Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Greg Keogh
I don't want to sound like some sort of alarmist new-age libertarian fear-mongering politically correct human rights activist but ... Advertising is evil, it's mass orchestrated propaganda, most of it riddled with lies and deception. It attempts to manipulate and change you, slowly and cruelly, con

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread David Connors
Or: 7) Sit on your arse in front of the TV watching endless shit for dickheads ads for stuff you DON'T want and revel in your new freedom. I must be the only person here who thinks that targeted ads are a good idea. Endless ads for boat add-ons and things I can BBQ pork with ... Mmmm pork. Imagin

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
5.) Delete all social media accounts. 6.) Stop using any device that's connected. I forget the name of it but there is a security rating (class C? I forget) where no connectivity, no keyboard no monitor and no external drives are required. Or something along those lines. 7.) Become Amish. On Tue,

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stuart Kinnear
There is a few things you can do. 1) use DuckDuckGo as your search provider 2) remove all your history from Chrome (and the other browsers for that matter). - I got a shock and found over 155000 entries in my history dating back some years 3) only run your browser in private mode For Chrome:

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Greg Keogh
> > So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) > It's simple .. the ATO doesn't yet have access to the databases of Google and the NSA.

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
There lays the reason why I'm not worried about people (and computers) collecting my information. Most of it will be lost. ;) Sent from my iPhone On 22 Dec 2014, at 5:54 pm, Greg Harris wrote: because they know everything about you but their computer system are so @#$%^&* that they can not help

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Greg Harris
because they know everything about you but their computer system are so @#$%^&* that they can not help any of their staff to do their job! (does this feel like Friday?) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Stephen Price wrote: > So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) > > On

Re: [OT] Unbelievable ad tracking

2014-12-22 Thread Stephen Price
So how come when I ring up the ATO they don't know who I am? ;) On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 2:54 PM, Greg Keogh wrote: > > You can lodge a BAS with the ATO using it. (You can’t with IE 11)… >> > > That means that Google and the NSA now have full access to our tax > records ;-) >