http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/9396090/facebook-red-faced-after-google-pr-attack/
Interesting.
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Facebook and Google go toe to toe
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I've also heard that the two companies are bidding between each other, for top programmer$ & exec$.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_18051908?nclick_check=1
http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_18051908?nclick_check=1
The same GQP demanding we move on from January 6th, 2021 is still doing audits of the November 3rd, 2020 election.
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I use G mail . I absolutely hate facebook !!! I do use it sometimes , being the only way to keep in touch with a few young friends . Facebook is for the lazy , who can only write a few words about nothing , a variation from texting . Sadly we live in an age when people don't write letters anymore and are only good for brief chitchat .
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I absolutely agree.. FB is very irritating especially when people think it is their personal diary and put all the stupid status like "going for potty" taking a tea break"." and they will like and dislike almost any random comment, sob and cry and whine on the page and use it as some sink to get rid of their oral diarrhoeas. Morons .. need to know no one cares for their bullshit. Although Zynga has given some interesting games so it (fb) can be used to take a break or pass some time. Google is just marvelous.. i love it
It seems we have some under-informed Lushies here. Let me fill you in, briefly, with just a few pieces from the enormous pile of evidence that neither Google nor Facebook is to be trusted...
Facebook:
In this article by the New Yorker, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerburg is busted opining in IM conversation that people are "stupid fucks" for trusting him with their private information.
Zuckerberg has also stated that:
"if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private"
and that "privacy is no longer a 'social norm'"
Google:
Just like the iPhone, Google's Android smartphones silently store weeks' worth of your GPS location data, which can be accessed easily by police from their cruisers and which abusive men have used to locate the "secret" women's shelters at which their ex-victims are recovering.
In regard to this last, notice that both Google *and* Facebook are requiring you to give them your phone number now in order to use their services. Never mind that anyone can download the software to turn on the microphone in your cell phone and listen to you without you knowing it.
Google also now wants to connect every device in your home to your Android.
The long and short of it is that both Google and Facebook are data-collecting sites for government intelligence agencies. Neither company EVER deletes ANY piece of information that you send through their servers.
That deep, dark secret you told ONE person in an e-mail three years ago through your account? Google still has it. Everything you've ever clicked "Like" for on Facebook? Zuckerberg knows.
This information should creep you out. If it doesn't, then you aren't seeing the ways in which these powers could be abused, and you aren't aware of how often, historically, any potential abuse of power has been actualized.
Privacy matters. Be careful what you post.
Facebook:
In this article by the New Yorker, Facebook founder/CEO Mark Zuckerburg is busted opining in IM conversation that people are "stupid fucks" for trusting him with their private information.
Zuckerberg has also stated that:
"if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private"
and that "privacy is no longer a 'social norm'"
Google:
Just like the iPhone, Google's Android smartphones silently store weeks' worth of your GPS location data, which can be accessed easily by police from their cruisers and which abusive men have used to locate the "secret" women's shelters at which their ex-victims are recovering.
In regard to this last, notice that both Google *and* Facebook are requiring you to give them your phone number now in order to use their services. Never mind that anyone can download the software to turn on the microphone in your cell phone and listen to you without you knowing it.
Google also now wants to connect every device in your home to your Android.
The long and short of it is that both Google and Facebook are data-collecting sites for government intelligence agencies. Neither company EVER deletes ANY piece of information that you send through their servers.
That deep, dark secret you told ONE person in an e-mail three years ago through your account? Google still has it. Everything you've ever clicked "Like" for on Facebook? Zuckerberg knows.
This information should creep you out. If it doesn't, then you aren't seeing the ways in which these powers could be abused, and you aren't aware of how often, historically, any potential abuse of power has been actualized.
Privacy matters. Be careful what you post.
It really saddened me when Google turned evil. Just a handful of years ago they were resisting governement requests for user data -- now they're slobbin' all over Uncle Sam's knob. :P And they're trying very hard to dominate the Internet (which would ruin it).
Just a tip, if you want a good e-mail service that's fast and secure, try Lavabit. Also allows POP3/IMAP access for your e-mail client of choice.
Just a tip, if you want a good e-mail service that's fast and secure, try Lavabit. Also allows POP3/IMAP access for your e-mail client of choice.
Matriarch
Every website should respect people's rights to privacy. We will never give out anyone's information here (and it's not like we ask for much anyway other than a working email address to confirm signup), unless it's at a direct request of someone like the FBI (yes, it has happened).
I don't trust any of the bigger players. I never use my real date of birth, location, or anything when signing up on places like that.
Facebook is an enormous data mining exercise, I can't believe how much people fill in on their profiles, right down to the area they live, age, sex, likes, dislikes etc - it's a marketers dream having all that information at your fingertips, and FB know it.
The two are not really in direct competition, Google is still predominantly a search engine, although their quest for world domination has meant they've ventured into numerous other fields. Facebook is not a search engine, it's a social network. They are chalk and cheese.
Both should respect your rights to privacy, but their stances on that subject are questionnable at best.
I don't trust any of the bigger players. I never use my real date of birth, location, or anything when signing up on places like that.
Facebook is an enormous data mining exercise, I can't believe how much people fill in on their profiles, right down to the area they live, age, sex, likes, dislikes etc - it's a marketers dream having all that information at your fingertips, and FB know it.
The two are not really in direct competition, Google is still predominantly a search engine, although their quest for world domination has meant they've ventured into numerous other fields. Facebook is not a search engine, it's a social network. They are chalk and cheese.
Both should respect your rights to privacy, but their stances on that subject are questionnable at best.
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I don't trust any of the bigger players. I never use my real date of birth, location, or anything when signing up on places like that.
So glad to hear it.
Long, long ago, when I started using the Intenet -- years before I knew anything at all about politics or had privacy concerns -- I somehow intuitively knew never to do this. Only I don't even trust the smaller players... *shrug* but that's me, and I have the advantages of not running any online businesses (yet). Matriarch
I wondered why you use a proxy server to spoof your IP address, Mr Jack Sheringham, 464 W. 4th St., San Bernardino, CA 92402.
I probably used the wrong english there, I find it hard to trust any website whatsoever with my personal details, other than banks. I use internet banking regularly, but hardly ever use my credit card online. There are too many security leaks for my liking.
I probably used the wrong english there, I find it hard to trust any website whatsoever with my personal details, other than banks. I use internet banking regularly, but hardly ever use my credit card online. There are too many security leaks for my liking.
Matriarch
You're having issues posting URL's too now? 
Doesn't affect autologins, that's handled by the browser itself (and depends on cookie settings). The only downside is that Tor doesnt load Flash content (for good reason), so if someone posts up a YouTube video, I just bookmark its URL and go after it later with Tor turned off.
Me, I always log in to sites manually. But again, I have a high level of "paranoia". ; )
Me, I always log in to sites manually. But again, I have a high level of "paranoia". ; )
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Privacy matters. Be careful what you post.
Facebook is evil. Grrr. But I do have a profile, filled with the bare minimum. And I don't own a smartphone. The phone company tried to push one on me and I told them I don't need all of the features. I'm overwhelmed by the Android market and all of that, but of course the seller has a phone like the one they are marketing.
No, no Androids, Blackberrys or GPS technology is going in my phone. The next step is going on a prepaid plan or mailing letters through a soon to be extinct postal service.
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Who broke your heart ~ Baby if I do
Well I'd spend all night losing sleep
I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind
Who broke your heart ~ Baby if I do
Well I'd spend all night losing sleep
I'd spend the night and I'd lose my mind