Free?
By kay lar
@jaylar (722)
Kingston, Jamaica
November 24, 2024 8:15am CST
Everything 'free' online was created to earn money for the owners.
Google sells your information by targeting keywords. Whether you do a search or wrote a private email to your sister, mentioning autism, every site you visit, plus your email account is full of autism posts.
Facebook follows Google in their harvesting of data.
YouTube has become an advertisers dream. A nobody posts some silly video and ads are every few minutes, there's no complaint from nobody because they get a cut. So they post and post, getting mindless morons to 'follow'.
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4 responses
@aureategloom (11404)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
25 Nov
there is a documentary about it called The Social Dilemma. it helped me to understand how it works, but also realize that there ain't much i can do to avoid it 
@aureategloom (11404)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
25 Nov
@jaylar i haven't been using my real name since 2012 (i was a kid then), but i still don't feel safe
i use incognito while searching web or doing anything online. still - not safe. so just accept everything the way it is and go with the flow 
i use incognito while searching web or doing anything online. still - not safe. so just accept everything the way it is and go with the flow @aureategloom (11404)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
2 Dec
@jaylar but there are many other things going on there.
@jaylar (722)
• Kingston, Jamaica
1 Dec
@aureategloom you can download TOR... dark web... no tracing
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.@jaylar (722)
• Kingston, Jamaica
1 Dec
@much2say people are so easily fooled... in my country we created the Lottery Scam where we got names of those subscribers to Reader's Digest... and the call center was in Montego Bay...and people would call them and tell them they won the Jamaican lottery. They had to pay like 6k taxes... on the winnings...
Millions of dollars was gotten from people who don't have the brains to figure out how they could win if they didn't buy a ticket
