jaydor 345 Posted October 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Updates remember, allow Microsoft along with NSA to snoop interrogate peep into your computer. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 yea we got little side tracked on this one we should open a new discussion on the subject of optimizing one's system for various needs Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Updates remember, allow Microsoft along with NSA to snoop interrogate peep into your computer. Very possibly true, but it's naive to think you can prevent it by not installing the updates. Only political/legal prohibition has any hope of doing that, and even that may fail. Government employees bent on "national security" often seem to feel that the end justifies the means. The motives of MS, Google, Facebook and other commercial entities to snoop and vacuum up people's information is less clear to me and is even more difficult to justify, but that's happening too. John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Kevin Firth 114 Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Updates remember, allow Microsoft along with NSA to snoopinterrogate peep into your computer.The motives of MS, Google, Facebook and other commercial entities to snoop and vacuum up people's information is less clear to me.... PROFIT 1 Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted October 18, 2014 Report Share Posted October 18, 2014 Yeah, I understand that. I guess what I wrote was poorly worded. By the way I should have mentioned Apple too. I agree they are driven mainly by profit and to some extent by promoting some of their pet social causes, but just can't understand how glomming onto and keeping all that data converts to revenue, much less profit. John Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 ill help shade some lights for you John collecting this data allows the company to profile their end users this profiling is then used to promote variety of business the key is accurate profiling with regional promotion to be more exact; as pioneers for this methodology what we did in MSP (MySpace.com)back in the day we devloped the ability to profile our end users to their age appropriate sector; to their daily habit, im not going into how we collected the data just that we were permitted to do so when you singed up with us, we will use everything we could get; automatically draw conclusions now comes the best part for us; we then target a specific user with specific regional ads, age appropriate and many other factors we calculated and cross referenced before we popped an ad on their screen our artificial inelegance engine is what drove MSP behind all the freebie scene we netted a 1/4 cent for each ad we pushed; and we pushed about 24-31 million worth of ads, daily! Link to post Share on other sites
allardjd 1,853 Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Sounds pretty creepy, and those are just the legal, acknowledged uses. when you singed up with us, Was that Freudian? John 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 not at all; just cleverly worded most users never read the agreementto be honest we never had any mal intension other than making profit and benefit all parties involvedwe called it a win, win, win (www ) modelour end users got all our services for free = Win for our end userswe help local business beef up profits by profiling our users and helping them get potential buyers = Win for local businesswe profited from this = Win for company employees who continues to operate and have jobs Link to post Share on other sites
hifly 925 Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Yep, the marketing folk will get you profile and target you. After looking up hotels in the Cosford area I got a lot of ads from other hotels in the region. Although I cannot figure out why I get ads with pictures of semi naked Russian women who want to marry me. Link to post Share on other sites
MyPC8MyBrain 273 Posted October 19, 2014 Report Share Posted October 19, 2014 Although I cannot figure out why I get ads with pictures of semi naked Russian women who want to marry me. it's false positive probability Link to post Share on other sites
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