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zeeakzAug 8, 2010
Well, I know Obama, I am not sure if Google knows him too.
ckhhrryissAug 8, 2010
Google knows everything anyway, don't you Google?
mikbunnAug 8, 2010
Meh, it's like four members of my family, five friends, and some lady I tried to rent a house from last year that turned out to be a Nigerian scammer.
sittinsidewayzAug 8, 2010
My social circle as determined by google is currently a blank slate. Thanks google.
coachmcguirkAug 9, 2010
Sure.. Blame google..
paduraAug 9, 2010Submitter
good for you. I am approaching huge number :/ scary...
thisisbobAug 8, 2010
All your information are beloing to us.
linuxbeatswin7Aug 9, 2010
They sent us up the list of contacts
What you say?
birdcatcherAug 8, 2010
My cookies are disabled so i guess I'll never know who Google knows.
damnmanAug 9, 2010
Disabling cookies does little in preventing google from tracking your activities within their networks or networks that use their ad syndications.(you connected to googles server hitting diggs front page with a ref telling googles ad server what website connected you) DHCP may technically mean "dynamic" but ISPs use really long lease times. I've seen plenty of customer ISPs with a DHCP addresses that lasted YEARS. A Cookies only advantage for tracking is that it gets around NATs(one public IP - small home networks etc) and if the IP address DOES change it wont effect the tracking.
IP tracking has its own advantages over cookies. It has no limitations on domain structure, User settings, or web coding. In fact at this point its almost a safer bet that someone will have a near-forever DHCP lease on an address than they will have cookies enabled, anti ad software, scrubbers, etc.
Your only real recourse is to either block all of googles addressing space, and most likely break a huge portion of the internet. Or obfuscate your actions with an open Wireless AP and/or random google chatter bots.
Then of course there are "supercookies". Any Flash/Silverlight/Java application, ad banner, or embedded video you see has COM access to your machine for tracking well beyond either IP or cookie tracking as any of these applications has complete access to the entire COM space including other applications COM items. So google can see microsoft COM objects from the youtube player, Sun can see gayporn.com's animated cumshot banner from their embedded java updater app. etc. All while being run from an external application(plug-in) to the browser so your cookie/privacy settings have no effect.
Have fun.
birdcatcherAug 9, 2010
Damn man.
spiritsceneAug 9, 2010
wow that is a lot of info... but BirdCatcher, you could also add a little bit extra security by adding the following to your localhost file
127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 google-analytics.com
127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
This blocks out analytics references which most small/large websites rely on to analyze their visitors!
paduraAug 9, 2010Submitter
thanks for explanation
linuxbeatswin7Aug 9, 2010
I wonder how this compares in a Windows vs. Mac vs. Linux machine?
RegretfulMorningAug 8, 2010
tl:dr
sepelesterAug 9, 2010
I'm sorry, your post is too short and uninformative, I skipped reading reading it altogether although I logged in to make sure you knew through this post.
loconetAug 8, 2010
wow! Google knows my gmail address book! These evil doers must be stopped!
/s
brothercheAug 8, 2010
Google Sets used to be able to produce a list of people associated with you. They seem to have disabled it somehow so it's not as powerful.
This new Google Social Circle & Social Content seems to be just another avenue of potential -- sure it seems innocuous right now in public, but I guarantee it has more information it could share than it's giving away.
nonamesleftAug 8, 2010
I just tried and got:
# Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (6, 6 with content)
# Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile (98)
# Secondary connections (3047) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
Apart from the fact I don;t have many direct friends, I find it interesting to see how this could lead to 6 degrees of separation, as each connection is an order or several of magnitude larger than the one before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation
kwcarpenterAug 9, 2010
Hmm ...
Direct connections from your Google chat buddies and contacts (12, 1 with content)
Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile (0)
Secondary connections (0) that are publicly associated with your direct connections
Interesting ... I wonder why that is?
mabakerbrakerAug 8, 2010
Google is GOD. I will suck his c**k till I can take no more. / Google drone
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
I tried it and got:
"Your social circle as determined by Google is currently a blank slate"
Good, let's just keep it that way.
