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4 Scale · 01-15-2019, 04:36 PM

I agree John D. is doing us a great favor. However, I hope everyone is aware that ISPs record and monitize all of our internet activity, and that it is all analyzed with sophisticated algorithms. I guess I'm an incurable cynic, when people are watching me from the darkness (they can see me but I cannot see them) I just don't trust that they have my best interests at heart. On the contrary.

Nevertheless, the benefits from many sites including this one are so great that the risk is, at the moment, worth it.

I use sites like FB just like Ed does - mainly to keep in touch with distant relatives. I use it even less now than I used to, given how careless FB is in both protecting its users and allowing bad actors (Cambridge Analytica is only the most famous example) access.

01-15-2019, 04:36 PM	#16
4 Scale User Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 544 Thanks: 194 Thanked 490 Times in 251 Posts	I agree John D. is doing us a great favor. However, I hope everyone is aware that ISPs record and monitize all of our internet activity, and that it is all analyzed with sophisticated algorithms. I guess I'm an incurable cynic, when people are watching me from the darkness (they can see me but I cannot see them) I just don't trust that they have my best interests at heart. On the contrary. Nevertheless, the benefits from many sites including this one are so great that the risk is, at the moment, worth it. I use sites like FB just like Ed does - mainly to keep in touch with distant relatives. I use it even less now than I used to, given how careless FB is in both protecting its users and allowing bad actors (Cambridge Analytica is only the most famous example) access. Last edited by 4 Scale; 01-15-2019 at 06:13 PM.

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