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Where’s a startup selling Kaczynski shacks when you need one?
So there's a record of everyone they sell a shack to? Come on. You gotta build your own Kaczynski shack. Amateur hour over here.
Just don't use Google?! Seriously, it's not that hard to remove google from your personal life. If your job makes you use google, just view your email using the web app or use an email client on phone.
Sure, but Google is just one way to collect that data. You'd have to get rid of your cell phone, or at least not carry it around. Better make sure your car doesn't have OnStar or any other similar tracking device built in too. Once facial recognition goes mainstream, you're pretty hosed regardless of what you do.
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I recently set my google location history to auto-delete. At first I wanted to keep it recording my location history forever because "just in case" I needed to know where I was for something that was extremely unimportant. Overall, I've looked at it only handful of times over the many years it has been running so in the end it really helps Google more than it helps me. I might even just turn it off completely. I'm sl…
I love Google Location History. If you're trying to make a point to someone about how much of a problem data collection, use, abuse, etc, is - link them to the place they can view their own history. It's even more fun if you're with them and can watch the expression of utter horror form as they realize just what, exactly, literally everywhere they've been can tell someone else about them. "Hey, isn't that the kink cl…
Even on my phone when I search for "tires in " it assumes I mean a city in the east coast of the US. Maps/Waze are only marginally better, showing me results 170+ miles from my current location, generally.
I use trackmenot and ad nauseam plugins on my main computer, so my ads are always 100% irrelevant - if I see them at all. Ad nauseam clicks every ad it sees, and stores the banner. It tries to track how many dollars of ad spend its wasted on your behalf, too. I'm somewhere north of $17k at this point lifetime clicks.
I know I'm not winning this fight but I can make it more hilarious for me in the meantime.
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I recently set my google location history to auto-delete. At first I wanted to keep it recording my location history forever because "just in case" I needed to know where I was for something that was extremely unimportant. Overall, I've looked at it only handful of times over the many years it has been running so in the end it really helps Google more than it helps me. I might even just turn it off completely. I'm sl…
I love Google Location History. If you're trying to make a point to someone about how much of a problem data collection, use, abuse, etc, is - link them to the place they can view their own history. It's even more fun if you're with them and can watch the expression of utter horror form as they realize just what, exactly, literally everywhere they've been can tell someone else about them. "Hey, isn't that the kink cl…
4 layers of Aluminium foil :-)) https://youtu.be/tVFJJEiJ1C0
During school some friends and I lived above our landlord who prohibited Wi-Fi, saying it gave him headaches. One time I accidentally used the Wi-Fi adapter for my Xbox 360, and he came up a half hour later with a sniffer demanding us to shut off the source. Never figured out if it actually caused him headaches, or if he just didn't want any sources on around him. He later moved to the middle of nowhere in West Virgi…
Is there a self hosted app to track your location? I use Google maps to keep granular history so I can use it later for whatever. But if I could self host that’d be better.
Is there a self hosted app to track your location? I use Google maps to keep granular history so I can use it later for whatever. But if I could self host that’d be better.
There's https://owntracks.org/ , which has iOS and Android apps and instructions on setting up your own server. If you run NextCloud self-hosted already, there's PhoneTrack ( https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack ), which has a list of supported/suggested apps that send data back to it in a compatible format.
4 layers of Aluminium foil :-)) https://youtu.be/tVFJJEiJ1C0
During school some friends and I lived above our landlord who prohibited Wi-Fi, saying it gave him headaches. One time I accidentally used the Wi-Fi adapter for my Xbox 360, and he came up a half hour later with a sniffer demanding us to shut off the source. Never figured out if it actually caused him headaches, or if he just didn't want any sources on around him. He later moved to the middle of nowhere in West Virgi…
The same area is also popular with pot growers so you get an interesting mix of hippies, potheads, preppers, and people like your landlord.
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