A Journey of Self Discovery - how the Old Bat lost her mind!

This is a new one on me and wondering how it compares to Yorkshire Gold and Builders which are my "go to" morning cuppas. Is this more of a “dessert tea”?  Something to be had at the end of the day to relax and unwind?

I completely understand that we give up a certain amount of our online privacy when we use “free” platforms like Tumblr and Facebook.  When we look stuff up in our browsers, these platforms are either allowed to monitor our travels (or purchase the data) and then provide us with “targeted advertising.”  I don’t like it, but I put up with it because that’s how the game is played.  

BUT...I think I might just draw the line at monitoring my personal desktop.  Now...I could be wrong but riddle me this Bat-Peeps....

I have several friends from work who use sticky note apps on their desktops to keep track of important tasks that need doing.  This morning, I decided to see if there was a sticky note app already installed as part of the PC package on my personal computer.  

Yes, there is one and I opened it up this morning.  It recommended that I log into my accounts (assumed they meant my Google accounts) so that I could sync across my devices.  I chose NOT to log in because I was experimenting before beginning to use them on my work computer.  I closed the app when I was finished.  One would THINK that would be the end of it since I didn’t connect to any internet accounts.  But NOOOOOOO...

I decided to check my Tumblr dash right afterwards and what to my wandering eyes should appear??....an ad for using Google Notes!!!  The App was connected to the internet enough to know that I have Google accounts and in a split second, Google sold that teeny-tiny piece of “sticky note” data off to Verizon Media (Tumblr’s current owners)!!!  

I just want to know where, when, and IF it will ever end?  Where do we draw the line (in the USA)?  Better yet....when do I start getting a piece of the pie for 3rd party use of my data??  It’s one thing for Google to use my data when they are the one’s harvesting it - but they’re getting paid millions (if not billions) to use that data - where is OUR share??  

In this time of COVID, I can’t even imagine a scenario when I might expose these friends to something I might pick up along the way. So color me sad and anxious that I have to cut a very large part of my life out of this year!!

Imma miss you gize!! You know who I’m talkin’ ‘bout!! @charles-carson-butler and @revfrog

Posted here for @megaoutlanderfan who knew I was working on this tutorial.