• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Facebook (lack of) Privacy ? !

Not only that but it's been repeated four or five fucking times in this thread already.

Talk about ego. :laughing
 
Again, love the derision for the victims.

HA HA YOU'RE STUPID FOR BEING TRUSTING AND THINKING IT WOULDN'T BE QUITE THIS BAD, THAT THEY WOULDN'T GO QUITE THIS FAR YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN THEY'D LIE AND CHEAT AND STEAL.
:love


Doubt anyone knew they'd troll so far down the line to tie you to everything they can, even off-line friends and listening to your conversations.


Click on a link to see some used cars and then see used car ads all over my fb feed? Ok, I'm cool with you taking that info.

Reading my texts and targeting me with specific advertising? No, I didn't expect that.

TOO BAD YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, YOU'RE STUPID.

You sound like the people complaining about Tide Pods.

I mean, "I only want to take these naked pictures of your kid for art. I won't do anything bad. I am just an artist trying to make honest money artistically with naked kid pictures, please sign here so I can access your kid. Nothing bad will happen as a result."

Yeah, you kind of have to go afterwards, "did you fucking think that guy wasn't a creepapalooza waiting to happen?"

I am not into victim shaming, but give me a fucking break. Guys like me have been protesting since the beginning exactly what this was. The Corps weren't even really making a big secret of it, they just wrapped it in a shiny package, so people didn't want to listen about what it really was. Social Media IS the surveillance state, always has been. Business just figured out how to get people to opt in instead of letting a more obvious dictator impose it.

4-star-wars-quotes.gif


Yep, but everyone should have assumed malevolence from the start and taken precautions against the onslaught of technology that no one knew was coming.

Talked about chainsaws with someone irl and my feed was full of 'em for a few days.

I knew. :dunno

The one thing I didn't predict was facial recognition technology advancing as fast as it did. Essentially my casual use of Social Media with protection against tracking to me will be invalidated by facial recognition software pretty soon. No one is safe. The upcoming AR systems coming up will be recording where everyone is all the time through smart glasses and cross referencing that with facial recognition tools, pretty much everyone is going to be tracked all the time. :(

I have never had the conversation ads though, I have avoided those digital assistants or any devices equipped with them like the plague from the get go. Jesus fucking H Christ on a rubber crutch, how could anybody want a microphone around them that is always listening and transmitting to the open world. I have to assume when the location surveillance is totally inescapable, the softs will master lip reading to a degree where even if you avoid microphones, they will be able to pull things to throw ads at you from conversations they see you having in the background of someones field of view through their smart glasses.
 
Last edited:
Hello, you can turn off permissions for microphone and camera for any particular individual app on your phone.

And just because we can visualize a future world with absolutely zero privacy doesn't make it hypocritical for us to criticize what happened last week.
 
Hello, you can turn off permissions for microphone and camera for any particular individual app on your phone.

And just because we can visualize a future world with absolutely zero privacy doesn't make it hypocritical for us to criticize what happened last week.

So, there are overrides for most of that. So many updates will reset that kind of shit without telling you. I have been holding on to my old Smartphone for dear life, because it is one of the last technologically relevant models where you can still take the battery out. You guys know the carrier can still ping your location when your phone is "turned off," right?

It is for your own safety, you know, just in case.
 
I had turned off all that stuff on my laptop back in Jan and just the other day I checked on privacy setting again. All that shit was clicked back on.
 
I had turned off all that stuff on my laptop back in Jan and just the other day I checked on privacy setting again. All that shit was clicked back on.

You're welcome, that's just part of the "free" service ! :teeth
 
You sound like the people complaining about Tide Pods.

I mean, "I only want to take these naked pictures of your kid for art. I won't do anything bad. I am just an artist trying to make honest money artistically with naked kid pictures, please sign here so I can access your kid. Nothing bad will happen as a result."

Yeah, you kind of have to go afterwards, "did you fucking think that guy wasn't a creepapalooza waiting to happen?"

I am not into victim shaming, but give me a fucking break. Guys like me have been protesting since the beginning exactly what this was. The Corps weren't even really making a big secret of it, they just wrapped it in a shiny package, so people didn't want to listen about what it really was. Social Media IS the surveillance state, always has been. Business just figured out how to get people to opt in instead of letting a more obvious dictator impose it.

And now you're acting like everyone that goes online whores themselves out for "Likes" and swaps noodz with friends and family.
Gramma Melba down in San Diego wants to keep up with family so she deserves to have all her online records paired with her cell phone data and location beacon?
Because she's not tech savvy and slightly paranoid about a dystopian future?

To add, I've been screaming this same mantra as long as you have, typically to cries of either "You're paranoid, dude" or "Well no shit, I knew that years ago".

