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Did you know that MagicJack is tracking the searches you do on the internet, and accessing your personal contact list as well?

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I just purchased an order online for a magic jack with the 5 year add-on of services for an additional $69.99.

I was then looking through some more of the website's pages and found this statement:

"We also collect your browser searches and have access to your contact list."

I had no idea that magic jack was a Trojan program that subversively is tracking your internet browser searches and has access to read your contact lists that you have on your personal computer. This is beyond unreal.

Everyone should be aware of this so I am posting this. You are being tracked by Magicjack.

No doubt there will be people here who will now respond with sarcastic disdain towards me exposing this information and its implications. Just make sure when you respond with your sarcastic venom to include your full name, address, and list of all your internet searches as long as you have been using MJack, as well as a list of all the people in your computer's contact list when responding. After all such information is meaningless to you, and you should have no problem letting anyone have all those details. Otherwise your pathetic hypocrisy is beyond shamelessly unreal.
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Darius wrote: has access to read your contact lists that you have on your personal computer
It's not on your computer. For quite a while now they have kept all contact lists on their servers.
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nailgunner wrote:
Darius wrote: has access to read your contact lists that you have on your personal computer
It's not on your computer. For quite a while now they have kept all contact lists on their servers.
That's why some peoples' contact lists got deleted during the upgrade.
If it were stored on the computer itself that probably wouldn't have happened
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Darius wrote: You are being tracked by Magicjack.

No doubt there will be people here who will now respond with sarcastic disdain towards me exposing this information and its implications.
And no sarcastic disdain. I just don't give a crap. The second I started using Google I gave up all pretense of privacy. Any court, any federal agency with quick access to a judge (all of them in other words), and my ex-wifes attorney already know every place I cruise on the internet. So if MagicJack feels it's necessary to know I look up pics of one-legged pygmies from Borneo, more power to them. I just don't give a crap. It's actually a liberating feeling when you quit caring about it.

Okay, one sarcastic disdain comment. Unless you become famous or infamous in the future, or screw someone over, no one gives a crap where your searches take you. Just more lines among trillions on someones servers.
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lychy wrote: That's why some peoples' contact lists got deleted during the upgrade.
If it were stored on the computer itself that probably wouldn't have happened
No they had that screwed up too. They were disappearing with the old system too, if you didn't make a separate copy of the list and hide it from them deep in your computer.

Edit:
That was why they moved it to their servers, people were having so many contact list issues. As with most MJ fixes, it just opens another door of issues for them.
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nailgunner wrote:
Darius wrote: You are being tracked by Magicjack.

No doubt there will be people here who will now respond with sarcastic disdain towards me exposing this information and its implications.
And no sarcastic disdain. I just don't give a crap. The second I started using Google I gave up all pretense of privacy. Any court, any federal agency with quick access to a judge (all of them in other words), and my ex-wifes attorney already know every place I cruise on the internet. So if MagicJack feels it's necessary to know I look up pics of one-legged pygmies from Borneo, more power to them. I just don't give a crap. It's actually a liberating feeling when you quit caring about it.

Okay, one sarcastic disdain comment. Unless you become famous or infamous in the future, or screw someone over, no one gives a crap where your searches take you. Just more lines among trillions on someones servers.
So this one legged gal? Is her name "Ilean"? :)
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bitstopjoe wrote:
So this one legged gal? Is her name "Ilean"? :)
Crap. I have to add you to the list of people who have access to my searches. She has a normal twin sister whose name is ulean.
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"So if MagicJack/Darius feels it's necessary to know I look up pics of one-legged pygmies from Borneo, more power to them. I just don't give a crap. It's actually a liberating feeling when you quit caring about it. "

YOU FORGOT TO POST "your full name, address, and list of all your internet searches as long as you have been using MJack, as well as a list of all the people in your contact list"

Since I DARIUS
"FEEL ITS NECESSARY", AND YOU
"DON"T CARE"
I am waiting.
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nailgunner wrote:
bitstopjoe wrote:
So this one legged gal? Is her name "Ilean"? :)
Crap. I have to add you to the list of people who have access to my searches. She has a normal twin sister whose name is ulean.
With an Asian sister called Irean..........
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Darius wrote: POST "your full name, address, and list of all your internet searches as long as you have been using MJack, as well as a list of all the people in your contact list"

Since I DARIUS "FEEL ITS NECESSARY", AND YOU
"DON"T CARE" Unreal Hypocrite. I am waiting.
Then you set up a program I want to use, and make it possible to track my searches.

