Happy to announce that Ero Manga Girls, of which Maria is a part, is back up and running again!
You can visit them HERE, or also always see them in our link sidebar (seriously, there will be more links there one day!)
This should also please serve as a reminder about the day and age we live in, particularly on the Internet. Any and all things we do and say here are recorded and can and will be used against you, in and out of a court of law. Facebook, Google, and pretty much every large site you frequent are all using you to run their businesses. Anything you do that goes against them is literally taking money out of their wallets. You can imagine what you’d do if somebody was taking money from your wallet.
Question:
How do you avoid being tracked / datamined? Do you think it’s even possible to avoid this? Or is it the price we must pay to use these “free” services?
To your question: No, I think there’s no real, surefire way to not be tracked/datamined. You can hide and cover things up somewhere (and hope that a data server crashes along the way) but that data is always out there somewhere.
I pretty much try to be smart about it – not going on H sites on work computers, separate emails, et cetera.
Not in the EUSSR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance#European_Union
PS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
Thank you : )
Sadly, as you said, with “free services” the end user is the “product” and not, well… the end user. I particularly dislike the fact that Google forces you to use your real name and when you sign in for Gmail you’re automatically signed in YouTube, Google+, Picasa, etc… etc…
First thing I did was deleting “my” Google+ account (I was Ritsuko Akagi ; ) ).
DuckDuckGo is a nice alternative, but not at Google level.
(Funny fact: We recovered 90% of our blogs using Google Search Cache even though Google marked our blogs as “removed” : ) )