I don't think you browse like I do
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I don't think you browse like I do
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Re: I don't think you browse like I do
#2Actually I browse a lot like this. So there.
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#3I've found that there are times that some of those "features" can make browsing slightly more efficient. Cookies, cache, history, etc. have all come in handy at times. I have my chrome setup with the standard privacy settings, and then have my FireFox setup in full blown stealth mode. ...I then choose which browser I use based on whether I'm looking for speed and efficiency or anonymity and security.
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#4This just really doesn't bother me, Google knows some stuff about me due to what I have told them and machine learning, they use it primarily to show me ads they think will convert better. This makes Google more money, the advertiser more money and makes it much more likely that the ads will actually be useful to me, pretty much win win win.
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#5This reminds me of the old days where people would encrypt all their emails, no matter how mundane, with blowfish. I'm pretty sure there must be some sort of inverse relationship between the effort you put in to hiding your comms activity and the amount of stuff you actually need to hide.
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#6I browse pretty much like this as well. I log into incognito mode for Facebook and Gmail, and everything else in regular mode.
Incidentally, I also have about 50 separate email accounts that I use to log into various services. This helped me greatly when my Stratfor and my ps3 accounts were compromised, I didn't have to worry that a particularly important email address was at risk, so I just ditched them.
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#7I don't browse like this at all, I really couldn't give two shits on if Google knows I like "Computers & Electronics - Programming".
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#8This just really doesn't bother me, Google knows some stuff about me due to what I have told them and machine learning, they use it primarily to show me ads they think will convert better. This makes Google more money, the advertiser more money and makes it much more likely that the ads will actually be useful to me, pretty much win win win.
I don't think the problem is what do they actually do with all those data, but what could happen with it. You can't be sure that in few years, they will use data for something else that ads, something that you're not agree, but meanwhile data are collected. You can't be sure what could happen with Google's data in 5 or 10 years. Sold ? After all, Google is a company, here to make money. Or even some weird law, allow government accessing those data, to track terrorism profile. Ok, maybe it's unlikely, but you can't be sure. What I'm sure of is that loads of data worths loads of money.
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#9I've disabled 3rd party cookies and opted out of web history. So it has nothing to show.
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#10i suspect quite a few people do browse this way.. i do much of the same things (minus last pass, i still use keepass copy/paste).