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crazystarAug 8, 2010
should show who google does not know that I know...well then i guess it will be a blank page.
evariAug 8, 2010
I'm just glad I stopped using Google stuff a long time ago.
dabestdefenseAug 8, 2010
What do you use instead?
soleanthiaAug 9, 2010
Ask Jeeves?
evariAug 9, 2010
Bing, iPhone, my own email server. Do they do anything else worthwhile?
dabestdefenseAug 10, 2010
Okay so Bing for search and maps. iPhone instead of Android. Your own emails server instead of Gmail.
Interesting, rare that you see someone tout Microsoft and Apple solutions over Google. What do you have against Google?
A Calendar with cloud syncing is nice, you have an alternative for Google Calendars?
GTalk for Jabber/XMPP server, but if you run your own email server you can run a Jabber server for sure.
Google Reader is nice, but RSS feed readers are a dime a dozen. It is nice to be able to access my feeds from my phone and from any browser wherever vs being stuck to a desktop client. But I assume there are PHP/MySQL feed readers you could run from your own server that would serve the same purpose.
Google Docs is not really worth it.
Google Voice is pretty nice, transcribed voicemails, voice recording, central phone number, it solves all the traditional problems with POTS that we should not be still dealing with today. Have an alternative for that, or no need?
Google Checkout is nice, I prefer it as an option to give online retailers my info. But not everyone supports it, I wish they did. Might as well just Google has my credit card info they a bunch of sketchy places.
There are a handful of other Google services from Photo storage to shopping and video, but alternatives are obvious.
How are you hosting the email server? Your own hardware and a internet connection at home? A hosting provider? I worry about up-time a bit but my host has not been to bad, but worse than Gmail. I enjoy the Gmail web client a little to much perhaps and would not mind an open alternative.
I dugg your original comment up, just curious if Google screwed you over because it seems liek there is a bit of hostility. As much as I love Google I would also love being free of them. But Apple and Microsoft that is like going out of the frying pan, into the fire!
brothercheAug 8, 2010
Had any of you used Google Sets a few years back (like 2004 or so)? It was simpler in its source of data and rather powerful.
It creates general sets of information based on info you put in. For instance, "Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday, Isaac Newton" would return a set including something like "Robert Oppenheimer, Nikola Tesla, Stephen Hawking".
However, this also worked for current people like you and me. I submitted a few friends' names, and it came back with a whole list of people, some I didn't know but a lot I did! It seemed to be able take info from some google database or search system and distinguish not only the parts of speech and tense, but also proper names! And I could tell those names weren't just from a single source page, so it had to have gathered the info
But that Labs project has since been dumbed down.
Closed AccountAug 8, 2010
Oh wow, Google read my GMail contacts. Amazing.
xnotionAug 8, 2010
Wow, Google knows who I talked to... using Google services. I'm amazed.
/s
sixthreeAug 8, 2010
f**k google
asrrin29Aug 8, 2010
Considering I use Android and gmail, and have all of the personal info of 90+ contacts on my phone, it shows that I only have 4 personal contacts and 0 secondary. I think google is doing something wrong.
bizchrisAug 9, 2010
Funny, I learned a friend of mine's Digg account from this - and I'm frightened vice versa if anyone in my "real world" connections were to read some of my Digg posts. ;-)
osabr22000Aug 9, 2010
Your mom.
anneonimousAug 9, 2010
Google knows me by one made up name, and other sites know me by other names. When a search engine is able to link all of the misinformation I've given out to my real identity, then I would be nervous.
djgump35Aug 9, 2010
Wow, google knows my wife, and a place I applied for a job, and two random people. I don't think they are trying hard enough, I could probably google more than that about myself.
meddelemAug 9, 2010
So why isnt The Google sending me Local Job Offers.. I mean, If it knows what I'm good at, what I'm interested in, Age, Location, Etc..
Perhaps Google Will Become Self-Aware @ 12 / 20, 2012, 12:02