memory exists to be used, the only problem is if it refuses to give it up. Once (and only once, so must have been a fluke) my fullscreen game of Squad was practically locked to 30fps and showing severe stutters every time it tried to go higher than that, turns out my RAM was completely full and killing Chrome brought back regular performance.
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Chrome does drive me crazy sometimes, I have to use my Task Manager to end it and start it up again, I totally agree about that.
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People seem concerned about the potential behind the technology. A sufficiently authoritarian government can make info gathering truly dystopic.
Which I guess is fair. The US has concentration camps now after all. But I find it difficult to see risk as a reason to avoid the tech or usefulness.
Snerk
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I've never quite understood what "my data" is supposed to be, anyway. As far as I can tell the outcome of all this surveillance is to target ads with 7% greater efficiency, which is more laughable than distressing, given the ever-diminishing effectiveness of ads in an online environment.
Probably I'm missing something.
Probably I'm missing something.
Lexicus
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You're missing the part where Donald Trump's campaign buys a bunch of the data and uses it to manipulate just enough people's minds to win the Presidential election. Far from being a fluke or anomaly that is the shape of things to come in this brave new world. As an anti-capitalist I also just consider it an inherently bad thing that so much of the information we receive is mediated by entities that just want to cash in on the "behavioral surplus."
Competition. There is nothing stopping either side from using that tactic. And I know you don't believe the other side is above that type of tactic,
I don't feel there's any valid reason for the government to have that information, so I do agree political groups buying it's a problem.
Now is the time to switch from Google Chrome? 
It's been spying on its users for years!
How did you fail to make a just desserts pun??
It's been spying on its users for years!How did you fail to make a just desserts pun??
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I tried chrome once a while ago. Immediately went back to firefox because it ate up ALL my ram to the point where i couldn't even launch task manager. Needed to literally pull the plug 'cause my system at that time didn't have a reset button.
Chrome sucks up memory badly. That is one of the reasons I stopped using it. Vivaldi is much better.
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Once upon a time, I took a look at maybe signing up for Facebook. I was greeted with a list of my friends who were already on Facebook. The only was Facebook could have known who my friends were was for them to have mined that info off my computer.
I shot out of there immediately and have never been back.
In my case it's also been a bit of a ‘should have spotted it earlier’ as well; i.e. I should really have checked that the university could issue more than one official ruleset simultaneously while because they are that kind of people.
Once something is on the open internet it's almost -I'd say effectively- impossible to delete. Once the data's been collected you'd better assume somebody's accessing it who shouldn't. You live in the US where there's still an illusion of fairness and rule of law and so on, but personalised targetted attacks are already feasible.
I don't live in the US and I already know that the more information the government has on me is usually the worse for me.
If people want to look at it I must assume that it's valuable. Why am I not being paid for giving them something of value?
Oh yes, Facebook's creepy. Zuckerberg's co-founders and former coworkers have said that he simply wants to gain as much as he can. WhatsApp is on the way to being monetised (for its parent company, Facebook, Inc., not for its users) and on Instagram I've never even been yet, and never will.
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