18 Replies to “Break Them Up”

  1. I did some “research” on PU trucks, now every were I go on the net, effing trucks look back at me. This has been so for years now. Some one must have schitt the bed and woke up!!!!

    1. It’s just part of your severe insanity. It’ s permanent too but if you worry about it, go out to your garage, take a fairly long length of two inch flexible hose. Close the garage doors for privacy, hook up the hose to your cars exhaust, start the engine etc etc

  2. I have replaced the chrome browser on my android with Opera. Other than that, I don’t download Apps. EVER. They are all just bloatware, data mining ware, or tracking beacons.

    All Apps not required for making a phone call, texting or surfing the web are turn off or disabled. Granted, there’s probably no way to remain completely invisible from the Eye of Sauron, but I try.

  3. I remember when Facebook was first becoming a thing that there were “conspiracy theories” floating around that Facebook had been created at least in part by the CIA so that they could spy on everyone. It might not have been the CIA, but it appears to have been created to spy on everyone.

  4. I believe I know what the NSA is doing, and they are only doing it for their best interest.

    The bureaucracy expands to serve the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

  5. How long before the net is destroyed? Its almost there now.
    Get out while you still can!
    I shoulda predicted this!

  6. Nobody has ever given me a convincing explanation of what good a breakup would actually do—not while there’s any chance that the Baby Facebooks and Googles will be owned and controlled by the same people who control Ma Facebook and Ma Google now.

    In the past I’ve suggested nationalization, but it was pointed out that even this is no guarantee of reform while the loyalty of the US government to its people is at all in doubt.

    Perhaps transfer of Mr. Zuckerberg’s empire to the Israeli government in trust for the Jewish people is an option. Call it a long-overdue step towards proper reparations for Jewish property stolen or destroyed in the war.

  7. I dumped my “smart phone” a few weeks ago. It wasn’t under my control. Samsung in it’s great wisdom “upgraded” my phone one night and I woke up to find Peel Smart Remote running the phone, at least that what it appeared to be. Only Google junk , no previous setup that I had installed, no email except gmail, totally stripped and when I loaded my backup there was nothing there. Junked the thing right there. Went and got a flip phone that worked for me, after a fight on the phone with Telus on whether I could do so. Had to fight to get a decent flip phone that does what I want it to do…..answer the goddamned phone and little else. I now can select which browser I want to use, plug in which email I want to connect to and it does not connect to any internet service unless I specifically tell it to. Silence.

    It’s a Kyocera Dura XE. It’s targeted to “business” for field use. Only $350 bought outright. Only “business” accounts can get one at Telus. If you want a flip phone from Telus and aren’t a commercial account, they give you one choice…a retarded, seriously under performing crap flip phone. Free. I’ll let you decide if you think Telus is OK for you. All the others, I can’t speak for them.

    Telus sells only “smart phones”, high cost, high bloatware, high usage, to maximize their profits. Their fancy dancey little phone shops scattered around are just like all the other fashion electronics outfits. Millenials are suckers for this shit. Brain dead while the stuff this post goes on about goes on around them. Telus is also big on Huawei equipment, for years.

    Back when rural internet was in it’s infancy in Alberta (Telus is the old AGT), I got a mobile internet key (Huawei) for my laptop computer to connect. First time I plugged it in on the road, my anti virus went berserk and blocked it. Took it out and never used it again. I worked in oil and gas exploration at the time.

    Not only have the LPOC sold us out to the Chinese over decades, so has corporate Canada.

  8. I remain baffled by customer resistance to being the product.
    That was the business model from the beginning,you all clicked on that “agree to terms” box.
    Or did no one actually know just how intrusive and meddling these “free services” were going to be?
    For sure the legal babble of those terms of use never actually spelt out the simple facts,all your data is ours,privacy? Is non existent.
    But it is FREE.FREEE. Freeee….

  9. I Too have been inundated with Advertisements and queries of whether I liked this store or that store…Glad I did not SCRAP my older Z30 Blackberry.

    Google play store cannnot (normally), be installed on that machine.. And the operating systems is BB 10.3 . not Android….Seems I may well have to sell my Android phone and go back to what is still a more secure unit and one that I have NEVER Had an issue with.

    Hell, I may even consider buying a spare one to boot..!
    Beyond tired of being spied upon…

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