Google tracking

[N. Pappagiorgio]

@davidallen ,@Alpha Poke and others, take a look at the video and lettuce discuss. I’m looking to get smarter about this sort of thing.

I’m really interested in knowing if there is a way to block transmitting my location even though I don’t plan on robbing a bank in the next two weeks.

Video is short.

 

[wyomingosualum]

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@davidallen ,@Alpha Poke and others, take a look at the video and lettuce discuss. I’m looking to get smarter about this sort of thing.

I’m really interested in knowing if there is a way to block transmitting my location even though I don’t plan on robbing a bank in the next two weeks.

Video is short.

Hide your phone in the library around the corner. Rob your bank. Go back to library and retrieve your phone. Enjoy your new spending money, you’ve got your alibi now.

 

[Alpha Poke]

Try mentioning a product you haven't searched for in a phone conversation and look for it in your ad stream.

 

[poke2001]

Try mentioning a product you haven't searched for in a phone conversation and look for it in your ad stream.

Yeh, this freaks me the **** out.

 

[Rdcldad]

Yeh, this freaks me the **** out.

it’s all going south brudda

 

[CBradSmith]

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@davidallen ,@Alpha Poke and others, take a look at the video and lettuce discuss. I’m looking to get smarter about this sort of thing.

I’m really interested in knowing if there is a way to block transmitting my location even though I don’t plan on robbing a bank in the next two weeks.

Video is short.

That's quite extensive.

 

[aix_xpert]

I use anonymous browsing on my phone. I don't think it blocks google from collecting the info since its an android device, but it does limit some of the sharing and cookie usage from other 3rd parties. I also turn off location tracking unless I'm using my phone for directions.

 

[Alpha Poke]

WalMart was one of the first corporations to start collecting data. They were driving around in your neighborhood in trucks pinging products in your house decades ago.

 

[CowboyJD]

WalMart was one of the first corporations to start collecting data. They were driving around in your neighborhood in trucks pinging products in your house decades ago.

The “loyalty cards” and branded debit cards are all about data collection from their shoppers as well.

 

[Alpha Poke]

For those with the smart, laser scanning, Roomba...your house (floor plan) has been mapped.

 

[Alpha Poke]

The “loyalty cards” and branded debit cards are all about data collection from their shoppers as well.

Yeah, go buy something out of the ordinary on your next trip to CVS and see how your eCoupons from said location changes on the next batch.

 

[aix_xpert]

For those with the smart, laser scanning, Roomba...your house (floor plan) has been mapped.

Yep. But that's why I don't connect it to my wifi. So it may map the house but its not allowed to upload it.

 

[Alpha Poke]

Yep. But that's why I don't connect it to my wifi. So it may map the house but its not allowed to upload it.

I put up fake walls made of cardboard and move them for every use. They think my house has 287 rooms.

 

[Rdcldad]

I put up fake walls made of cardboard and move them for every use. They think my house has 287 rooms.

they got algorithms to know when you pull that one

 

[Alpha Poke]

I’d like to slap the geek that algorithm’d that.

 

[Rdcldad]

ain’t bout spittin beechnut in that dudes eye anymore

we’ve come to bitch slapping geeks

 

[davidallen]

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@davidallen ,@Alpha Poke and others, take a look at the video and lettuce discuss. I’m looking to get smarter about this sort of thing.

I’m really interested in knowing if there is a way to block transmitting my location even though I don’t plan on robbing a bank in the next two weeks.

Video is short.

Sure lettuce. But before we do, can you tell how the Pulled Pork was at Hauula today?

 

[davidallen]

I’d like to slap the geek that algorithm’d that.

Your welcome.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

Sure lettuce. But before we do, can you tell how the Pulled Pork was at Hauula today?

I wasn’t there today but I can guarantee you it was tremendous.

 

[davidallen]

Serious points to make:

• The trade off here is function for access. Android is open source. Meaning it is free if you want/can modify it and install vanilla Android and be tracking free.
• This means no Play Store. Consider F-Droid instead, you will be able to get open source alternatives.
• Consider though that you need to manage security yourself. That and you will find tons of gaps that cant really be met without Google or others. You get what you pay (or trade information) for.