So let me be more explicit for you Sparky. I don't care if anyone knows. I don't care if anyone DOESN'T know. I don't care. Maybe if you care SOOO much, NEXT time you will read the TOS of a product BEFORE you buy it. Take a Valium and relax.
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bitstopjoe wrote: With an Asian sister called Irean..........
You win. I have no more. :shock:
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nailgunner wrote:
bitstopjoe wrote: With an Asian sister called Irean..........
You win. I have no more. :shock:
Come on, her no arm, no leg friend who hangs out by her door?? You know Mat? :)

I could go on but I will stop now too :)
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bitstopjoe wrote:
Come on, her no arm, no leg friend who hangs out by her door?? You know Mat? :)
No, but NOW I'm worried about when I'm going to start seeing some ads on my dialer for websites on 3-legged pygmies from Bora Bora.
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In 2 plus years I have yet to see ANYTHING with MJ related to where I browse.. Do they? Can they?? Will they?? Beats me...Am I concerned? nope....
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Let's not forget the guy in the water with no arms and no legs. We call him "Bob".
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tsmith wrote:Let's not forget the guy in the water with no arms and no legs. We call him "Bob".
Yep next to the same guy in the water, Doc :)

Or hung on the wall, Art...

Sheesh......... How old are we ..... :)
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bitstopjoe wrote:In 2 plus years I have yet to see ANYTHING with MJ related to where I browse.. Do they? Can they?? Will they?? Beats me...Am I concerned? nope....
Exactly. I don't want to make too much light of the situation. I was concerned at one point in my browsing life. But no more. I was stunned what was available just by a general search. Some of these identity places had all the cities I've lived in the last 10 or 15 years. Most of my relatives and our ages. And that was before you paid a penny. Lord knows what you get for the $7.99 fee. The info is out there and there is no putting the Genie back in the bottle. So I just took TWO Valiums and quit caring.
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Yeah, really. If MJ wants to keep track of my searches, more power to 'em. They'd die of boredom. Besides, Google and others have been archiving our searches for quite a while.

Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot, start searching for "George Soros". That'll really elevate your paranoia.
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tsmith wrote:Yeah, really. If MJ wants to keep track of my searches, more power to 'em. They'd die of boredom.

Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot, start searching for "George Soros". That'll really elevate your paranoia.
Watching the Beck special too huh??? Unreal.............
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You've got that right, Joe. :shock:
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bitstopjoe wrote:
tsmith wrote:Yeah, really. If MJ wants to keep track of my searches, more power to 'em. They'd die of boredom.

Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot, start searching for "George Soros". That'll really elevate your paranoia.
Watching the Beck special too huh??? Unreal.............
Not to continue a whole different topic, but talk about a paranoid, Chicken Little, THE SKY IS FALLING, THE SKY IS FALLING wing-nut. I am an avid Fox News watcher, but I had to quit on him.

His "history" lessons got to be way too much of talking down to the audience. He had a pie out once and was diving it up for something. I thought I was in 3rd grade. There are a ton of people that need talking down to, but they are all watching the Kardashian family on a different channel.

I actually had this conversation with another viewer and realized she (no it wasn't Eva Longoria) was watching and loving it because she thought "young people" needed to hear it.
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tsmith wrote: Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot.
I think Darius gave up. He was waiting for a response. And when I gave him one, he hung around for about 5 minutes then left.
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Darius, we are watching you.
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Davidchsw wrote:Darius, we are watching you.
He is busy getting his aluminum hat re-fitted. :shock:
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One more reason to run MJ on a dedicated thin client. Makes all this a non-issue.
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Diggs wrote:One more reason to run MJ on a dedicated thin client. Makes all this a non-issue.
The contact list is still kept on their server to do what they want with though isn't it?
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nailgunner wrote:
Diggs wrote:One more reason to run MJ on a dedicated thin client. Makes all this a non-issue.
The contact list is still kept on their server to do what they want with though isn't it?
Contact list and call history no doubt. But that isn't anything Gmail or your old landline phone company does. My phone company logging my browsing history is different.
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bitstopjoe wrote:
tsmith wrote:Let's not forget the guy in the water with no arms and no legs. We call him "Bob".
Yep next to the same guy in the water, Doc :)

Or hung on the wall, Art...

Sheesh......... How old are we ..... :)
Older than dirt. :wink:
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nailgunner wrote:
tsmith wrote: Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot.
I think Darius gave up. He was waiting for a response. And when I gave him one, he hung around for about 5 minutes then left.
Sure looks that way nailgunner. Hit 'n' run.
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Diggs wrote: My phone company logging my browsing history is different.
I'm not happy about it, to be clear. But if they have sold 7 million units as their package says, and you assume 1/2 have been thrown away or blown up, that's still 3.5 million dongles and web surfers. Multiply that by 24 X 7 X 365, and thats a lot of junk sitting on their servers.

I suppose if someone gave them a hard time, they could threaten to post their search activity. Just isn't going to happen. They are using it on some program to map where to do their advertising. I would be more worried about Google than MagicJack. We probably would be stunned at who's collecting and NOT telling us. :shock:
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Dunno as I thought I saw "Magic" and "Jack" at my backdoor last night.
How they made it to PA from FL I will never know :)
Unless of course they got my address from my browser history looking at the MJ home page.. DAMN MJ!!! :) Noisy little bastards....BUT I used ear plugs and "blocked" them... hehehehe
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"I don't care if anyone knows."

