Keith100 Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 To my astonishment and anger, I see that my reviews of products on FS Pilots Shop are reported on Google and Bing. This is a gross invasion of my privacy, and I will no longer buy from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Isn't the review made public in the first place???? And if so, Google can and will index it. It's a review! OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Google knows how many times you flushed yer terlit!:eek: Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingnorris Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Facebook and Google are intertwined. If I google "flight simulators", my FB page becomes riddled with ads for.......flight simulators. CLX - SET Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i9 10850K - 32GB DDR4 3000GHz Memory - GeForce RTX 3060 Ti - 960GB SSD + 4TB HDD - Windows 11 Home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrUnSavory Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Google knows how many times you flushed yer terlit!:eek: hahahahaha!!! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TseTse Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Ahaha welcome to the internet, my friends! If you subscribe to the idea that the words "internet" and "privacy" go together, you are gravely mistaken! If you want to keep something secret or "down low" on the internet ... don't. http://i.imgur.com/iMDlMAv.jpg TseTse i5-9600K @ 3.7~4.5GHz | RTX2060 Super 8GB | 32GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB Samsung 840EVO | Z390 Chipset | Windows 10 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Isn't the whole idea of reviews that as many people as possible know about them? PS: just noticed that CRJ_simpilot had already posted a similar remark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalizzi Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 To look at it from the "half full"perspective, you're famous now :) On a serious note, I understand your frustration, but alas its the way things have gone. Asus P8Z77-V Premium Mobo w\32GB MSATA Caching SSD On-Board | i7-3770K CPU | 16GB DDR3 1600 | FSX Gold on 1TB boot SSD | P3Dv4 on 512MB SSD | 1TB+2TB WD HDDs | 2 Asus GTX660 2GB Ti Cu cards w\SLI | Win7 Pro 64 | REX Full Catalogue | ORBX FTX Full Catalogue | Saitek Flight Control Pro w\Dual Throttle Quadrants+Pedals | 24"+2x19" HP Monitors | 1000W PSU [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Isn't the review made public in the first place???? And if so, Google can and will index it. It's a review! Exactly. All search engines crawl through all publicly available websites indexing everything they can. This is what makes them useful. It's also handy for others trying to figure out what to buy if they can find as many reviews as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted June 12, 2017 Share Posted June 12, 2017 Facebook and Google are intertwined. If I google "flight simulators", my FB page becomes riddled with ads for.......flight simulators. You can opt out of at least some of that. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-ad-tracking Similarly, Facebook's tracking can be cut back. https://www.wired.com/2014/06/facebook-ad-tracking/ http://optout.aboutads.info/#!/ You can also use tools like the EFF's Privacy Badger to limit tracking too. https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Facebook and Google are intertwined. If I google "flight simulators", my FB page becomes riddled with ads for.......flight simulators. You're saving cookies for one. But there are other ways to metric browsers. OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColR1948 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 It can come in handy as well. There was a guy in prison due to be released in a couple of weeks, his wife said on her last visit the garden is in a mess and when he comes out he can get busy on it. So he sent her an email the next day saying, "When I come out in a couple of weeks we can live it up and go on a World cruise, don't worry about the cost because I buried the money in the garden." The next day a team of police turned up and dug the garden over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 Can't tell you how many times I've heard that joke. OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vry Posted June 15, 2017 Share Posted June 15, 2017 So, no more reviews for me. I've had an IT guy come over, and he deleted all my Google and Bing Data, urged me to only use "Ixquick' as a search engine, and put me on a VPN (which erases my IP address). As an additional option, I could encrypt my data using the 'Tor' program. I already use 'Hushmail' as an E-Mail program; it is secure (It's only $30 per year). Cheers. And continue the fight against Google, Bing and Yahoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TseTse Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 ^ Not sure if sarcastic or actually serious... http://i.imgur.com/iMDlMAv.jpg TseTse i5-9600K @ 3.7~4.5GHz | RTX2060 Super 8GB | 32GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB Samsung 840EVO | Z390 Chipset | Windows 10 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Boy the Pilot Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 Whatever is my most popular search topics/words, or whatever I search on amazon, I am 100% guaranteed that the next day I will see ads that are related to what I search. Example, when I'm searching FSX a lot, I get FS Pilot Shop ads, or when I'm searching on Amazon for some speakers or R/C airplane parts, those show up as ads too. Heck, I also love playing american truck simulator, and when I search up that or anything related to trucking, I get ads with trucking. Just the way how things work nowadays. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Bottom line, you have near zero privacy when your on the internet, even in incognito. If google isn't tracking you, the NSA or FBI is always tracking your searches. Your searches are ALWAYS tracked 24/7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 This thread needs a giant box of... http://static4.fjcdn.com/comments/Where+can+you+still+find+quot+tin+quot+foil+no+_5d68347e4eb6b337c101f2aaaf90f2d4.png OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatRace Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 This thread needs a giant ... tin hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 17, 2017 Share Posted June 17, 2017 A VPN can be relatively fast, not as fast as your ISP speed, but certainly faster than Tor. Tor is riddled with problems and I wouldn't use it. You could however use Tor with the VPN. I use my VPN with a double hop and then Tor when I need to do some things. If you use Tor without the VPN, then the exit node can be sniffed. Not to mention god knows who runs the nodes. I know that the FBI has their nose in Tor and so does the NSA. OOM errors? Read this. "The great thing about flight simulation is that in real life there are no do-overs." - Abraham Lincoln c. 1865 An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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