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The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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I looked at the "Google" page (https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things.

(1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols

(2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity

Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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I looked at the "Google" page ( https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2 ) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things. (1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols (2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

When a company gets so big that it doesn’t have to listen to customer complaint, it’s time to go.

I had a great car repair shop with awesome care for customer. Gave you special care and nice deals. Well, because of great reviews they grew very much, rebuilt the shop and hired a lot of staff. The culture that made them successful was forgotten, the CEO had no insight in the employees so the experience as a customer deteriorated, hence left.

Lesson: don’t grow so fast that you forget what built your company in the first place.

Examples: Google, Facebook, etc.

Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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The website knows more about me than I do! I can't remember the last time I logged in to Disqus or Blogger but apparently I'm logged in. An app that notifies you the services you're currently logged in to, and helping you log out immediately, would be a good idea.

Containers on Firefox do this type of isolation without making you play login whackamole. Each website you define gets its own little sandbox with no access to other sandboxed cookies, unless you permit it.

Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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I watched half of it... but began noticing the frequent references to how only 'conservative' views are suppressed. And then there were a bunch of Tucker Carlson snippets and then realized something wasn't (no pun intended) 'right'. Looks like M.A. Taylor, from his IMDB page is hyper conservative anti-obama/clinton political hack. Sure, some of what the film talks about - how google and facebook - can nudge peoples opinions and view of the world is true.. But it is creepy that he has snippets in there projecting them as liberal anti-conservatives hipster organizations. Come on - 2016 would've turned out very different if facebook was really suppressing conservative content at the scale this film is talking about.

Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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I looked at the "Google" page ( https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2 ) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things. (1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols (2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

FB has Activity Log, visible only to you, and shows what you posted, commented, liked, tagged, shared, searched, etc. From there you can manage and delete stuff if you want, by hand.

Re: The Creepy Line: a documentary about Google, Facebook and user manipulation

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I looked at the "Google" page ( https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2 ) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things. (1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols (2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

Would this unlearn the Google's ML models from my data?

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post #18

I looked at the "Google" page ( https://www.thecreepyline.com/programs/google-v2 ) and noticed it doesn't mention a few kind of important things. (1) You can pause activity collection at https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols (2) You can delete activity here https://myactivity.google.com/delete-activity Also, does anyone know if Facebook offers interfaces like these?

FB has Activity Log, visible only to you, and shows what you posted, commented, liked, tagged, shared, searched, etc. From there you can manage and delete stuff if you want, by hand.

Does deletion of your data unlearn the models from the data?
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