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RE: It's time to make it official: Enter the NaNoWriMo Contest

in #freewrite5 years ago

Oh, no, I meant a plugin for wordpress for users to be able to put their word count in.

Switching away from Google is a process. Sadly a lot of the other search engines still suck in different ways. I'm trying to slowly move away from it. But there is a potential issue that using a google account that's hooked up to other things may potentially dox you.

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You mean that you sign into other applications through the google account? I never do that. Not facebook, not google. Everything gets its own account. The thing is, so much is working together. Like email, YouTube and, and, and.
It is the biggest search engine for blog exposure and such...

The fact that they're so huge is what's so worrying. Many people use them for email and search and YouTube. Imagine if they wanted to be a bad actor. They have access to so much of everyone's data. Even when they aren't trying to be bad, every once in a while there's some controversy because they use that data for advertising or something like that.

If you access their search through a VPN, it's not so bad...if you completely isolate it from any account... But it's a bit scary to think about all that data that they have on everyone.

True. But I feel that privacy is a thing of the past. Our phones are listening to us and know where we are going. Our computers are probably watching as well. And I know that there are ways to stay private and such, but most of them require a bit of tech knowledge to make things work. Like I don't know how to go through a VPN.
And the services.... I was trying to switch to duck duck go. but since being on Steemit and having conversations with people whose language I am not speaking, I almost daily am using google translate. You know what I mean. and frankly, for me it is almost scarier to be on Facebook/Instagram.
But I do get your point and we have and do give our info away so freely. And we know that evil deeds are being done all the time...

VPN's are relatively easy to use these days. You just sign into an app. But, if anyone is actually using the amount of surveillance we probably should be afraid they might have...we're fucked. But that at least requires a certain clearance level.

Facebook probably gives less shits...but I think most people don't give as much info to them willingly. They just hang around in the background and track you through websites. Then again, I barely ever write emails...

Same here. And I am not a huge shopper and such. And I think that people give huge amount of info away - and I pretty much think that we are fucked. Big brother is watching - maybe doesn't care. But if something is up, we, as individuals have no chance...

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