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Oh how I hate technology !!!

Those of you who know me fairly well,
no doubt have a giggle anytime I ask daft tech questions.
If for no ôther reason than the answers would be self-evident to your average 9 year old !
As I sit here. My PC is 'updating'....Again !
I'm a bit concerned about the number of big corporations that you have to deal with just to do the simple jobs in life !
I-cloud. & I-tunes necessitate THIS particular update.
This concerns me for as far as I know, I don't use EITHER !
Yet they both want permission to 'Make changes to my computer'.
I'm used to apple sending me 200 pages of nonsensical legal jargon that I have to 'o.k' before being able to use my phone every so often.
But when you think about it, Google; Apple; Facebook; Amazon and probably a few others, ALL want your personal details.
Why ?
Where is the benefit to me in giving you my personal details ???
Yet they ALL insist on it.
So. I avoid Google.
I've left EVERY group I joined on Facebook. I use Amazon ONLY if I can't find what I want elsewhere.
Am I alone in feeling like I'M the commodity ???

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TwiddlerofThumbs · F

Most updates are technical updates. They've integrated new code and the update is to ensure that your product can still function without errors.
It's not a big deal.
As for your personal information, I can see why you feel funny about it. But, your personal information is being used and collected without your permission by much less scrupulous companies. At least these ones are telling you about it.
As for the why? Marketing most often. Some of the permissions are just saying that you are agreeing to do business over the internet and you understand that you are sharing information like name and address for the sake of shipping, from them or a third party who sells through them.
They are not collecting anything that everyone else does not already have.

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Picklebobble · 56-60, M

@TwiddlerOfThumbs: Related or not, I don't care !
I want to be able to use my phone and my PC without wondering who's trawling through my files every update !!!!

TwiddlerofThumbs · F

@Picklebobble: They don't trawl through your files.
I think you have the wrong idea about the information they collect.

Picklebobble · 56-60, M

@TwiddlerOfThumbs: It's ALL an unnecessary intrusion into your life.
I gave up using most sites years ago for exactly this reason.
I HAVE to use e-mail sites both for work and family. They're a necessity.
But disrupting my life in order that I-tunes can do whatever the hell it does just because I use an I-phone is wrong !!!

FurryFace · 61-69, M

tell me about it , i'm always installing free software and i get pestered all the time to upgrade with special offers that i have to refuse , i even turned off win Update because it keeps trying to update these 2 things that always fail to install , f*cking stupid !

Manganesia · 26-30, F

Every other website needs personal details by "signing in"

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Manganesia · 26-30, F

THS IS A COMMERCIAL WORLD WIT TONS OF PRODUCTS 2 SELL 2 ANY1 THEY GET N TO OBTAIN FUNDS

Picklebobble · 56-60, M

@Manganesia: But I can't gain access to their CEO's phone number to ask them to stop !!!
Who's the bad guy here ?

Manganesia · 26-30, F

@Picklebobble: yea I agree tht the companies are responsible bt then we r trapped in our own trap of tech-world , providing comfort yet hav cons lik every other gud thing

Thegreateast · 31-35, M

U r the commodity... there r benefits with it though... personal back up and everything

Picklebobble · 56-60, M

If I thought for one minute that I had ANY info worth backing up, I'd stick it in an address book or download it to a file on my PC.

SW-User

Sadly privacy is dead and it is these corporations that made this happen.

Picklebobble · 56-60, M

Doesn't mean it's right !
I might sound a grumpy old man. Maybe I am !
But if they don't provide anything I want, I reserve the right to not use them !

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

Yeah it sucks but that is reality now... Everyone knows everything about you by just knowing your cellphone number nowadays.

Picklebobble · 56-60, M

And that f*cks me off more than ANYTHING !
Because I now get random companies calling MY phone trying to sell me sh*t I don't need nor have any interest in !!!

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