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Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 23, 2019 at 08:32 PM
jaslar wrote:
>It happened in February (see
>https://thenextweb.com/google/2019/02/05/google-has-quietly-dropped-ban-on-personally-identifiable-web-tracking/).
>Google is also revising software to block Chrome ad-blocking extensions.
>(https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/14/17011266/google-chrome-ad-blocker-features).
Thanks for this. I missed the first bit of news. Yes, that’s troubling.
As for the ad-block plans, I’m hoping that clever people will be able to provide some tools to circumvent that, just like uBlock Origin guy or that Google come to their senses and stand down on this.
I’m aware that I made a deal with the devil. But as long as I’m able to block out all advertising, I don’t mind if Google analyses my patterns and monetises it in exchange for the services that I do like to use.
But if I’m unable to block the ads, the deal is off.
>The questions that worry me: (1) through the adoption of our cheap
>subscriptions and devices, do we hand over every click, driven ever more
>precisely to our deepest preferences (by a scattershot of images)
>((linked to sales)). (((linked to us, specifically)))? Yes. We do. (2)
>who has access to that information? Answer to this one: anyone with a
>warrant. Any third party commercial partners, unknown to us. Hackers.
>(3) Who can get a warrant? Local practice varies. But an officer of the
>court does not necessarily mean judicial review. (4) Has this personally
>identifiable information been misused by law enforcement, or by those
>unnamed third parties? Oy. Maybe this is a new thread.
>
>But those two news items seem to be driving the heightened concern about
>privacy in the Googleverse.
These questions seem to be valid for most OS’s, and especially for mobile phones, and particularly for users of Facebook-type social network services, so I don’t think it’s just a Google-related issue. This is the brave new world we’re finding ourselves now, unfortunately.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Jun 24, 2019 at 01:48 AM
Dr Andus, if you get a chance, and perhaps in a new thread, I would be quite interested in how you use Dynalist for research as a Zettelkasten. Now that I am primarily using a Chromebook, and loving it, I have wondered about using Dynalist more intentionally for notes and bibdata. I would use date and time as a unique identifier - 2019 06 23 2045h, and appropriate tags.
I’d appreciate your thoughts, time permitting. Thank you.
Daly
Dr Andus wrote:
jaslar wrote:
>>Dr. Andus, is Dynalist replacing Workflowy for you?
>
>The way things are going I’ll probably be subscribing to both.
>
>It’s a bit of a luxury, as I could just switch everything over to
>Dynalist, but I do like to use WorkFlowy for most things (managing
>day-to-day tasks, an external brain, memory management), and keep
>Dynalist for my academic research only (basically a Zettelkasten), given
>its extra capabilities.
Posted by washere
Jun 24, 2019 at 04:41 AM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Can you provide more details and/or some specific reference on this?
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>washere wrote:
>>MS is not going to keep Windows as is if leaks are correct.
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>washere wrote:
>>If the leaks from inside MS are correct, Windows will change in a few
>>years in big ways, and will be in trouble.
I read a couple of tech news articles last month about leaks from MS, you’ll have to Google around yourself if interested. Basically they’re thinking of killing off office and making office only cloud based, 365 version. But goes further, they’re thinking of migrating Windows from a desktop os to a cloud OS. Pre-empt Chromebook popularity. Apparently not caring about some areas of third world, rural etc where broadband or even internet might not be available constantly or at all. No money there anyway comparatively for them. I don’t think these are leaks, they’re probably sending up balloons to test reactions. Eventually though, if not a couple of years, they will. Hence Linux.
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Also someone else asked about Google privacy here IIRC, you can now delete your whole location timeline generated from your Android phone etc, older article:
https://trendblog.net/how-to-delete-your-google-location-history-data/
Due to protests, can do more now as Google relented somewhat, recent article:
Also You can download your whole Google (Gmail based) data as a giant zip file, Google it and you’ll find how. Data is collected by Google constantly from Android phones, tablets, Chromebooks, wear os, Google update processes + chrome browsers on desktops, Google apps & extensions, etc. and indexed by your Gmail (play store, Chromebook, browser snooping by chrome etc). Not everyone believes what Google let’s you delete, is all they have or give up. It’s a murky area by Google, intentionally so.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 24, 2019 at 09:10 AM
Thanks for the feedback; I have no doubt about the cloud trends. It’s an irony that this is happening as more processing power is available in one’s pocket than ever before.
washere wrote:
>I read a couple of tech news articles last month about leaks from MS,
>you’ll have to Google around yourself if interested. Basically they’re
>thinking of killing off office and making office only cloud based, 365
>version. But goes further, they’re thinking of migrating Windows from a
>desktop os to a cloud OS. Pre-empt Chromebook popularity. Apparently not
>caring about some areas of third world, rural etc where broadband or
>even internet might not be available constantly or at all. No money
>there anyway comparatively for them. I don’t think these are leaks,
>they’re probably sending up balloons to test reactions. Eventually
>though, if not a couple of years, they will. Hence Linux.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jun 24, 2019 at 09:12 AM
Yes, Linux is looking more attractive by the day!
I’ve been taking a closer look at ZorinOS, a relatively recent Linux distro that looks pretty darn cool. I shall install it on a VM and play.
But what would I do without my favourite macOS apps? Could I cope?
No, is the short answer. Oh dear.