Levi443 (
wab...@gmail.com) writes:
> Thank you. A helpful post, for sure. !! Re mobile-devices I certainly wa=
> s aware some settings, some options are no longer available. Had not gotte=
> n so far as to tnk about privacy -- aha!
>
> I will not anytime soon do anything re NG profile. But!: My thot would hav=
> e been pic and then my locale of origin. That being the north-half of Indi=
> ana, a geographical/cultural region. I didn't understand about the linking=
> ; I certainly would not want my fb acct associated with any other site I'm =
> on. I mean any site w any other site
>
> I saw an article today. In the major New York Times -- about a conference =
> re privacy. Quarrels there/name-calling. Advertizers who are against a "d=
> o not track" button being put on Explorer and Firefox browsers, easily visi=
> ble. Others at the confc -- for example a chap who used to work for the O_ =
> bama govt in an office for privacy -- are saying I think, pay attention to =
> the polls. And allow this as a prominent setting/option if a majority wish=
> es it.
>
> What was discussed at the conference may not, per se, be so exciting. But =
> it indicates, maybe, a growing movement..pertaining to the way some of pref=
> er not to be looked up so easily.
>
> Here's something I noticed yesterday re Linked`In.
> For one thing one can put-cursor near, after logging in, one's name in uppe=
> r right corner of screen -- and a little dropdown appears. "Settings" or "=
> Acct" is there. Next, 'Cancel My [damn! -ed,lol] Account.' ` ` ` =
> Linked`In lists for me a few dozen ppl I might know and whom I possibly wa=
> nt to link with. I do know 1/5 of those ppl. Some vaguely, 3 at least who =
> have messed over friends of mine, and 1 (one) a nice person.
>
> One is head of a department which concerns street traffic. I wrote him a l=
> etter once. He replied insultingly. Now Linked'In somehow.... WTF My ma=
> in support person (library, IT help-desk job) is quitting his gmail, says =
> he stays away from that company when possible. /As I've been doing since M=
> arch'12. At library i still use 'giggle,' because i am major familiar wit=
> h it. But at home my tablet has a fixed IP address, i think w some certain=
> ty -- and AltaVista i use. Or Bing or AOL search engines.
>
> Prob is, giggle.. seems/ loans its info to ef B eye ( US equivalent to M=
> ou_nties. Am strong member of a certain para-parano/id peace move_ment. A=
> s in being in-filtrated. Big Brother plain and simple.
>
> But then since my data plan is with Verizon.. and since Verizon and giggle=
> are totally tied together. <sigh> Can't get get away from giggle com=
> pletely.
If you do giggle without being logged in any account, then there is no
following unless you have a (more traditio0nal) comemrcial bug, I read.
On tablet, whatever I google i am sure is tracked because dang tablet
keeps all accounts joined. Therefore all thatw as private on pc now is not
one bit due to tablet.
But on pc, so long as not logged in any account, can giggle.
As for their privacy options, no matter who, i am starting to believe that
the mroe you click on them, just like for viris, the more you elt them
know the account is active, if yet there is no other way.
Therefore I dio not use fb to exchange anymore.
Because if all I do is set priovate, the tablet unprivates it *costantly*,
and besides, whoever emails me that is not private feeds them my info,
just like anyone optiong for any application on FB is cionditionally
offering them all their 'friends list and info'. I always rtefused because
of that, if some aps (maybe 2) I had applid to before it became that way
and never had any such thing to do to use them *at the tme*. But the
problem is, they later turn on you, pretty much all of them.
As well, I read an article that saud that giggle paid to get any friend
list that was over 300. Scary:(
Because even if I woudl chose people that woudl only have less than 20
friends, say, they might have a friend who has a friend that has a friend
that has 300 + names. So whoever does not select total privacy -keeping on
their toes because it is very often modified without warning or proper
warning in advance- is then ending up not respecting priovacy of others
just for using those things.
As for giggle, it offered to make public all the posts, prvate or not,
that people wrote, through their search engine. Not ,offeed'' but
consequence I read that coems with their new ways.
On my ya who account, there is now a ya who bar for giggle belonging to Ya
who, workign in conjuntion with giggle.
If i use that one, when logged into account, then know it is tracking. I
then try and keep to non political and borign stuff, AND type in the Ya
who bar 'giggle' dox come, inn hope that all that then can be tracked is
the thing keyed in ya who giggle bar. It then will open the real giggle,
and there i thendo my search, again not very high risk of personal info
gathered by those.
However, I have a problem with their profile: in past, some friends did
theirs and that linked all their friedns....I then am linked tot hem and
their searches as well, if youw ant, where say a securoty check woudl come
over, I might be declare lord knows what for someoen's friend's friend's
friend's friend's list having typed some search or written about Godzilla
who might get vindictive for seing that associated with my name when I
have nothign to do with odzilla or whastever ele anyoen else in friends'
friends' friends friedns write, post or search.
In the end, I hope BBro will end up tripping in the long rope it gives
itself by creating loops of friends' friends' and fries liek those old pc
in initial Star Trek episodes:).
Would serve them well.
Incidentally, I wondered if i coudl ave accidentally messed up gigle way
back when it was shut down a few days. Without meanign to, I mean. After
getting int he giggle place, I typed giggle dog come again, not realizing
I had already typed it, so I made it search its own self, I guess.
I tried it later to see, but all went okay. But that time all froze, and
next thign i knew it had 'crashed'.
The thigns computer dumb living-proof like me can imagine they do by
goofing a search:)