This brings up an interesting question: who are you on the web anyways? Take my case: I have never signed up for a social networking account on the likes of facebook, myspace, etc. I just don't like to give up that much control about my personal information. To me, just putting it out there, even without the govt snooping on it is giving up WAY too much control over it. Many websites I used to visit have become "social" over the years though but no matter, I don't use my real name there, or real personal email account. On my android phone I purposely created another gmail account, not linked to my real personal one. I have avoided google+ like a plague and I have seen first hand how nuclear they have gone in order to make people enable the goddamn + account. But the question still remains, who am I online? I'm still signing up to sites and email accounts that even if they don't represent the whole picture they still have parts of it. It struck me that it may not matter if those accounts don't particularly link to my real name: it is still me doing all that stuff online. Am I just my name or what I do? (Google probably doesn't care that much about my "name", they're still getting a lot of information from "me". To them all of us are probably just a unique ID on their servers.
I'm not a tinfoil hat kind of guy or anything like that. My efforts are still limited by the convenience of the internet once you sign up to the many services available. People somewhat skilled in tracking people online can probably still track the real me: just because I haven't made much effort in actively learning all I would need to do in order to really hide myself online. I still think that I at least have mitigated it a bit so that not any Joe Schmoe can track me.
First I couldn't review apps on the play store, now I can't comment on youtube wtf?? but still, you will have to do more than that to get me on, google. I still think that they will end up forcing everyone to g+ in the end, at that point I will seriously consider just leaving google altogether.
I'm not a tinfoil hat kind of guy or anything like that. My efforts are still limited by the convenience of the internet once you sign up to the many services available. People somewhat skilled in tracking people online can probably still track the real me: just because I haven't made much effort in actively learning all I would need to do in order to really hide myself online. I still think that I at least have mitigated it a bit so that not any Joe Schmoe can track me. First I couldn't review apps on the play store, now I can't comment on youtube wtf?? but still, you will have to do more than that to get me on, google. I still think that they will end up forcing everyone to g+ in the end, at that point I will seriously consider just leaving google altogether.