Recently, Google pushed a change to the backend of their blog system requiring a notice to be placed on the blog about the use of cookies. This wasn't some altruistic vision by Google, it was mandated by the EU courts and the statement is visible only if you access the blog from outside of the US.
If you are looking at the blog from outside the USA and want to turn off the notice you have to click: Learn More or Got It.
Ezpz right?
Not so.
The current Internet Business Model is based on advertising revenues. Google sells information to advertisers who are willing to pay a lot to get personalized information about you. Information about your likes and dislikes, your habits, your daily routines and your activates. The more details, the better. No detail is too small. The tiniest details define a lot about you and are worth even more to advertisers.
Internet companies like Google, Facebook make a lot of money off this advertising. Billions and Billions.
Your personal information was worth, $66+ Billion US dollars for Google and Facebook sold you for $12+ Billion US dollars in 2014.
Bet you didn't know you were that valuable.
Feel rich yet?
Didn't think so...
The El Dorado only flows one way and none of it is coming to you.
Our blog Privacy Statement hasn't changed. We don't track you but They do. They will track you and they will continue to sell you even after you are dead.
Years from now, you may be worth more as newer data mining techniques allow better pattern matching and predictive assessments. Patterns of parenting carry on to their children and to grand children. Children learn from their parents and even after a short period of rebellion, end up more like their parents than not. What you like, they like.
This is why internet companies are not going to stop. The biggest of them, are well aware that they are mapping not only your future but that of your children and people around you.
Future advertising will be a lot about what you do or didn't do in your lifetime.
Your Grand Mother liked lavender, shouldn't you use our chemically enhanced lavender garbage smell remover too? On sale at BioChemLifeEnhnacers with improved limited life expectancy from DNA damage included at no extra charge.
Your Great Grand Dad used RToolsRBetter, if it was good enough for Great Grand Dad, it's good enough for you! Honor your Ancestor by buying the complete toolset with a simple lifetime payment plan. Not enough lifetime? Get an extension with our easy on-line application assigning payments to future generations!
Your Great Great Aunt had an affair with SoNSo - find out the details in the Ashley Madison Historical Archives at Rear View Vision Geneology! We got Your Secrets!
Your Second Cousin Twice Removed was a trouble maker with a No Fly SSSS Boarding Pass. Want to remove the stigma? Contact Your helpful National Homeland Security Trouble Maker Removal Service Division at 1-800-WE-R-TORTURE or visit the Quiet Removals website. We Got Eyes! We are WATCHING YOU! We Got You On Track!
It's Generational Tracking and Pattern Matching.
Our Privacy Policy
Our Privacy Policy in a nutshell: WE DON'T TRACK YOU
Bad News: GOOGLE DOES
The Badder News: SO DOES EVERYONE ELSE
Our full privacy policy explanation link. You can also find it listed on the side panel menu under Our Privacy Policy 2015.
Here is Google's Requirement Statement for blogs to post cookie information and demand your acceptance:
European Union laws require you to give European Union visitors information about cookies used on your blog. In many cases, these laws also require you to obtain consent.
As a courtesy, we have added a notice on your blog to explain Google's use of certain Blogger and Google cookies, including use of Google Analytics and AdSense cookies.
You are responsible for confirming this notice actually works for your blog, and that it displays. If you employ other cookies, for example by adding third party features, this notice may not work for you.
If you have edited your blog in a way that hides this notice, it will be your responsibility to notify your visitors about cookies used on your blog and if necessary, obtain consent. Also, if you have added other blog features that set cookies, including third-party analytics or advertising services, you’ll need to provide additional or a different notice.
To see what the user message looks like from inside the USA you have to link to an EU edition of Google. Here is a link to blog from Google France:
MrsBizzyB from France.
There is some good news, but not a lot of it.
The battle for the public free access to information on the internet has not been lost yet. What has been lost is any possibility that all the minute details about your personal life collected will be secured, safe and used appropriately by corporations or governments.
If it has been harvested, it will be used.
It will be used because you clicked Got It or a similar check box on every site on the internet and you didn't read the EULA (End User License Agreement or the TOS (Terms of Service). Even if you did read them, you wanted the "hook and candy" more than your privacy. Maybe you didn't even understand what it is they were taking or how it was going to be used, now and forever more.
Even sites like this one, where WE DO NOT TRACK YOU, have to tell you, YOU ARE BEING TRACKED.
So, what can you do about this?
For a starter: Turn off JAVASCRIPT
It will break most sites and disable most trackers. It will make web pages ugly. It will block videos and limit what you see or are able to do. It messes up their Happy Harvesters.
It won't stop the harvesting, it just makes it harder for them to do it. It will slow down but will not stop the tracking.
You can turn it back on when you are ready to be tracked and harvested.
Of course, they won't make it easy for you to do this. Not even Open Source browsers want you to turn off JAVASCRIPT. You have to be purposeful in finding out how to click the DISABLE SCRIPTING option in your browser.
Try Googling 1 for the information...
Feeling secure and safe yet?
Didn't think so....
KimB Editor
1. If you use Google to search, they will harvest that you looked up how to disable JAVASCRIPT. It will go in their pile of OH NOES!!! Our Harvesters are being GANKED!
Definition: Gank
To kill, ambush, or defeat with little effort; used in online games.
