meh faces - whazzup wit dat??
8Is meh doing something nefarious with the time data collected from when each of us click the meh face?? If you hover your mouse pointer over each meh face you’ve previous clicked you’ll see a pop-up of the time at which you clicked the meh button! Also, if you clicked quite a few from the last mehrathon on Dec. 6th, each individual meh face shows what time you clicked it!! (I had 88 clicks that day!). Is there a reason for this?? What is the hidden agenda meh has in keeping track of what time we clicked “meh”?? Should the FBI be called in to investigate?? What say you??
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Nefarious is a strong word.
@ExtraMedium Oops! Should have said “objectionable” instead. My bad. Please correct if possible. Thanks!
@IndifferentDude I mean, I didn’t say it was the wrong word…just a strong one.
Web pages don’t need you to click a smiley face to log data on you.
It’s not hard to log where you came from, what links your mouse hovers over, and for how long, did you click the back button, how long did you spend on a page before scrolling, etc.
I’ve no idea how much meh tracks, never looked into it, but Amazon, for example, logs almost every thing you do on their site.
@OnionSoup I “love” the fact that Amazon allows us to “turn off” things like our browser history. Of course, this just turns them off on our screens but has no effect on what Amazon collects or uses to “recommend” stuff to us. It gives customers some illusion of control.
Dood, come on. I’m pretty sure the FBI already has a file on exactly when and from where you clicked every single Meh face.
@mikey I just learnt yesterday that the FBI tracks every communication on every band of radio wave communications device.
Since 9/11 they’ve installed listeners in every city that records every communication made. So if you’ve ever talked on a CB or a Walkie Talkie, or a Ham Radio since then, there’s a good chance the FBI has it recorded somewhere… Well at least as long as you’re in range of a listening station and noone with a stronger signal didn’t overpower your signal.
@mikey @OnionSoup In 2001-2002, my roommate swore that when he drove by NSA, he could hear some kind of noise that meant they were listening in on cell phone calls. I guess maybe their listening devices were so powerful that they picked up cell phone signals in addition to the faraway stuff they were really listening to? It doesn’t seem like listening in on random drivers’ phone calls while they were driving past NSA would be a very efficient way of catching terrorists.
@lisagd @mikey I don’t think usually they have someone listening to every conversation but they can certainly hijack your phone calls without a warrant using a stingray tower (some police departments use them on the field too).
I’ve no doubt with the radio wave listening, they only actually have a human listening if a computer flags something as suspicious… And with the stingray towers, I think they only set those up to intercept phone calls when they are actively investigating someone (could be wrong though).
It would be impossible to have a human listening to every conversation that ever went on.
Don’ go messun’ wit mah alubis.