The Day Internet Privacy Died: October 26th, 2010.

[Woodsey]

You know your ISP records everything you've done on the net for the past year or something?

What's the problem? This is nothing new, and the local search function thing isn't even an issue.

as I said, it's just that now it's right in front f our faces and we have done nothing about it.

Also, to Minerva at b.net, I am the same person.

How is it? They're basing search results on your IP location. So what?

The issue is that they FORCE that feature on us, and that they flaunt it on their homepage, and we have done nothing to stop it.

I suppose I AM being paranoid, but next thing you know, our TV will be localized, not just by local channels, but by CNN, or discovery channel.

Sooner or later, the internet will be entirely localized, and under the control of whatever area we live in.

I DO NOT want that. The internet is the last method for (more or less) anonymous communication and free speech, where we could say our minds without fear of social repruccusions.

Yeah, you're still missing several links from getting from the local feature to the destruction of the internet.

All it does is put the things it feels are more relevant to you to the top of your list. Y'know, like a good search engine does. It doesn't remove the options from different locations.

 

[Valkyrie101]

Oh man I've just been watching A LOT of porn, I mean, um, er, oh fuck i9t I was watching porn. Am I going to get crucified now.

No, but you are going to hell.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

You know your ISP records everything you've done on the net for the past year or something?

What's the problem? This is nothing new, and the local search function thing isn't even an issue.

as I said, it's just that now it's right in front f our faces and we have done nothing about it.

Also, to Minerva at b.net, I am the same person.

How is it? They're basing search results on your IP location. So what?

The issue is that they FORCE that feature on us, and that they flaunt it on their homepage, and we have done nothing to stop it.

I suppose I AM being paranoid, but next thing you know, our TV will be localized, not just by local channels, but by CNN, or discovery channel.

Sooner or later, the internet will be entirely localized, and under the control of whatever area we live in.

I DO NOT want that. The internet is the last method for (more or less) anonymous communication and free speech, where we could say our minds without fear of social repruccusions.

Yeah, you're still missing several links from getting from the local feature to the destruction of the internet.

All it does is put the things it feels are more relevant to you to the top of your list. Y'know, like a good search engine does. It doesn't remove the options from different locations.

I'm in one of those, "tired of life's BS, wnats to do something about it moods", so I guess it's just that.

 

[DeASplode]

I dread the day Facebook starts collecting information on things you've done on your PC and posts them to your wall.

"James, is watching porn"

 

[Edorf]

It's the start of google's evil plan to take over the world I tell you... Soon they'll have their own military forces!

 

[BGH122]

I don't understand the issue, could you please clarify for me why this is a loss of internet privacy? They've always known where we're from based upon our IP address and that's an inevitable function of the internet: the server exists in a physical location that the packets must be sent to, so its location is necessarily identifiable.

Is the problem that they're making searches bound to a location and that lowers our range of accessible data and biases it towards a given location? That doesn't really seem like a privacy issue, however.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

I don't understand the issue, could you please clarify for me why this is a loss of internet privacy? They've always known where we're from based upon our IP address and that's an inevitable function of the internet: the server exists in a physical location that the packets must be sent to, so its location is necessarily identifiable.

Is the problem that they're making searches bound to a location and that lowers our range of accessible data and biases it towards a given location? That doesn't really seem like a privacy issue, however.

This is the issue:

I dread the day Facebook starts collecting information on things you've done on your PC and posts them to your wall.

"James, is watching porn"

 

[Wintermoot]

Dear Google Corporate fucks,
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU FUCK OP YOUTUBE GOOGLE AND ALL YOUR OTHER PRODUCTS FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY INSTEAD OF CONSUMER FRIENDLIENESS?!
-a pissed of consumer
now I just need to find google customer service...

 

[Danish rage]

Nothing. The Internet has already been to stuffed with useless crap, we cannot retreat. Except for that porn buisness. We can fix that.

Well less than 1 percent of the internet is porn relatet.

And you dare fix it, i need my random wanks.

 

[Ironwampa]

Don't lose hope yet for there is still tor which enables you to search the internet completely anonymously.

 

[B2kCyclops]

If you use Google and complain about someone collecting/saving data about you, then you're more than a decade too late.
The "personalised web experience" is something that's with google for many years now.
Collecting every possible data is one of Googles greatest business parts.
And imaginge who delivers ad-companies the tailor made data about you: Google Inc.
To ensure that, they work with goverments and NGOs for years.
Interesting enough those pages about this topic are hard to find via google... weird.
Their "do no evil" slogan is a staight lie, always was, always will.

Either you accept it, and change your surfing behavior approprietly, or ignore it completely.
Your choice.

 

[unoleian]

There is no issue.
This is ridiculous. If that was the death of internet "privacy," that "privacy" died the moment you ever logged onto the internet.

As many have already explained, it knows your location by IP, and always has. Now they're simply utilizing your location, er, "productively."

Are you telling you've never once, not ever, ONCE, seen those dynamic images that Display your town name? Like a person holding a banner that says "[Obscure Town Name Here] rocks!!!" where [Obscure Town Name Here] happens to be YOUR town? Those are YEARS old...

 

[Thespian]

... Dude. You can still find all the stuff you seem to miss so much. Easily. It takes two, maybe three more seconds of searching

 

[AWAR]

Someone has been living under a rock for some time...

 

[Tharwen]

You know your ISP records everything you've done on the net for the past year or something?

What's the problem? This is nothing new, and the local search function thing isn't even an issue.

as I said, it's just that now it's right in front f our faces and we have done nothing about it.

Also, to Minerva at b.net, I am the same person.

How is it? They're basing search results on your IP location. So what?

The issue is that they FORCE that feature on us, and that they flaunt it on their homepage, and we have done nothing to stop it.

I suppose I AM being paranoid, but next thing you know, our TV will be localized, not just by local channels, but by CNN, or discovery channel.

Sooner or later, the internet will be entirely localized, and under the control of whatever area we live in.

I DO NOT want that. The internet is the last method for (more or less) anonymous communication and free speech, where we could say our minds without fear of social repruccusions.

Our TV is localised. Service providers just know that it's more profitable to sell everyone the same signal.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

Nothing. The Internet has already been to stuffed with useless crap, we cannot retreat. Except for that porn buisness. We can fix that.

Pretty much what I was going to say.
BTW, I love your avatar.

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Dear Google Corporate fucks,
WHY THE FUCK DID YOU FUCK OP YOUTUBE GOOGLE AND ALL YOUR OTHER PRODUCTS FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY INSTEAD OF CONSUMER FRIENDLIENESS?!
-a pissed of consumer
now I just need to find google customer service...

That too. XD.

 

[Lord Honk]

I don't give a crap anymore. It's like trying to vacuum a desert, it get's mroe frustrating the more you try, and it doesn't do anything. I couldn't care less if my employer found out that I like those japanese groping games and google for gay porn on my lunch break (which I don't.... or do I? oO ). The whole situation is just really pissing me off so much that not caring at least calms my nerves, and by god are they worn thin.