(#hhsmcea) @off_grid_living There is not much one can do, other than avoid putting any of it on places, that get scraped frequently or engage in data harvesting, for some other purposes. You can also check the site . There you can see, if any of your images are already in the scraped datasets, used to train AI. If they are, you can request them, to be removed.

(#hhsmcea) @thecanine Thks Bro, Opera is a Linux OP application, not a browser for Windows OP, is that correct? What do you advise for oldies stuck on WIndows and File management systems, my own Internet Website is based on Text Files, and I use PHP to create the HTML webpages.

@off_grid_living @prologic (#hhsmcea) The Internet Archive are kings at that: see here.

(#hhsmcea) @bender imagine, I named my Nitter instance 'Welcome to Hell', how fitting eh?

(#hhsmcea) @off_grid_living I use Opera. It comes with some basic ad blocker, built in. It's far from a good browser, it's just what I've always used and I'm too lazy to switch. It's probably the same with most browsers on Windows, unless you harden them through settings and extensions.

(#hhsmcea) Thanks for the video link bro, I watched i t for a while, over an hour !! Question, why do IPads listen to people, collecting every conversation we say, and the ads come to our phones based on that conversation. What do they do with all the content, stored digitally for ever? Allow robotic AI machines to talk local talk, like humans do? Are we humans losing our abilities to be unique? Are machines so to take over? I see this as a real threat. I suspect the end of humans as a species is near, and soon robotic AI machines will speak and talk just like humans can. But for now, how does one protect the words we speak and write from machines that steal our intellectual property? Google claims it helps more people search and read our stuff? Hmm? If we forget what we speak after a week, than our words should die with us. I can read what I wrote from aged 17, I have diaries, and my words should remain there, in my books. How does reading a 17 yr old way back in 1970 help a 17 yr old living in a different world?

(#hhsmcea) @thecanine What extreme measures? What about going back to XP as a program software platform, one that cannot run many things in Internet Explorer, or what about Windows 98, now there is a Internet Explorer, that will not allow much. Can you build Internet Explorer machines that have reduced features, like unable to run video content for instance? If you want to run a video, you click on allow, and than switch the ability off? Does this stop anything? Or do I still get download expenses?

(#hhsmcea) @marado please give us a heads up if you are linking to Twitter. On mobile I have no way to know, and I am trying my best to avoid that hellhole.

(#hhsmcea) @off_grid_living By more extreme measures, I meant the things, that Tor browser does. For all that is holy, or unholy, please don't ever return to Internet Explorer - it has destroyed the sanity of enough web developers as is, we can't risk it's user numbers ever increasing - never!

(#hhsmcea) @off_grid_living There is a difference, between scraped data, used for AI training and the advertising companies, who track your behavior online, across sites, to better target you, with more relevant advertisements. These tools also give companies that use this technology, statistics about how people use their sites, so they can deduce, what needs to be changed, to increase their profits - but no AI is involved in any of that yet. There might not be much one can do, to prevent what they publish online, from being scraped, to make some AI, but you can fight against targeted advertising and corporate analytic, by hardening your browser. I think it's best to combine things like: Using adblockers, scriptblockers/filters, incognito modes, settings that delete everything, when the browser is closed, not allowing unnecessary cookies, logging out of services, right after you're done using them (unless you are sure, they don't track you). There are more extreme measures too, but those are a bit of an overkill, for normal web browsing, in my opinion.