![]() ![]() Assuming that they choose to, they can pass your IP address along to the google ad server, and get ads tailored to your search history.” If you later visit a site that serves up google ads, that site's server gets your IP address. If you send a query to google, google gets your IP address, and can associate your query with it. He took his notes in our 'interview', then picked up what he thought would be the selling words to me. So liberal I had to choke, then laugh, then cancel any further appointments. At the end, his quote for the work was very liberal. I started listening for the word, like a drinking game. Or 'this, I think is our best conservative approach). In his presentation of his plan for my mouth, he must have used the word 'conservative' 7, 8 times. (this was getting good- I had to keep it going to see where it would go). After the exam I had to go back on a separate appointment so he could lay out my 'plan' for me. ![]() I found out when he later did a full exam (that included the latest technological gizmos to see my head from all angles). Still, I willingly went along, wondering where it would come out. I noted a number of keywords and topics that he would come back to in different ways in his questions. Before he even looked at my teeth, he spent 20 minutes taking a video of me speaking as he asked me very specific questions while taking notes. I recently visited a new dentist (new for me) in my town. And really, all they need to do is hit one hot button for each of us to have done their job. They are often hilariously wrong, but they will also hit on some bullseyes. These data gatherers turn around and throw dozens of marketing darts at us based on who they think we are. This sort of crap is entering every facet of our lives and at this point, there's so much information on everyone, but very little knowledge on how to accurately read the information. People take minimal data, out of context, and think all sorts of things about you and carry those thoughts forward, spreading them among other people, beyond your view - distorted, emotional, self-serving. And it's at this point that I worry that what people are doing all the time is more harmful and unfair than what these computers seem to be doing. But in this case the idea is obviously wrong. But I am a little afraid that the internet is forming significant important political ideas about us, and that this could be used in some terrible way. I don't know if I care that this data flows around and companies attempt to use it with sophisticated analysis that I can't see and couldn't understand anyway (not without my mental e-bike). And: "Users may also log in with their Google or Facebook accounts by using the OpenID protocol." I don't know if I logged in with Facebook, and I didn't think Facebook leaked data when you used it to log in at other places, but I can tell by Quora's suggestions that it is getting its data from Google. What method does Quora use? Wikipedia says: "Quora requires users to register with their real names rather than an Internet pseudonym (screen name)." So I must have registered at some point because I wanted to ask or answer a question and it didn't seem like such a big deal. ![]() This is just one glimpse into what computers are "learning" about me, based on my input, the context of which they cannot understand. ![]() It's just computeristically processing data that I created. But it's not as though Quora is defaming me. That is, the wrongness of Quora's picture of me is obvious. And I brought up Hitler yesterday to say: "If those who think Trump is dangerously destructive are really right and they spend their time consuming Trump-mocking entertainment, they're more like the audience in 'Caberet,' making light of the rise of Hitler." Here's the March 6th post musing about the mysteries of IQ, notably the IQ of Jesus. This is obviously based Google searches I've done in the process of writing this blog. If I didn't know this was selected for me and you showed me those selections and asked me what sort of person do you think this list was made for, I'd say a white supremacist! You can enlarge these 2 images by clicking on them: In the email this morning, I see Quora has ideas about what I might want to read. ![]()
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