I get YouTube adds for nextlight garden systems because my search history implies I’m a professional grower, which I’m not.
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If they decide to watch us later and have access to all this historical and meta analytic data we will have way bigger problems… But short of not using phones and not associating with people who do, I am not sure there is much to be done. I have disabled the FB app (which is in my phone’s firmware) but I use the browser version. I look, but am not active on Instagram.
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How long? It was over before it even started. ALL data gets sent to China.
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EVERYBODY has much bigger problems. Fact is everything including TOR and protonmail are comp’d. This shit is old news thanks to Wikileaks vault 7 drop
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Who da fuq sees ads on anyting? Use these addons on Firefox:
uBlock Origin
Ghostery
NoScript
Aint never see ads again on ne platform. Nobody trackin u.
Also use VPN n Tor Browser.
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Although I’m not the biggest fan of instagram its currently the best place for me to follow some breeders work I realy admire.
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Fck this social media shit its all about buying what others have🤨
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I use it to communicate with two or three people that arent here, tried to convince to come this way but no go so far
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With the exception of this forum I avoid the majority of social media like the plague it has become.
The corrosive, insidious effects of social media are probably impossible to contain at this point.
Ripping apart the delicate social fabric which held us (more or less together) seems to be our collective fate. Human interactions and behavior have been undermined. A coarsening of our culture.
The art of conversation is being weakened inexorably.
And then there is the large scale, transformative invasion of privacy underway.
Just say no.
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I joined instantgrams a few weeks ago…I dont know who or what to look for. Can you send me links or names or whatever of a few…then I’m sure it’ll just suggest others
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Lol love it 
Plus 20
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I dont realy follow anybody who sells beans on instagram it’s more for random picture sharing. I follow a couple local clubs to keep a eye on clone drops.
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give this a read, its really any app that you may have installed or even came stock on your phone that tracks and or can listen in on you but you know, “click yes to understand these terms”
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Interesting article. Maybe next time I go to the grow shop, I should leave my phone at home. LMAO.
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You’re at least a decade late, bud.
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I leave my phone at home anytime I’m doing something important… My brother won’t have a conversation with a cell phone in the room
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As much as people are on every type of social media known to man, to talk about everything legal and not, so are LEO’s. If I can read about it, so can they… and they do it on the daily. They can act upon what they gather from the not-so-smart people that think they can say or post anything with no responsibility and no consequences. If you want to seriously screw yourself over, you just need to have any kind of firearm with you if you ever get busted with any kind of drug. That’s a deal breaker for sure!
Just as in my “old days”, back in the late 80’s/early 90’s when I was running #'s of weed all over the state, I didn’t talk about that part of my life for safety reasons. Obviously, I didn’t want to get busted and talking about that openly could surely do it… mistakes like that can cost you many years in a state/federal prison.
A lot of things are different now, but there’s still a need for having a little couth. Now, like then, you have to watch what comes outta your mouth, your phone, your computer, whatever it is. It’s being recorded whether you believe it is or not and used on, and sometimes, against you.
When taking and posting pics of certain activities, you may want to think about turning the GPS off first, so the pic can’t be used to find that location.
How do you think a lot of grows get busted in legal and illegal states and elsewhere around the world?
Don’t do that to yourself, be smart about it.
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Thanks for making me feel better about my flip-phone. 
Folks at the cell phone store act like I’m 90 yrs old & trying to drive a horse & buggy.
Yeah. I like to pay exact change in cash 
just to confuse youngsters.
heehee
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It’s also fun to pay in whole dollars, just to watch them meltdown when they have to make change. Who knew counting was so hard?!
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