions even go further and mass click every add that your browser encounters, without displaying them, to mess up their analytics.
the only way i can see your method working in the end, is if you encrypt all your data before you share it with google
>not adblocking on principle
so all they have is a large uninterpretable chunk of data
The adblockers that fake clicks are hard to get updates for
@♓♏♋ Whitelist sites you want to support.
but i dont think you can do that with all the applications they provide.. like calc is literally online excel
no way to encrypt your stuff from google in that
or gmail, unles you manage to get everyone that ever mails you to play along
>not intentionall creating an entirely fake profile with fake friends and interests to mislead the data mining algorithms
Yes, there are limitations to that.
My Facebook is full of forum friends I'll never meet IRL
the problem with creating a fake profile is that they can still track habits
But, I have throwaway Google accounts just for the storage space from Google Drive, for example, or I use YouTube for streaming. I do not see what data they get from me, while I am using their bandwidth.
its not enough for a court of law, but if they notice person A and B are never online at the same time, but do do all the same things..
they can add that shit together automatically
i stoped using chrome a while ago
that shit si a spy program
Right. There have been cases in which such similar correlations have been used.
the google account i am using for this discord is my account number 200 or something lol
Anyway: What I meant is that there might be ways to still use what these companies provide for free, while avoiding to give them anything of value. That's all I'm saying.
And, of course they are trying to minimize that as far as possible.