In the end, the loss of privacy is IMO a small price to pay for a rich ecosystem of products and services.

 

[davidallen]

I wasn’t there today but I can guarantee you it was tremendous.

Damn, need to debug that... I joke, I joke.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

Damn, need to debug that... I joke, I joke.

On a completely unrelated note (well not completely unrelated), one of my kids just accepted a job At Google. He’s conservative so he probably won’t last long.

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

In the end, the loss of privacy is IMO a small price to pay for a rich ecosystem of products and services.

Fair point but is there anything we can do to reduce our footprint besides throwing our smart stuff away?

 

[Rdcldad]

Serious points to make:

• The trade off here is function for access. Android is open source. Meaning it is free if you want/can modify it and install vanilla Android and be tracking free.
• This means no Play Store. Consider F-Droid instead, you will be able to get open source alternatives.
• Consider though that you need to manage security yourself. That and you will find tons of gaps that cant really be met without Google or others. You get what you pay (or trade information) for.

In the end, the loss of privacy is IMO a small price to pay for a rich ecosystem of products and services.

rich ecosystem?

wtf???

who taught you how to talk like that and do people laugh when you do?

 

[Alpha Poke]

The neighbor kid that’s in his 3rd yr at Brown has been on my payroll since he was in the 8th grade. And the other neighbor kid is in grad school at UT working on the driverless intersection.

I need to remind myself, these are the geeks of today. Good lads that like a few hundred here and there.

 

[Rdcldad]

could they show me how to download pics off a mac to a thumb drive?

 

[Alpha Poke]

could they show me how to download pics off a mac to a thumb drive?

Just give me a name.

 

[Rdcldad]

allow me to clarify

it’s remedial my mac to my thumb drive

not awan brothers wasserman shultz type stuff

 

[JimmyBob]

allow me to clarify

it’s remedial my mac to my thumb drive

not awan brothers wasserman shultz type stuff

Any tri-delts?

 

[CowboyJD]

could they show me how to download pics off a mac to a thumb drive?

Or voice recordings off my IPhone to my PC.

 

[davidallen]

On a completely unrelated note (well not completely unrelated), one of my kids just accepted a job At Google. He’s conservative so he probably won’t last long.

Which PA?

 

[davidallen]

Fair point but is there anything we can do to reduce our footprint besides throwing our smart stuff away?

Not really... We just had a portfolio company exit that has tech that works at the transport layer to reconstruct your click stream on demand. They sold to another ad tech firm (not Google) that is integrating it into a solution to give similar tracking features on iOS devices and those who are running fully private apps. They creeped me out, which is saying a lot.

Disclaimer: I did not work with them at all... arms length.

In the end, if you are online consider yourself public.

 

[davidallen]

rich ecosystem?

wtf???

who taught you how to talk like that and do people laugh when you do?

Nope, I teach others and customers pay $500 an hour for it... weird huh?

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

Which PA?

Don’t know what that means. He will be in cloud in Austin.

 

[Rdcldad]

Nope, I teach others and customers pay $500 an hour for it... weird huh?

so what’s a good corporate buzzword worth?

in another lifetime this peckerhead food salesman told me they were having some “challenges” in getting my order delivered

first time i’d heard that “challenges” bullshit
it did not go well

 

[CowboyJD]

so what’s a good corporate buzzword worth?

in another lifetime this peckerhead food salesman told me they were having some “challenges” in getting my order delivered

first time i’d heard that “challenges” bullshit
it did not go well

My go tos in government service lawyer speak are presently....”problematic”, “less than ideal”, and “regrettable though ultimately manageable”.

 

[davidallen]

Don’t know what that means. He will be in cloud in Austin.

Product Area... Sales, engineering, ops? @The Duke would've been a good one to show him the ropes but he went to the dark side....

 

[N. Pappagiorgio]

Product Area... Sales, engineering, ops? @The Duke would've been a good one to show him the ropes but he went to the dark side....

Recruiting

 

[Alpha Poke]

My go tos in government service lawyer speak are presently....”problematic”, “less than ideal”, and “regrettable though ultimately manageable”.

These are universal, and timeless.

 

[davidallen]

Recruiting

He needs to get busy!