Hey, millennials!
When did it stop bothering you that the biggest advertisers, data hoarders, and privacy abusers siphon data from your devices non-stop 24/7, creating entire profiles of you, including your location at all times, your likes/dislikes, who your talk with, whether you like peenus or vahgina, and recording all of your racist remarks that you leave on "social" media while drunk?
Was this ever an issue fort you, or do you pretty much have nothing to hide, unless it's from someone that you personally know?
25 year old who only recently got whatsapp, tinder and instagram reporting in. I started using all of these things consciously because I'm tired of being alone. I know they have my data but I only use the services to talk to women and women are even worse for your privacy than the mightiest botnet in the world, so I don't give a fuck.
>>55157032
Since installing those, do you at least get a fuck? I'm thinking of getting snap chat for that reason.
>>55157032
>>55157052
don't fall for the trap that is 3d
>>55157032
>>55156813
I only use my android phone to shitpost on 4chan, so no. Nothing else I have can be used to get data off of me, besides Google searches and such.
>>55157052
The best way to get with women, is to actually leave the house. Get a hobby, for example, or a pet. Go to gatherings, or even take a few courses of interest in college. Go to a museum. Read a book in a coffee shop. Be out there, bro.
SnapChat will only give you access to sloppy seconds and diseased whores. If you have no self-respect, and are into used vagina, then yes, it is a gold mine.
>>55157052
Eh, I need my smartphone for 4chan, social media and gmail. Oh and for work (outlook, linkedin, skype and to the bug tracker for work). It's pretty much 100% botnet, but what can I do? I also have passport, debit card, personalized e-ticket, euro id card and whatnot.
You can only escape data collection by being a loner farmer or a lumberjack.
>>55157062
>>55157093
I know, I know. It's irresistible though.
>>55156813
When I realized no actual HUMAN looks at that data, its all automated.
>>55157163
It's okay anon just don't forget your waifus
>>55157211
>"You've got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old. They've suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sort of necessary sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising position. But they're extremely attractive.
So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and show their co-worker. The co-worker says: ‘Hey that's great. Send that to Bill down the way.’ And then Bill sends it to George and George sends it to Tom. And sooner or later this person's whole life has been seen by all of these other people. It's never reported. Nobody ever knows about it because the auditing of these systems is incredibly weak."
T-thanks, NSA... :(
>>55157154
Oh yeah also be attractive to some extent and able to maintain conversation
>>55156813
22 here. Fell for the privacy autism meme When I was 16 because of HN. About a year ago realized this shit's unavoidable unless you're running your own internet, and I don't actually care if the big brother knows that I watch mainstream taiwanese claymation.
>>55156813
>Hey, millennials!
kek.
>>55156813
I'm 18, so almost an actual millenial I guess. I used to use facebook a few years ago although I never uploaded a single pic of myself, stopped using it around 2014 or so. I still use skype, to contact my two friends in life, but we only talk in our native language which is far too irrelevant for anyone to bother analyzing our convos. I use win7 which is supposed to spy on you less than win10, and I don't use gmail.
I don't think I'll ever go full autism mode and spend my days ricing my thinkpad running arch in my mom's anechoic basement to stop the gubberman from spying on my loli vr collection, but I feel uneasy about surveillance and I try to avoid it as long as it's not extremely uncomfortable.
>>55158245
>almost an actual millenial I guess
Holy fuck, your retarded.
>>55158345
What's your problem? Doesn't "millenial" mean people who were born after 2000?
>>55158373
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=millenial
>only botnets I volunteered for are facebook and skype
>facebook because I've had it since when I was a lad in middle school and it wouldn't matter if I deleted it
>skype because nerds won't switch to anything else, and no other service has similar features
I've been fapping to loli for over 10 years and nothing has come of it yet.
If you accept the botnet it won't harm you.
>>55158428
Raidcall is good if you're not doing video.
>>55158404
>a person reaching adulthood around the year 2000
Wew it looks like I'm not even one, since I was 3 in 2000 :^)
I don't value my freedom since I don't do shit with it. I like to do some math, some programming, write and play a little music, go out with friends and sail on the mediterranean sea. Google and Snpachat never prevented me from doing these things so I don't see why I wouldn't use them.
Still not using facebook though because I don't like how it breaks social bounds.
>>55158473
>I've been fapping to loli
>>55158555
>not fapping to most of 2D
You're missing out.
>>55158488
>using the smiley with a carat nose
>>55156813
My porn search results just keep getting better.
If they watch me wank as a result then whatever.
>>55158763
>using the "using the smiley with a carat nose" meme
>>55156813
Don't care, I have nothing to hide.
>>55156813
Never stopped bothering me, always been an issue, but I don't really know what to do about it/how to prevent it. Even un-"botnetting" your OS doesn't fully help, given all the data companies like Google and Apple store, with GPS tracking etc. Not to mention cell phone companies and their relationship with the NSA.
Definitely bothers me, just don't know of a way to prevent it.
The only social networking apps I have installed are
Twitter (I never post, just follow various individuals I'm interested in), Tinder, Snapchat and modified Kik. All of these apps have all permissions set to ask every time and location aways disabled. I have a Facebook account, but I haven't logged in over two years, mostly because it was a resource hog on my phone.
Google has its dick tightly up my own ass though. I use it all, Gmail, Play Music, Keep, Drive, Maps, Android, etc. I don't use their web browsers or log in to my account on other browsers, but Google Now is too fucking useful to break away from, I'm sorry.
What can we do?
>>55156813
>implying you can protect yourself from hardware backdoors
https://libreboot.org/faq/#intelme
"In summary, the Intel Management Engine and its applications are a backdoor with total access to and control over the rest of the PC. The ME is a threat to freedom, security, and privacy, and the libreboot project strongly recommends avoiding it entirely. Since recent versions of it can't be removed, this means avoiding all recent generations of Intel hardware. "
>>55159450
The only thing you can do is go full survivorman and live out in the wild.
>>55159450
Nothing, but there's no point to do anything. Most botnet tracking is harmless. If you really feel like you need additional security for some reason, just protect just the data you need instead of going full tinfoil. If you use /g/, you should be knowledgeable enough to do at least that
>>55156813
It never stopped bothering me. There just isn't a whole lot I can do about it as an individual. The biggest platforms today are driven by the biggest data mongers. The services are "free" so randoms will flock to them anyway. Even subscription social services will sell your info behind your back rendering the difference worthless.
>>55157032
Raises an interesting point: if you want to stay social today, you have to keep up with the zeitgeist to some degree. In previous generations, it used to mean matching the latest fashion or keeping up with whatever music trends, today, it is app about the social platform antics.
>>55157154
Tiny dogs are the best
>>55159661
It doesn't bother me a lot in all honesty. Every company collects their clients' data, not just the media ones. It's an essential part of doing business and it's just happens that the software companies provide the means of social interaction. And people agree with terms of services and don't seem to care.
I don't really mind because I'm careful not to put anything to personal on line and the use the information to send me ads for shit that I might actually want to buy. Also ads help to keep shit free on the Internet
