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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Lol unfortunately theirs not a communication channel they don't have a finger in. Discord IMO is a bit safer than FB. Luckily for us they're not gonna throw someone in jail because "weed" came up in their messages. But if it's harder stuff an

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Wow, yeah, a completely different topic indeed.  I think the most private FB message I've sent would be an I love you.  If you've gone far beyond that?  Well, I seriously don't know what to tell ya.  I'd just like to point out though that if you're

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Just because google and amazon collect data doesn't mean that everything's ok and data can't be used with malicious intent. I really don't have a problem with personalized search results and ads on google and youtube, facebook showing me shit it thinks

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Just because google and amazon collect data doesn't mean that everything's ok and data can't be used with malicious intent. I really don't have a problem with personalized search results and ads on google and youtube, facebook showing me shit it thinks

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The problem is that, well, this is the internet.  It's not your private home.  You're not locked behind closed doors anymore.  This is why I always tell people that when you hit send or submit or OK or anything that counts as acknowledgement of consent

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance For most people who are against this, I think it's mostly the thought that counts. They are of the opinion that the same privacy they have in physical life should be taken for granted on the internet. If it isn't, they throw a sissy fit. URL: https

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance That's my point, it's just computers analysing your data, not humans. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/527047/#p527047 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance @37 this is precisely why large tech companies with big data sets use algorithms to search all this data and personalise what you see, or rather, what you're allowed to see. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/527021/#p527021 -- Audiogames

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Sorry if this poast makes me look stupid, but seriously, amazon or google are collecting your data, who cares?There are at least 1 million people using amazon and google products. Imagine how many staff you'd need to look through all that data. No matter

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance aint that the truth. Most people don't care about you, or there costumers, just money and surviving another year with their stock somewhere decent. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526875/#p526875 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Its not just amazon that dnes this, or google? Have hey Siri enabled? Anyone? There, that's one more that does this. Voicecontrol is another. I could give a whole lot of examples, but will stop there. However; experience has taught me this; the people

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance People think I'm weird because I don't always have my face buried in my phone on IG and Snapchat. Recording every fucking moment they think might get them approval from everyone else. It's stupid. I'm almost 20 years old and yet I feel like an old man. I

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Just to say again I downloaded these podcasts/radio shows a long time ago because I was a fan and like to keep stuff on an external HDD. I called them podcasts, but a lot of them are just recordings of the entire radio show that have been file-shared

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I personally am mostly fine with Amazon and Google collecting my data. I get better search results that way. Being careful with privacy stuff is fine, but I think too much paranoia doesn't help either. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/526054

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance jack wrote:And that's why I always have the audible alerts on on my home speaker, so I know when it misfires and may record a few seconds of not-for-Google clippage.Hate to break it to you but even that won't help. These devices work by constantly

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance And that's why I always have the audible alerts on on my home speaker, so I know when it misfires and may record a few seconds of not-for-Google clippage.Also, as far as China is concerned, they don't even need the super-advanced technology for the facial

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I think for most people it's not a question of corporate control, but government control. Tech and software companies don't run the risk of actively undermining or circumventing your rights as a person, they just want more money. If mining your data makes

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I think for most people it's not a question of corporate control, but government control. Tech and software companies don't run the risk of actively undermining or circumventing your rights as a person, they just want more money. If mining your data makes

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Anyway...  I think I satirically overdid 14, but the point still stands.  Data collection has been a thing since the dawn of time; the difference now is in how it is collected and how it is shared and even who it is shared with.  That techniques have

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Camlorn wrote:Okay, look, guys.  It costs a ridiculous amount of money to do speech recognition at scale reliably, and even when they do it can't reliably detect what you're saying when you speak clearly in a quiet room to your Google Home or whatever

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance No, intelligence agencies have virtually carte blanche to do what they want, so if anyone was going to do this, it'd be a state intelligence agency. If the ability to scrape fully over a system did exist, thenI'd put good money on the NSA/CIA/KGB/GCHQ

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance What's more, podcasts are not immune to cross-tracking. THe metadata is right there inside every rss feed. Even if the podcast doesn't visibly show the feed when you are listening, i.e. you are listening or downloading straight from the website. In which

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Okay, look, guys.  It costs a ridiculous amount of money to do speech recognition at scale reliably, and even when they do it can't reliably detect what you're saying when you speak clearly in a quiet room to your Google Home or whatever.  And we can

