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Google mini, Amazon echo, etc

Superfly said:
All places do this anyway. Ever noticed on Facebook that the things you've looked at online always show up on the right hand side of your feed? Makes it frustrating around Christmas, that's for sure.
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That always creeps me out. Also I don't want to keep seeing it after I've purchased .
 
holbritter said:
That always creeps me out. Also I don't want to keep seeing it after I've purchased .
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I was so pissed - a few years ago for Christmas, I bought my husband an XBox One, and when I was showing him something on FB, it showed up on the right side of the page.
 
Superfly said:
Anybody use these? I don't have one yet, because I have been concerned about the privacy issues.

So are there privacy issues?

Does anyone have one?

And which is the best? I heard Google mini is better than Amazon echo, but Google mini doesn't have an audio out port.
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I have the Amazon Echo, but I haven't even taken it out of the box yet.
 
Superfly said:
I was so pissed - a few years ago for Christmas, I bought my husband an XBox One, and when I was showing him something on FB, it showed up on the right side of the page.
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I never thought of that! Thank you! Seriously, thank you. I just bought a new wedding band for my husband, and yeah I saw what I was looking at this morning on the sideline. Actually it was there when I checked my email. He only uses my laptop occasionally, but I'll have to do something about it now.
 
holbritter said:
I never thought of that! Thank you! Seriously, thank you. I just bought a new wedding band for my husband, and yeah I saw what I was looking at this morning on the sideline. Actually it was there when I checked my email. He only uses my laptop occasionally, but I'll have to do something about it now.
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Beefheart said to use Fluffbuster and it will take all those ads away. I haven't tried it yet, but plan on it. I am buying several things from Amazon this weekend, and I don't want them to show up.
 
Superfly said:
Anybody use these? I don't have one yet, because I have been concerned about the privacy issues.

So are there privacy issues?

Does anyone have one?

And which is the best? I heard Google mini is better than Amazon echo, but Google mini doesn't have an audio out port.
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ReverendHellh0und said:
The Amazon echo is not constantly recording your voice. It only listens for the "Alexa" word, wakes up, send your request to AVS, once the query is complete, it does not record anymore.
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Understood.

But even in this thread, we're hearing of accidental activation. And if you have friends or family around, they need to know they'll be recorded so they can remain silent about their personal business.

I can see the appeal, but not at the expense of Google recording me, archiving me, and doing God knows what with my personal data. I value my personal privacy, but it's disappearing so quickly. Unfortunately the Constitution is silent on privacy, so it falls incubation upon our legislators to protect it. Even more unfortunately, our legislators are bought & paid for by the very entities and individuals invading our privacy.
 
Superfly said:
can I make a running list of things I need and will it send it to like my email? Or cell phone?
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There's an app you use to setup the device and also can use to access your lists. I think you can also link to third party list apps and view them that way.
 
Chomsky said:
Understood.

But even in this thread, we're hearing of accidental activation. And if you have friends or family around, they need to know they'll be recorded so they can remain silent about their personal business.

I can see the appeal, but not at the expense of Google recording me, archiving me, and doing God knows what with my personal data. I value my personal privacy, but it's disappearing so quickly. Unfortunately the Constitution is silent on privacy, so it falls incubation upon our legislators to protect it. Even more unfortunately, our legislators are bought & paid for by the very entities and individuals invading our privacy.
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I just leave bravo tv on, real close to it when I am out.
 
Superfly said:
Beefheart said to use Fluffbuster and it will take all those ads away. I haven't tried it yet, but plan on it. I am buying several things from Amazon this weekend, and I don't want them to show up.
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Just use any ad blocker and you won't see any ads regardless of what's in them.
 
Superfly said:
Anybody use these? I don't have one yet, because I have been concerned about the privacy issues.

So are there privacy issues?

Does anyone have one?

And which is the best? I heard Google mini is better than Amazon echo, but Google mini doesn't have an audio out port.
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Of course I do... 2 dots and an Echo. Meh, I'm not too worried about privacy issues. I do keep one next to our bed just in case they're listening though.
 
Cephus said:
Just use any ad blocker and you won't see any ads regardless of what's in them.
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No, fluffbuster deletes ads inside of facebook, and lets you change things up, like blocking anyone from trying to get you to sign up for a game..tells you when someone either left FB or unfriended you, etc.
 
beefheart said:
No, fluffbuster deletes ads inside of facebook, and lets you change things up, like blocking anyone from trying to get you to sign up for a game..tells you when someone either left FB or unfriended you, etc.
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I wouldn't care about any of that, I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than step foot on Facepalm, but if you care about blocking ads, most ad blockers will do it regardless of where they are found.
 
Cephus said:
I wouldn't care about any of that, I'd rather gouge my own eyes out than step foot on Facepalm, but if you care about blocking ads, most ad blockers will do it regardless of where they are found.
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I use a blocking program, one of the best...it doesn't block the "suggested posts" and such that flow in FB.
 
Cephus said:
I'm sure there are massive privacy issues. They are always listening. You can't tell me that Amazon and Google aren't keeping track of what you say, after all, Google wants to target advertising toward your interests. I don't trust any of those companies farther than I can throw them, thus I will never have any of this crap in my house.
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"Google wants to target advertising toward your interests"... Yet, I barely see any advertise of my interest. :roll:

If it was only that it would not be so bad, and this is what they want you to think, that is a fair trade because you get "search results and advertise of your interest". But they do much more with people data. They sell data to other companies to create products, for social, economic, criminal and many other researches. They give data to government and so on.

All this data is very useful to create better products, fast and best social predictions even criminal prevention. But the thing is, they take from you for free and sell to other companies as their commodity.

People say that in exchange we have search engineer, social medias and other stuff "for free". But it is not a fair trade since we have to see advertisement in such products. Meaning that they make money on us twice, first by getting our data free of charge and making money selling our data as their commodity, than by selling advertisement space. They could at least remove advertisement from their services as exchange from our data. But personally I would rather earn money from my collected data and pay to have access to social media, search engine and so on, with out advertisement.
 
Superfly said:
Well, hell. There goes that idea. :(



:lol: Point taken.



Seriously? About the google thing?
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Keep in mind google does rat out everything you do, that is why people have been switching to duck duck go, because they do not report everything you do to the govt like google.
 
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