I was waiting for the first pathetic unreal hypocrite to prove my statement. Useless double minded fake nihilists.
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"I thought I saw "Magic" and "Jack" at my backdoor last night"

Number 2 pathetic Magic Jack slave mind exposes himself as the amoral human being that he is as I expected. Hypocrite slave minds are so predictable, shameless unto the death. Accursed.
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"Hey Darius, if you really want to get your panties in a knot, start searching for "George Soros". That'll really elevate your paranoia."

Hey whore of Satan, get ready to serve your master the Antichrist with all your depraved mind, bow down slave and worship your master, slave minded nihilist.

All the pathetic predictable hypocritical responses to the unreal facts about this trojan horse Magic Jack prove how totally accursed your country is and how all of you will not only bow down to the antichrist, but will like the slaves you are obey his every order and demand of power and control over you.

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Going for a swim?

Off the deep end, I'm afraid.
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"Off the deep end, I'm afraid."

Making an absolutist statement are we now fake nihilist?

Pathetic hypocrisy knows no ends.
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Darius wrote:"Off the deep end, I'm afraid."

Making an absolutist statement are we now fake nihilist?

Pathetic hypocrisy knows no ends.
Hey! Not fair! I wasn't talking to you. I was talking to all those pathetic predicatable, hypERcritical, fake nihilists and hypocrite slave minds with delusions of grandeur.

Repeat after me: "I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

"I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht."

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I forgive you Darius. It's the Christian thing to do. But you really ought to see a specialist about that paranoia problem of yours. Seriously.

And some anger management wouldn't hurt either.
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Darius wrote:"I don't care if anyone knows."

I was waiting for the first pathetic unreal hypocrite to prove my statement. Useless double minded fake nihilists.
And I don't care if anyone DOESN'T know. Where is the hypocrisy in that? Tighten that aluminum hat a little snugger. And if you are such a GENIUS and so concerned about all this, I would still like to know WHY you didn't read the TOS before you bought an internet connected device? Sounds like you don't really care, or are just not too smart. I await your response, to quote you.

And if you are going to call people nihilists, you should be more specific. I point you to this discussion,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism

and would appreciate it if you would let me know if I am a

1) Moral Nihilist
2) Existential Nihilist
3) Epistemological Nihilist
4) Metaphysical Nihilist
5) Mereological Nihilist or a
6) Political Nihilist

If I am something, I want to know what variant of the something I am, so I can proceed on instituting the appropriate remedial corrections to my character flaw forthwith.

Just put a check mark by the appropriate number. I eagerly await your response so I can fix this, and like you, start worrying about crap that won't make a teeny tiny difference in my life. I am sooo tired of worrying about unimportant stuff like mortgage and utility payments.
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I was stunned what was available just by a general search
All the info you find on those sites are public record. Nothing more and nothing less. What happened here that they allowed those corporate guys to abuse the system. You have to be careful with identity theft. I am not concerned about MJ.
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Darius wrote:"I thought I saw "Magic" and "Jack" at my backdoor last night"

Number 2 pathetic Magic Jack slave mind exposes himself as the amoral human being that he is as I expected. Hypocrite slave minds are so predictable, shameless unto the death. Accursed.
I too believe in turning the other cheek, HOWEVER in your case the cheek I will turn is lower and you can kiss it :)

Ahhh that felt good...

Must be horrible to go through life without a sense of humor like you. Even God has one, after all He made you didn't he??
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I was just playing with the pathetic fool. He was begging for criticism in his first post, and when he wasn't getting it he tried baiting us some more, desperate for attention. His post was only meant to incite, not offer anything useful. Completely immature and pitiful.

He needs to get out of his stuffy bedroom and into some fresh air. His brain can obviously use it.
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Dang, I can't vote! :(

Well, not until there's a third choice labeled, "My pathetic hypocrisy is beyond shamelessly unreal."

SO many questions that require more than a "YES" or "NO" answer..

:lol:

Ok, so how can we get Ilean and Ulean to join this forum? They sound like a couple of FUN women!
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V-Man wrote:
Ok, so how can we get Ilean and Ulean to join this forum? They sound like a couple of FUN women!
HEY you forgot my Asian gal, Irean!!!!!

:)
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Geezz.....I can't get by that "whore of Satan :twisted: comment. That Darius dude is a trip.

...."whore of Satan".......that's just Wrong. :lol:

I mean, how in today's world could anyone around ANY kind of technology that's, I dunno, up to 30 years old or newer be isolated from aallllllll the gazillion databases being maintained? Furthermore, what would drive one to want to?? You'd have to live off the land, raise all your food, never, and I mean NEVER use any kind of a computing device, no phone, no satellite tv, no DVR, no credit cards, no checks, no bank accounts, no JOB, no NUTHIN!

The price is just too high.
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Trolls like him are typically cowards hiding behind a screen name, and the only way he can feel like a man is to lash out with his childish temper tantrums. I pity him.
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