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Posted March 31, 2018
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Tauto: Reading this and thinking,is it addictive? Contagious? It must be like detoxing oneself off something that's bad.Never had nor never will be attached to those crap sites as having real life friends is much better,I guess congrats is in order for quiting:)
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Lord_Kane: It was never a question of addiction, I hated the site going in, I always was looking for a chance to leave, and the political bullshit following the 2016 US election and the Canadian elections a couple of years prior finally made me just leave,.
If I (hated the site going in),it would of been first and last visit if I indeed did make the decision to explore which in all probability would never of happened.
Posted March 31, 2018
Not quite on topic, but I just read that the US is putting some policy in place (still to be approved and all) for visa applicants to provide all social media, email addresses and phone numbers. Which begs the question, haven't they already captured this, can they not for instance just ask google to provide it?
Posted March 31, 2018
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StingingVelvet: Granted I need to read more about it probably, but reading a few articles it seems to me what Facebook is doing is incredibly obvious and totally opted into. Also the same data mining was used for years before this and praised, because Obama was winning using it.
yeah totally .. also im sure thats why mozilla released a plugin to put facebook into a container .. so facebook is stopped spying on everyone on every webpage that only has a facebook (login) button or is reading their cookie(s)

maybe you were just 1-2 days early with cranking out the jokes :D
Post edited March 31, 2018 by _mz_
Posted March 31, 2018
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Breja: Peer pressure is the ultimate warning sign that the thing in question should be avoided at all costs.
I was peer pressured into Blade Runner 2049.

No regrets there.
Post edited March 31, 2018 by Vainamoinen
Posted March 31, 2018
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nightcraw1er.488: Not quite on topic, but I just read that the US is putting some policy in place (still to be approved and all) for visa applicants to provide all social media, email addresses and phone numbers. Which begs the question, haven't they already captured this, can they not for instance just ask google to provide it?
They sure can,but it's just a smoke screen.
Posted March 31, 2018
Just to throw this out, the self storage industry is going thru something similar:

http://www.selfstoragetalk.com/forum/general-self-storage-forums/general-storage-chat/169363-sparefoot-aquires-sitelink-software

For reference, Sparefoot is an online company that pretty much spams the internet with lots of websites that are supposed to feed possible customers to you.

Sitelink is management/ account software.

If you skim the comments, folks are suggesting that it's all for the data and both companies have lots of it.

I'm not a fan of either company. I;ve had discussions about accessibility and usability with both of them and both have turned a blind eye to. You'll note that the website I linked to up there isn;t running a SSL either.
Posted March 31, 2018
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Vainamoinen: ...you cannot but feel like a social outcast.
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Mr.Mumbles: I rather be that than a fucking sheep. That said, e-mail still exists or, heaven forbid, people could actually call others by phone! I guess that takes too much effort though. =/
Alternately, there's IRC, Discord, other social media networks that nobody has ever heard of and even Myspace!
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drmike: I'm not a fan of either company. I;ve had discussions about accessibility and usability with both of them and both have turned a blind eye to. You'll note that the website I linked to up there isn;t running a SSL either.
Sounds like a good reason for a white hat to visit before the black hats visit instead.
Post edited March 31, 2018 by Darvond
Posted March 31, 2018
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Darvond: Sounds like a good reason for a white hat to visit before the black hats visit instead.
Actually I sent off a couple of emails to the parent company and all they did was pass it back to the folks running the website.

Due to the work online I do, I'm actually under a number of NDAs and security bonds. Rather not do anything to cause issues with those as it would put my own clients at risk.

But, yes the thought of dropping a few hints in certain places has crossed my mind. The swtor support forum is running a much older version of vBulletin with things worse off than here. I find spam links in the footer quite often. Not the first time I've thought about it.
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Fairfox: so freakin' long an' i didnt understand most of it
I understood about half. Then again, I was a literature student way back when. Appreciation deepened afterwards as I tried to fill the gaps with online sources and that hasn't yet stopped. But, yeah. Way too long. I'm with Hitchcock on that one: "The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

Well, ok, and the coccyx. :)
Posted March 31, 2018
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Fairfox: so freakin' long an' i didnt understand most of it
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Vainamoinen: Then again, I was a literature student way back when. A
Thta doesn't matter.

I was a lit major. I became fluent in Olde English. I still don't have a fucking clue anything she posts.
Posted March 31, 2018
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tinyE: I was a lit major.
That may help you to understand Blade Runner 2049, i.e. find the personal answers to which the movie intends to be the question. We were talking about that and only that. :)
Posted March 31, 2018
Strange ... the Oculus client has just added some "Connect to Facebook" stuff. Strange that it comes right after it was added to Galaxy.

Dammit, there's no way to remove the opt-in banner. With the price I paid for my Oculus, this is the most expensive nagware evah!
Posted March 31, 2018
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KasperHviid: Strange ... the Oculus client has just added some "Connect to Facebook" stuff. Strange that it comes right after it was added to Galaxy.

Dammit, there's no way to remove the opt-in banner. With the price I paid for my Oculus, this is the most expensive nagware evah!
return it and demand a refund because that was not a feature when you bought it
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