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    What is spying? (lemmy.world)
    submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Sorry to post my shitty neofetch to this community

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    [–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

    I'm sure not everyone will agree, but honestly, I kind of stopped caring too much. I've been using Instagram, Google, Android, Apple, and many other service providers for years and none seems to know a lot about me based on the stuff I see being advertised to me.

    None of them seem to have figured out what languages I speak (I get a lot of language courses for English and German, but I'm native in both), what my education level is (I get a lot of 'study your bachelor or master here or there or online' despite having two master's degrees), where I really live (lots of British stuff always, but I live out of Europe), or what my hobbies are (lots of mobile games that I wouldn't touch with a stick).

    Yeah, it seems they get the basics (I'm male, below 35, I am interested in educational stuff), but that could be anyone... And if I can use their services for tree for them to put me in a category with some 10M others, I'm kinda okay

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Google "Only spy the web" is highly inaccurate...they are everywhere. In every website, in your android phone, in your YouTube, in your Google drive, in your email, in your Google maps...

    Anyways... I will calm down now. :)

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's cute, people think their android os isn't collecting an embarrassing amount of data. Even if you turn everything off but cellular, it still phones home with cellular tower triangulation, app usage, call history, general web activity, weather the phone thinks your walking driving or riding a Bike, device diagnostics, etc.

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I wish there was a paid google of no spying... I mean what does google one get me, but the ability for google to spy on more or my data?

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Everyone thinks about the spying as relating to themselves, the individual.

    Google doesn’t give a shit about you. Google gives a shit about us. Collectively. They can monitor the collective soul of the world. When people are busy, when they’re not paying attention, when they’re mad, who, and for how long; how they react to certain subjects…how to get them to listen about certain subjects, how to bring them around to certain subjects, how to keep them disagreeing with other viewpoints, etc.

    They’re literally developed “a remote control for the flock” and everyone’s out here like “why do I care if Google see my save games I have 500 hours in CoD so wut”

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Yes but we do what we can.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    In your car, your TV, your network, your dns.....

    Everywhere.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    They are even part of paying for the massive underwater cables between continents that all internet traffic runs through.

    They took everything over.

    It's the most extensive surveillance network in the world.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Literally 1984.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Except that instead of an authoritarian government using it to totally control the learned populace, they are showing you ads.

    We've still got a way to go before 1984. If it did happen, you wouldn't be able to discuss it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, Google does release data to governments so I guess it's both.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Stalking. Spying sounds like a kids game or movie. This isn't observing. This isn't passive. It is actively exploiting. It is predatory, targeted, manipulative, with intent. It is stalking.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Google spy through android as well

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I use lineageOS because of this

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    I'll be switching to Lineage soon...

    Google forced my manufacturer (Fairphone) to effectively 'disable' the fingerprint scanner from android 13 onwards for the FP3. Our Lineage fork reverted that Google mandated change thankfully

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And chromeos

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

    Mmm, chromeos 🤤