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Old 01-11-2014, 01:35 PM   #16
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Maybe it's time to open a tinfoil hat shop, looks like the demand would be over the roof!
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Old 01-11-2014, 01:51 PM   #17
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The 'stopgap solution' is to use the provided settings for the feature. How is that 'stopgap'? Do you believe Google is going to take those settings away?
If you don't believe that, then I am stunned speechless.
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Old 01-11-2014, 02:00 PM   #18
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Why on earth would they give you the setting to change the feature at all if they were only planning to take it away later?
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Old 01-11-2014, 02:33 PM   #19
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Why on earth would they give you the setting to change the feature at all if they were only planning to take it away later?
Just because I "might" be paranoid doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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Old 01-11-2014, 02:34 PM   #20
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Will they come in purple?
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Old 01-11-2014, 03:11 PM   #21
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Will they come in purple?
No because purple is the colour that resonates at the frequency that the government uses to tune in to the alien network that monitors brainwaves.

I could do you a dark pink maybe...
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Old 01-11-2014, 03:14 PM   #22
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Consider yourself stunned.

I'm equally stunned that you would believe such a thing. Of course I make no promises as to speechlessness
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Old 01-11-2014, 03:44 PM   #23
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No because purple is the colour that resonates at the frequency that the government uses to tune in to the alien network that monitors brainwaves.

I could do you a dark pink maybe...
So that's what those voices are...
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Old 01-11-2014, 05:57 PM   #24
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How will removing the settings that allow you to control who emails you through your G+ id lead to more people using it? If anything that will lead to people leaving.
Awareness of the product and people wanting better integration may lead more people to use Google+. In all likelihood most people are unaware of the privacy implications, don't care about the privacy implications, or are too invested in their Gmail account to find an alternative provider.
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Anyone expecting any sort of privacy in Google`s domain is just naive in my view.
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Old 01-12-2014, 03:11 AM   #26
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Google+Privacy=Paradox

Anyone expecting any sort of privacy in Google`s domain is just naive in my view.
And the same goes for any other online service that you feed information to. Facebook, Bing, Twitter, Yahoo, Mobileread,... The list goes on and on.
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Old 01-12-2014, 03:17 AM   #27
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Old 01-12-2014, 08:26 AM   #28
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Someone getting your email address that you didn't want to have is a huge problem if you are being stalked. If you are being stalked you probably shouldn't be on Google+ anyway, but that's your business. And the stalking may have started after you had a Google + profile.
They are not "getting your email address" - Google are simply delivering a message to you. It's no different to someone here at MR sending you a PM. The sender does not know your email address.
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Old 01-12-2014, 08:38 AM   #29
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Being distinctly old-fashioned (I can recall the excitement of the 2086 chip...) I would expect all those communications privacy settings would be "off" by default, and you have to consciously turn on any one you want to use or allow. I don't use gmail or any other free service; and I don't even use an email client. I work directly in the mailbox of my ISP. Not perfect, but it works for me.

On being computer naive, well, let's be objective: 90 percent or more of people who rush onto the web from their new smartphones/tablets/digital semaphore/discworld clacks are hopelessly computer naive. They have no protection because the default is usually no protection.

Sites like facebook, twitter, youtube etc want you to hang everything out in public because they want the traffic, the more traffic the better, and the free content. They are in effect publishers, whose writers/photographers/etceteras GIVE them the content on which they can hang their profitable ads.

Don't mind me grumbling a bit.
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Nobody is forced to stay ignorant of the policies/tactics of social media. The times, they are a-changin'. Adapt or face the consequences. If you want privacy, be a private person.
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