Google spies on you. Your life is Google's.

Google keeps all your data for years. If you have an Android smartphone, it requires a Google account so it can operate. Chance is you didn't know that Google kept all your data, including places in the real world you visited (locations), searches you searched, videos you watched, and everything you can think of.

Here is all your LIFE:
https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Not only that is a serious privacy breach for me at least, since Google does not mention this when I'm connecting my Google account to my Android. But a hacker hacking your Gmail password can spy on you for years to come. Where you go, where you eat, where you are, all your online activity, all your life. Even contacts. Yes, contacts usually sync with Google, probably messages too.

Oh, and YEAH.
Google also keeps data on all the websites you have visited. Pron ones too, yeah. Goodbye private sex life. Don't feel surprised when the FBI knocks on your door because of the search you just initiated "How to 3D print a bump stock". Or if you type "How to make a small bomb" but you only meant to do that as a backyard experiment or for 4th of July, congrats. You're now officially on Homeland Security's wish list.

Enjoy your o-privacy!
You're welcome.

 

I take countermeasures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_Badger

This way I can look up bomb-making instructions with confidence.

 

Except you agreed to it when you clicked "I agree" without reading what you agreed to.

 

Mobile operators do that. Put a ton of text and most of it - with small letters. Nobody will read that. Plus, show proof that Google actually warns. Screenshot.

 

Honestly you'd think anyone who spies on my mundane life would be fast asleep by now

 

You can select to opt in or out

I have nothing to hide..

If I did it wouldn't be in the internet

 

just don't blow yourself up in the process

 

I have plenty to hide... it's killing me leading this boring life.. I don't know how much longer I can keep it up

 

A ton of text in small font is what makes the warranty no good when you try to get some help with the problem. You thought you had a warranty.

 

Hell it not making bombs it also daring to read one of the middle east English language terrorists websites for example.

footnote do not use google as your search engine try such engines as duckduckgo for example.

 

I do use DuckDuckGo, now that you mention it, though you should know that Google has tracking on quite a lot of websites, as do other companies. Avoiding Google's search engine is only the beginning, and there may be no proper end when it comes to avoiding their all-seeing gaze. I don't know how well it works to block tracking and ad domains and to use alternative search engines. Websites can still gather quite a lot of uniquely identifying information about you and, as far as I'm aware, share that with Google and others without a care in the world.

Looking at Privacy Badger right here and now, one of the domains it lists is plus.google.com. What is that doing on politicalforum.com? What possible reason does this site have to refer to plus.google.com? The other two I see are connect.facebook.net and platform.twitter.com. There you have three greedy corporate internet companies aware of your presence if you do not block them entirely, and even then, again, who knows whether that is 100% effective?

 

Yes, unless you choose to turn that off or delete the history.

I bet they do. They won’t do it very clearly with the big long agreement we all skip over but that isn’t a Google specific issue (and they’re better than some organisations on that).

If a hacker accesses your Gmail account there’s a whole load of bad things they could do. That’s why these accounts have security. I checked your link to confirm it was what I thought it was and in addition to putting in my username and password, I had to confirm via my phone and I got a separate notification of the access. On a related note, I don’t log on to Google on this PC and so nothing I do on here appears on the Google account history.

The websites you visit will be recorded at all sorts of different levels. If you visit sites you’d be embarrassed about (or worse), Google is the least of your concerns.

Good. I’ve absolutely no issue with the authorities investigating legitimately suspicious behaviour. Like any tool or resource it has potential for abuse but that doesn’t make the tool bad.

 

Suggest using a sandbox for your browser that will wiped the whole session including any attempts to place so call super cookies along with any malware tracking or otherwise once your are done browsing.

 

I could make that effort, if I was anywhere close to concerned about this as a problem. As it stands, it’s way down on my list of concerns.

 

That fine but once you had installed a sandbox that is the end of the matter and you added a lot of protections from evil doers such as ransomware attackers and so on as anti tracking is just one part of the benefits of having a sandbox between your system and the internet.

footnote Microsoft had just added a sandbox into windows 10 on some versions which I find amusing as sandboxs programs had been around since the earily days of XP.

 

Smartphones also listen to every word you say, especially Google Androids.

Experiment.

Say "I have diarrhea" while you are holding your smartphone and within 24 hours watch how many ads pop up for diarrhea and Pepto Bismol when you are on your computer.

"Honey...we are out of toilet paper" !!!

"I think I'll paint the bedroom this weekend."
Watch for all of the paint advertising ads that start popping up with in 24 hours.

 

We know who you are, and what you want.

 

is google run by India now? is most of the tech companies run by India?... could this become a national security issue?

 

what DNS server do you use, those track you too, even to get to this site you had to send a request to your dns server to get a ip address for http://www.politicalforum.com

our generation will be the last to know true privacy - 1984 is coming fast, or "The Circle"

 

You know you do not need to used DNS server as you can always just place the address of this site for example in your host file an your computer would never never need to do a look up in the future an of course there is tor.

Let see address is 198.74.61.193 for this website so placing it in the hosts file an who need DNS?

Thanks as I had not play with my host file for years and I am happy to see that it still work just fine.

 

Contrary to their founding principal, Google is evil. It is fairly simple to prevent Google's prying eyes from collecting data on you. Some things to note:

• If you use an Android, Google is tracking your location, listening to your conversations, and collecting data about any web connected activity you use the Android to access.
• If you use Google's Chrome browser, everything you do online is being tracked by Google, regardless of any other measures you take to avoid them. Being an installed program, chrome has access to everything stored on your computer.
  
• Using Google supplied controls to 'opt out' does not prevent them from collecting data on you, it only prevents them from sharing that data with advertising partners. They collect the same data regardless of the privacy settings you choose.
• Obviously, if you use any of Google's products; Google, YouTube, Gmail, etc., They will collect information about you, the content you access or store, searches, etc.
  
• The tin-foil hat crowd suggests that Alphabet, Google's parent company, is operated by a notable government alphabet agency. Wouldn't surprise me if that were true.

How to mitigate Google's prying eyes? Don't use Google's products and services. Use a VPN, use Tor browser, and install a pi-hole device in your network to filter your dns queries.

 

Correct. DNS is often overlooked when securing your privacy.

I use a pi-hole that fowards any dns queries through the TOR network to OpenDNS.

It compares the URL to a black hole list for ad and tracking sites, and only forwards legitimate dns queries that are not already in its cache.

 

Of course, if the IP address changes, which they often do in large hosting situations where they are managing loads and the like, the hosts file entry will fail you, sending to an overloaded server, or leaving you wondering if the site is down.

And, you still need to make a DNS query to get the address to start with, or to troubleshoot your hosts file entry.

 

and some ISPs now use deep packet inspection - net neutrality rules were suppose to prevent this, but those have been undone

 

LOL once more as for every problem there is a solution as in the new standard being created that encrypted the DNS lookup.

Next the address of this site for example had not change in some years.