The one thing I didn't predict was facial recognition technology advancing as fast as it did. Essentially my casual use of Social Media with protection against tracking to me will be invalidated by facial recognition software pretty soon. No one is safe. The upcoming AR systems coming up will be recording where everyone is all the time through smart glasses and cross referencing that with facial recognition tools, pretty much everyone is going to be tracked all the time. :(

So tech advanced faster than you thought it would and brought a whole new level of privacy invasion that you weren't expecting, you say?
Crazy how your first paragraph seems to malign individuals with that exact train of thought but less tech know-how than you. :dunno


Hello, you can turn off permissions for microphone and camera for any particular individual app on your phone.

And just because we can visualize a future world with absolutely zero privacy doesn't make it hypocritical for us to criticize what happened last week.

Hello, we're in a thread about companies walking rough shod over privacy rights and laws and you tell us to simply trust them to agree to turn them off when we ask.


I have never had the conversation ads though, I have avoided those digital assistants or any devices equipped with them like the plague from the get go. Jesus fucking H Christ on a rubber crutch, how could anybody want a microphone around them that is always listening and transmitting to the open world. I have to assume when the location surveillance is totally inescapable, the softs will master lip reading to a degree where even if you avoid microphones, they will be able to pull things to throw ads at you from conversations they see you having in the background of someones field of view through their smart glasses.


I have zero apps installed on my phone and I get targeted ads from irl convos.
 
Last edited:
Experiment to see if the Bott’s are listening. Living room furniture. Couch. Sofa. Recliner. La-Z-Boy. Coffee table. Convertible sofa. Italian leather. Big screen. Home theater

Off to check Facebook.
 
And now you're acting like everyone that goes online whores themselves out for "Likes" and swaps noodz with friends and family.
Gramma Melba down in San Diego wants to keep up with family so she deserves to have all her online records paired with her cell phone data and location beacon?
Because she's not tech savvy and slightly paranoid about a dystopian future?

To add, I've been screaming this same mantra as long as you have, typically to cries of either "You're paranoid, dude" or "Well no shit, I knew that years ago".

So tech advanced faster than you thought it would and brought a whole new level of privacy invasion that you weren't expecting, you say?
Crazy how your first paragraph seems to malign individuals with that exact train of thought but less tech know-how than you. :dunno

Hello, we're in a thread about companies walking rough shod over privacy rights and laws and you tell us to simply trust them to agree to turn them off when we ask.

I have zero apps installed on my phone and I get targeted ads from irl convos.

I fault no one but myself for having less vision about it. I should have guessed better. The future belongs to those who plan for it. :dunno

You don't have an Apple phone, do you?
 
I fault no one but myself for having less vision about it. I should have guessed better. The future belongs to those who plan for it. :dunno

You don't have an Apple phone, do you?

Nah, Android's Tracker 3000.
 
Experiment to see if the Bott’s are listening. Living room furniture. Couch. Sofa. Recliner. La-Z-Boy. Coffee table. Convertible sofa. Italian leather. Big screen. Home theater

Off to check Facebook.

I said various forms of “I should buy a boat”. Or “I would like a boat” about 50 times the other day while I was sitting on the can with my phone in my pocket.

Next thing I know there is adds of yacht sales in my news feed. You would think it would be adds for bean-o.
 
I said various forms of “I should buy a boat”. Or “I would like a boat” about 50 times the other day while I was sitting on the can with my phone in my pocket.

Next thing I know there is adds of yacht sales in my news feed. You would think it would be adds for bean-o.

Now if only that boat could just show up on a trailer being pulled by a G class Mercedes and a $1,000,000 gas gift card and title to it all in your name.
 
Reddit is on the data mining bandwagon now. There was a post the other day (that's since been buried so I can't find it), where a user discovered what they were doing. Redditors are now a commodity.
 
i don't notice a whole lot of folks in my circle dropping out of facebook after the latest news. my friends don't share everything that is happening in their lives. honestly, it's been cathartic for me to share my thoughts and pics ( a lot more in the past than now ) and to see where people vacation to, where they go to get a good bite to eat. where exotic places in the world they choose to ride ... as far as mining my data to influence my thinking and voting preferences, it has not happened ... those of you who have an air of superiority, compartmentalizing people for using facebook, you need to know that some people know how to use it without allowing it to use you ... and yes, there is no such thing as privacy in the digital/electronic age but to a great extent, you do have control over your privacy by not oversharing ...
 
Last edited:
I said various forms of “I should buy a boat”. Or “I would like a boat” about 50 times the other day while I was sitting on the can with my phone in my pocket.

Next thing I know there is adds of yacht sales in my news feed. You would think it would be adds for bean-o.
Have you tried telling fart jokes?

Reddit is on the data mining bandwagon now. There was a post the other day (that's since been buried so I can't find it), where a user discovered what they were doing. Redditors are now a commodity.
Those forever alone folks will be inundated with dating site ads.
:laughing
 
Back
Top