It's not just location on map's it's location on all apps! One really needs to go into the privacy settings and turn off all the app trackers, and start using a Virtual Private Network even though it will cost you $3-5 bucks a month. Worth every penny! Shuts down ad trackers and all of the other bullshit stuff. Best investment I've ever made!
I'm sure I'm not the only one wondering....... What do you think your wife is doing when her phone is turned off? Relax, just playin' with your head.
"Where were you in '62?" This is not a question that has to be asked any more........... They already know!!!
Hey @BigRedRivi The answer is YES, I will send you a few of my aviation shots from Oshkosh in a PM to you, then you can have a selection to choose from. Thanks from Dennis.
It seems the only people you can't trace do not use smart phones or credit cards. I'm no expert with technology like the guys who grew up with it but I'm suprised what I can find out about someone or where they live, it's eye opening.......Thanks for the backgrounds....
As much as we resent the tracking and all the other shit, gotta admit these phones are handy as a shirt pocket. I can take and send pics for business, check emails, sell parts or cars, all from wherever I happen to be. BTW, I'm an android user. iPhones anger me, they're different. Apps are different. "But Jocko an iPhone is..." and I don't give a shit. I do just fine. I don't need my phone to turn on my washing machine or clean my balls. Ok, if it would actually clean my balls, maybe, but I digress. As to the background pics warden? #11 is the big winner. All kool, but that one, oh boy...
This is going to be off topic... and I shouldn't post it... but, I own the joint so what the hell... It's valuable information for people that care. We are well past phones being the actual issue. They were certainly the route and the launching pad, but they are no longer the driver. I don't use my phone during the week because I'm concerned about the privacy issues... I know how to beat those issues. I don't use it because I value my time away from technology. Companies like Meta laid the ground work early. They proved information is more valuable than services rendered. They gathered all of this data about their users and made a fortune selling it. The only catch was that in order to gather that data, users had to use their service by way of an app or web browser. As those services lose favor, Meta has gotten increasingly aggressive with your privacy. They've done this with tweaks to their terms of service as well as with partnerships with other service providers - mainly in the financial industry. Through these relationships, the financial industry has learned how valuable this data is and how to profit from it. Facebook stole their user's life without them ever really realizing it. They knew where you were, who your friends were, what you were buying, what you were taking pictures of, when you traveled, where you traveled, etc... Of course, they still do all of this... But on top of that, you now have financial institutions doing many of the same things just by analyzing your spending habits and cross referencing those (using AI now) with their other customers and other data they've bought in the open market. Put short, it's too late. What Facebook didn't take from you, your bank, Amazon, credit card companies, etc... will take now. And unless you are incredibly dedicated and pretty knowledgeable about how it works, there is no hiding from it. I see people all the time complaining about PayPal and how they don't trust it and... all this shit... But at the end of the day, PayPal is far more considerate of your data than most credit card companies or banks. Not by choice, but because they aren't protected by the same laws as FDIC banks are and can't risk the oversight. The argument for using PayPal is that you are risking your money not being insured to protect your privacy. It's similar to the argument for using Bitcoin, but with Bitcoin you don't have a middle man willing to protect your money for survival. Sort of simplified, but that's the basics. Remember when "net neutrality" was a hot topic? Our elected leaders weren't educated enough (giving them the benefit of the doubt here) to really understand what it was about and the people that did know weren't good enough marketers to really communicate the basics of it. But a big part of it, and I'd argue the most important part is that net neutrality essentially argued that privacy was currency.... and everyone should have choice whether or not their privacy is to be used on the open market.
Love the backgrounds! Thanks Ryan! Not to further derail the post but what @Ryan was saying...does landlines have the same basic effects as cellphones? Meaning the hearing what you say and track you. Thinking seriously of getting a landline again,only issue the only lines available locally are through cable companies. They run through the modem for our internet not a dedicated "phone line" if you will and no idea if they would help or be just as well to keep a cellphone around
No landlines (and dedicated voice data lines) are safe... unless someone has a warrant... You will find conspiracy theorist that will prolly say otherwise, but... come on man. And all of this data being collected isn't some government conspiracy. It's marketing. That being said, it has potential to be more and despite when I gave the powers that be the benefit of the doubt above, they know the power of it all... Hence the backlash against foreign owned apps like TikTok.
We touched on all of this when I studied Advertising in the early 90s. The CONCEPTS were there but the tools were yet to be developed. We knew the potential but not to the degree that is has developed. @Ryan I do remember years ago when you pointed out FB had the worst user agreement on any site on the net. I chuckle when I see folks cutting and pasting the post "I hereby do not give Facebook the right to use my bla bla bla"
Ok in my best Homer Simpson...ohhhhhh Oshkosh, drool! Been there done that and have the baseball cap to prove it! Started going to EAA Fly-ins when the ol man took me at the age of 7 and watching the P-51 hammer head stall...WOWSERS! Planes, Trains, and Autos, that's me!
There's no money in it... Also, that's not how QR codes work. QR codes are essentially a 2D matrix. It's exactly the same as a bar code - just a different format. So in order to do any kind of tracking via QR code, you would have to have a backend where the guts are hosted. In your example, the QR code is used as a URL for the restaurants menu. You then place your order through a IRL waiter or through their web based order system. If there is any tracking going on, it would have to go on through the POS system or through whatever web based software they are using to enter orders. It would have nothing at all to do with the QR code itself.... Again, QR codes are just bar codes with more room for data. They aren't dynamic in any way once it is scanned. In any case, let's get back to iPhone backgrounds. We have just way too far out of bounds. My bad y'all...
I equate my iPhone with my cat Target. I got my iPhone when they were new, exciting and fun. I got my cat when he was a kitten because he was also new, exciting and fun. My phone is now, as @Ryan phrased it, a "technological overlord" to which I am a slave . Target is now a 22-pound monster, my "furry overlord" to whom I am also a slave . The iPhone has it's uses of course, but it can't catch mice. I suppose in a way, the cat is superior to the phone because if he isn't demanding my immediate attention, he's asleep. I think I'll put Target's picture on my phone as a background just to remind me of my priorities .
My phones have always had this background. My dad in 1938-39 sitting on the front fender of his chopped 29 Roadster in the driveway of the house I grew up in Inglewood Ca.
View attachment 5865221 what?! Are you telling me that phones are going to be cordless one day? Are you mad? That’s preposterous! Cordless phones, ha!
I have a smart phone, at least that is what it's called, unlike most I use it like a phone, I don't surf the web with it, I don't look a fartbook. I don't use it to look at the hamb, and I don't text and I still get more than my fair share of spam calls. I'm afraid people have turned into slaves to these damn phones. HRP
Interesting observations as indicated, that being said, when is the last time any of us can recall, when we actually had coins in our pockets, to use in a public pay phone, which are not as available anymore, as they used to be! No doubt about the element of the term " being a slave to these damn phones" point well taken Danny. But one would have to potentially agree, these damn phones sure come in handy to call a AAA service/flatbed truck, or a friend, when our vehicles break down by the side of the road! And having a phone, can and has saved a lot of lives in times of a medical emergency ( use your imagination in this particular instance) , all of that being said, purely as a communication device, and not as a portable galactic library/encyclopedia, these phones are a heck of a convenient device to have when there is a definite need to communicate! YRMV, IMHO. Please deposit two quarters, for an extra 25 seconds of this extended phone call!
Yeah, like I said, the phone is for MY convenience and I won't deny it's usefulness when needing help. HRP
If you have Google on your phone, they sell your data. Better to use Duck Duck Go for a search engine. Also, keep Location Services and Siri turned off.
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