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance And that's why you should switch to linux.I'm sorry that i sayd that cause i'l probably get alot of fuck you's, but i mean it.I dont say linux is completely unhackable untrackable FBI/CIA/NSA/AGforum protected, but it atleast is less intrusive.Ofcourse

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Youtube does go through your browsing history, as does any other site nowadays so it could have seen the site you visited to download the podcast. Many podcasts do have summary information included so if they wrote about these songs in their show notes

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance No. You are not the only one. I dont like other websites tracking me. Thats why I have all my extantions installed. Google chrome for life. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525912/#p525912 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance am I the only one who accepts that google knows everything about me? I mean, that's the price I pay for convenience I guess... URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525911/#p525911 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I'd just like to bring one fact to the table. The big tech companies do exchange data and/or services on a certain level. Did you know that apple receives a lot of money from google so they make google the default safari search engine? URL: https

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I hate chrome. Firstly it's owned by Google and Google collects all kinds of data. Yeah I get that's ironic I say that because I use windows 10, however I use LTSC and strip the hell out of it. Secondly it loves to smother your RAM. I know

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I hate chrome. Firstly it's owned by Google and Google collects all kinds of data. Yeah I get that's ironic I say that because I use windows 10, however I use LTSC and strip the hell out of it. Firefox is just better anyways. I still have Chrome for some

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I hate chrome. Firstly it's owned by Google and Google collects all kinds of data. Yeah I get that's ironic I say that because I use windows 10, however I use LTSC and strip the hell out of it. Firefox is just better anyways. I still have Chrome for some

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The thing I do. I install a bunch of privacy extantions for chrome. And I use a VPN. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525850/#p525850 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance @14 Dude, stop. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525834/#p525834 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance @11. What is that suppose to mean? read post #10 again. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525833/#p525833 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Well now!  This is a refreshing thread?  Let's see here...My microwave quit working at 10 minutes though I set it for 15; do you think Hamilton Beach secretly knew I'd get angry if it did?  I mean, I've cooked stuff for 15 minutes before... Surely it has

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance It could be someone, somewhere, having an app open on the phone such as fb or instagram that actually did get caught taking control of your camera persistently while the app is open, which Google themselves have disallowed in android 12 (covert persistent

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Definitely not gonna just chalk this up to coincidence here, that's definitely weird. This doesn't happen to me too often but sometimes it does and it weirds me out for a few seconds. I could be talking to someone about something and get a youtube video

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance That was pretty bonkers. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525793/#p525793 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance @9You should learn about how probability works, and confirmation bias, and things like that.  If I want to find a coincidence that's as bad as this one, I could manage to do so at least once a week, possibly as much as once a day.It is literally

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and I don't think were particularly big hits back then never

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and I don't think were particularly big hits back then never

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and I don't think were particularly big hits back then never

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and weren't massive back then never mind now. I've had

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and were hardly massive back then never mind now. I've had

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and were hardly massive back then never mind now. I've had

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and were hardly massive back then never mind now. I've had

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and were hardly massive back then never mind now. I've had

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance The podcast is from an old radio show. I downloaded them years ago. The two songs were Rip it Up by Orange Juice, and She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby. Both of these are from the 80s, and were hardly massive back then never mind now. I've had

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Hi.I tried Brave today and am just used to Firefox.Braves site says it's faster but I don't notice it so am sticking with Firefox. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525765/#p525765 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I've tried brave. It actually seems really cool, and i may switch to it someday. But you have to remember, even if you use brave you are not totally safe. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525761/#p525761 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance reason number 451321 people should be using Brave. Cross-tracking disabled. Mozilla-approved. Chromium-based, so it's just as accesible as Chrome.https://brave.com/jac065 URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525755/#p525755 -- Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance @camlorn, That makes more sense. I haven't thought about it like that but I've hardly thought about this much at all. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525741/#p525741 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance No. You're being paranoid. Alternatively Youtube noticed that you downloaded that podcast somehow because lots of web sites send enough tracking information to Google for them to know that, then went "other people who saw this podcast

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance I don't get the same behaviour with Foobar, but I really don't know what's at fault here. It's not like Windows 10 is known for being privacy centric. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525727/#p525727 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list

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Re: Creepy Windows 10 surveillance Why do you think it's windows10? it might have been vlc as well. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/525726/#p525726 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin

Creepy Windows 10 surveillance

Creepy Windows 10 surveillance So I was playing a podcast on VLC player, and these two guys were talking about some song by a band I'd never heard of, and later on I noticed that exact same song showing up in my youtube recommends . I listened to another podcast, and the two guys again