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I'm guessing a lot of embarrassment, turned down credit, jobs denied, schools denied, etc. are likely but Trump supporters are true believers that he is never wrong and he is laughing all the way to the bank.
For every job denied to someone another person gets the job. Similarly I do not see my bombardemnt of credit card offers going away.
I don't think anyone should worry all that much unless at least 1% of their browsing is about a "questionable" subject, such as how to decapitate someone. Like many others, I research using Google so often and on such a wide variety of subjects, that it would have to take a very dedicated researcher to find even a possibility of a smoking gun about my interests. In fact, I would be surprised if even 5% of my browsing is even under the same general topic. (Well, perhaps 'Recipes' might qualify.)
I'm not worried about someone looking at my history. I do resent it being used to target advertising. I hate being hijacked by pop up adds. I was a little freaked out about the cameras on your lap top having the capability to spy on you. That's when I stopped surfing topless on really hot days. My new PC doesn't have a camera. Problem solved.
Google has known everything I've done online for years.
Nothing has really changed other than some people freaking out.
Exactly! The other day I was looking up something about chickens, when I logged in again and went to Facebook it had all the sites I had visited. They will get very bored following my animal obsessions. Plus, I spend too much time on C-D!
Trump signed the bill. Don't forget that. He acted like he cared about regular Americans when he was campaigning but now he's on the side of big businesses and billionaires.
Exactly! The other day I was looking up something about chickens, when I logged in again and went to Facebook it had all the sites I had visited. They will get very bored following my animal obsessions. Plus, I spend too much time on C-D!
This ISP thing is 10 times larger than google searches. The ISP thing tracks web sites that you have in your favorites and websites where you clicked links and websites that you typed into the URL. None of these are tracked by google because you didn't use google (or any search engine).
A good example is if you go to several companies' career web sites to apply for a job. And you apply for some jobs. Your employer can get your ISP history and see where you applied for a job, and which companies you applied at.
Another example is if you buy airplane tickets online and rent a car online. Someone can get the dates that you will be on vacation. There could even be a new company that buys ISP content and they can extrapolate such data and sell a service that is something like "get anyone's future vacation dates". Burglars can subscribe and break into your home when you are gone.
How am I affected? Well, since it happened, I now get 2-3 calls a day from a Pakistani sounding technician from Microsoft services telling me my computer is having troubles. All he needs is my name, address, telephone number (I don't know how the dumba$$ doesn't know my number when he called me), my ip address (again, if my computer alerted them, how does he not already have this), driver's license number and expiration, social security number, bank routing and account numbers and all my credit card numbers and he will be able to fix my computer over the phone.
I love getting those calls. I let them go on for about 15 minutes to eat up their phone bill trying unsuccessfully to gain access to my computer (all the while pretending to be cooperative), before I finally tell them: "Oh gee, do you think it's because I'm using Linux?" I then get the royal cussing out from them. It's oh so sweet. Fun times. I would imagine Mac users probably have fun with this too.
Lots of funny youtubes on scamming the microsoft scammers. Here's a cute one that's short.
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Plus, I spend too much time on C-D!
I would imagine Mac users probably have fun with this too.
