ATS Compromised - Mysterious Post Editing

[NightskyeB4Dawn]

Most are either in denial, or deliberately ignorant of just how deep we have sunk in the quicksand.

As @"Ninurta"#2 said. Resistance is futile. Even if you go cold turkey and cut the cord, they will still be watching you. They are still in control.

Actually, "going dark" paradoxically puts a spotlight on you, and draws "their" attention TO you. They want to know suddenly WHY you are going dark - what you may be hiding, or who you may be hiding FROM. It actually cause them to suddenly concentrate on you, in order to find out more about you and what you may be up to.

They will then find alternative means to dig into you, your life, your history, and your activities, and they will concentrate more fully on you.

It's just the way a Surveillance State works. They get you to spy on yourself, and report back in.

"We have met the Stasi,and they are us".

It's better to leave a false breadcrumb trail than it is to go completely dark. That allows you to blend into the crowd, and keeps them from developing too much inordinate interest in you.

As an example, I became an object of curiosity because I did not have a "smart phone" when everyone else did. They wondered why it was that I didn't particularly care to be tracked via an omnipresent smart phone link to the Borg Collective. The solution was not to go even darker, it was to GET a "smart phone", and then meticulously control where it went and what it did to reassure them that I was not really very interesting. My smart phone does not go everywhere I do. It only goes to the grocery store, the doctor's office, and home. I have a very boring life... because my phone does not go anywhere else that I might go. I don't turn it off or pull out the battery, because that would excite more interest. Instead, I leave it laying at home, turned on but not moving, whenever I go where there may be dragons.

Turning the phone off or pulling the battery excites interest - It's just a form of temporarily "going dark", which piques their curiosity. So I leave it on, but laying at home, so that they "know" that I'm sitting there watching TV or something, just being my usual boring self. After all, who goes out and about these days without taking their phone with them? Therefore I MUST be sitting at home, doing nothing. Right?

It goes to the grocery store and the doctor's office with  me just like everyone else, so clearly it MUST be joined to my hip like a Siamese Twin just like everyone else, right?

If my phone is at home, and my TV is on serving targeted ads to me, then clearly I MUST be sitting at home watching TV, right?

Nor do I surf the web on it, or anything of the sort. I use it ONLY to talk to people, or to take the occasional photo. Then I make sure they know I am just a boring Luddite, and the reason it's not being used for other purposes is because "I don't know how". Us Old Farts can get away with that, because it fits the stereotype, it fits their "profile" and makes it make sense to them.

Problem solved, curiosity laid to rest. Just another boring day in Retirementville. Don't watch that one too closely, because his life is so boring it could put you to sleep! We have all the evidence of how boring he is right here - one trip a week to the grocery store, one trip every couple of months to the doctor's office, and the rest of the time he's at home watching TV...

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Nice to see another person who doesn't live by a mobile and that they are the smart one not the phone.

Personally, I believe our footprint with those things is all about habit. If we break from our habit, that's what peaks the interest of an algorithm.

Right from the start when I got a smartphone it ONLY follows me out and about when I have taken a picture of g**gle maps on my pc screen and need to find an address when seeking. I don't use it for any kind of online anything. Otherwise it is always switched off and sitting on a table except when I am forced to receive a text with a code to prove I am who I am while logging in to various sites, for an alarm clock or as a camera.

I also have a rubbish signal where I am in the middle of nowhere here in rural France so that's a put off for starters.

Tiny weeny footprint that hardly moves. Flying under the radar so to speak.

Regarding ATS, I have over the years deleted all and any images I had uploaded and given it a rest for a while after the few times I got annoyed at how it was being run and needed to cut the cord. I go back and I start again with a clean slate and then begin uploading any relevant images for my new postings, mainly my art. So I have never really screwed up a thread by creating blank spaces in anything important.

I am a Phoenix. I crash and burn and rise again... lol

I rose here. Nice calm place.

Cheers.

We have had our moments.

But usually it is a nice calm place.