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People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you (www.uniladtech.com)

submitted 6 months ago by jorge to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 63 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I've had mine turned off for years, but it doesn't really matter, Google and all these tech giants will still collect whatever info they want regardless.

[–] red_pigeon@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Also one or a few people turning it off doesn't matter much. The tech giants still get their demographic statistics from the ones who haven't (which is the larger percentage of the population). You could be spending money on things based on targeted ads for your demographic.

In other words, you are creeped out about wondering what they could do with your personal data if you turn it on. But you should be even more creeped out about how your daily decisions are already influenced by them using others data

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I mean, you need the fucking money to buy shit in the first place. Lol

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's the funniest shit about this late stage capitalism. I just read somewhere that like a third of McDonald's customer base have been historically low income, and they just figured out a almost half of them have been priced out of their menu...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Well yeah, there’s a reason it’s called late stage, not “yet another stage” or “completed”. The ouroboros is getting fat from it’s greedy feast.

At a certain point the options became to slowly self destruct or accept defeat

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

Same, but I just reviewed mine a week or two ago when I finally switched my email away from Gmail, and lo and behold, there were more trackers enabled (for new stuff they added and I don't use, but still...).