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Daniel · 14 answers · 4y

Do you think you are spied on in some way?

Of course. Besides big companies like Google, the Big Brother is always watching us.

I'm on the Internet. I'm spied on as a matter of TOSs. Governments do it to, even when they're not supposed to.

Oh for sure. If its not stalkers, its haters, if its not google then its hackers.

Facebook knows what I am doing on google when they surprise me with given commercials.

No way I'm this important that I got my very own glowie assigned, or even online stalker if we're being real.

Always, but the extent is dependent on the "spied-on person". If you make information extraction easy through oversharing on social media for example.

There are some friends of mine of which I'm not even sure if they are real people at all because their net identity is very well concealed.

No b/c I'm not paranoid. (I know the websites I visit and other information about how I use my computer are reported to various places, sold, and used for ads and such, but I think none of that is actually looked at by human eyes, just computer programs, so I don't count that as spying.)

I assume everything I type or open online is being logged in some way, even in incognito mode. also my phone and Google Home Mini are always listening

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