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How long until your Youtube collections of Chomsky, Hedges, et al, make you "radicalized"? (Original Post) Mika Apr 2013 OP
6 years ago? BelgianMadCow Apr 2013 #1
you can do that with Flash 'cookies' you know Matariki Apr 2013 #2
I know, and I use an LSO killer addon, but it's good that you point it out. BelgianMadCow Apr 2013 #4
Too late. Warpy Apr 2013 #3
I don't think those guys are encouraging their audience to kill anyone. avaistheone1 Apr 2013 #5

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
1. 6 years ago?
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 05:59 PM
Apr 2013

Is my best guesstimate.

One day, I noticed that Youtube started remembering me even though I had no profile and cookies turned off.

Then I discovered that Google had bought Youtube, and read they were crosslinking from my gmail account somehow.

Needless to say, I killed my gmail account. It was around the time Google annouced they text-search your messages to provide adequate ads on the side.

On a side note, every page with a facebook icon tracks you, even when you're not logged in at facebook. The intel orgs have a direct backdoor in FB since they made so many requests.

Privacy is an illusion.

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
2. you can do that with Flash 'cookies' you know
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:08 PM
Apr 2013

they are hard to find and dispose of on your computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_shared_object

There are free programs that remove them.

BelgianMadCow

(5,379 posts)
4. I know, and I use an LSO killer addon, but it's good that you point it out.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 06:10 PM
Apr 2013

It's not like there's nothing we can do

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