not marketing but big brother watching

[sawfly]

gleaning info from my net history and now tailoring it to what i get in the form of Google news. is maddness.

i was wondering why in hell the Kardashians had any right to show up as news when i clicked google news.

but today i clued in as i saw Google news storys about ritche bro.s auction and a story on Trimble share prices droping.
the wife watches the Kard's
god knows why?
i am always checking ritches auction and looked stuff up on trimble. this spring.

they are feeding us our own crap as news.
isn't that kinda dangerous.
only telling us the stuff we want to hear.
( we will all end up like tom)

i have noticed the news on there had gone to hell.

now i know why
it is just plain wrong and to not tell us it is being done . is beyond words

[tweety]

You're just figuring this out now?

[farmaholic]

Can you imagine the "monitoring" they could do if they wanted. And the GPS tracking with phones, they don't have to "implant" any chips, we voluntarily carry them.

I'm wrapping myself in tinfoil for sure!!

[Wheatking]

I always get a kick out of the guys complaining about the advertising on this site and others that is showing adds for feminine hygiene products, pleasure instruments and so on. Well its only showing you what you have been searching online. L.O.L

[sumdumguy]

I should send my cel phone with someone else to church on Sunday mornings.

[tweety]

farmaholic, what do you mean if the "could"?

What a naive bunch. Ever read those privacy policies on farm apps? Probably not. But they're just so darn convenient you say....

Unless you use a good VPN and have real security and anonymity on the web everything you do is carefully logged by a million servers on the web.
They track everything, its about aggregate data and farmers love giving it away. Then the next thing posted will be, my data isn't worth anything only aggregate.

Pay to give your data away as in precision farming. Didn't Monsanto pay over a billion bucks to buy a data company?

And yes i use a bag phone, believe that came up too.

There, saved the writing of 25 posts.

[sumdumguy]

Bag phone? Like back in the 60's?

[tweety]

Ya i was told i must use a bag phone because i disagreed with the lack of privacy in the privacy policy in those cloud based app for farm accounting etc.

Ya know, the one no one reads?

[sawfly]

i knew the ads were tailored to my searches , so what.
but the news ?
that is just sick.
i know we are fed only one side of a story most the time. just by the country we live in and the corporations that run the news.

i guess only CBC and pbs from now on.

[dalek]

Ha! Sawfly made a funny.

[tweety]

CBC uses it too. News first and foremost number one objective is advertising. Its not the news. Just like mcdonalds primary goal is real estate.

Using browsers like firefox, turning off location services, cookie destructors and using ad blockers with a good vpn and you'll never see any of that again.

[tweety]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-to-revamp-targeted-ads-program-after-probe-by-privacy-watchdog-1.3031190

[ado089]

The only appropriate use for the Internet is porn and gambling.

[tweety]

And youtube. and streaming movies for free. and torrents.

[hobbyfrmr]

Ado, finally, someone making sense on here!