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Patrick Powers's avatar

That's not all. If I post something to even the most obscure website this is immediately collected by a Google bot then used. True, it is public information, but such total surveillance is creepy.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Embrace being on The List.

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Patrick Powers's avatar

By the time I found out what was going on I'd already left such an extensive trail that privacy was a lost cause. So I don't bother to even try to hide.

Though I once did try to remove the battery from a phone so I couldn't be tracked. This was possible with difficulty but left such a mess the whole thing was impractical.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I rarely take my phone out with me at all, but don't they have travel bags for that sort of thing these days?

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Anti-Hip's avatar

There was a metal box thingy called Privacy Case a while back that blocked transmissions. (But it seems they went "out of business".) I had one (second hand) and it worked for a while, then a couple years later I tried it with a new phone ... and that was able to receive signal.

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amfortas the hippie's avatar

ordinary tin foil

or a metal coffee can.

a paint can

etc.

merely block the signal.

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Anti-Hip's avatar

If that's true, maybe you can explain how (as I said above) this metal case blocked transmissions for my older phone (while inside the case, with audible ring), yet was able to receive signal from a newer phone. The newer phone obviously had to be more powerful/capable in some way. The case was designed with a metal-embedded o-ring between two enclosing metal shell halves.

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Bill Owen's avatar

Assuming that it not some totally fake product. A Faraday bag will, as per the laws of physics, completely block any and all radio signals, or, indeed, electromagnetic radiation of any kind.

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Bill Owen's avatar

Faraday bags totally work.

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