Have you heard of Google Badges? All I have to do is enable my web history and read Google News Stories while signed in to my Gmail->Google Account and I could get a badge related to subject matter and keywordssssss… imagine, I could one day hold a platinum badge in Fascinations!!!

Here I am, about to enable my “web history” with Google so they can effectively serve me the best quality websites for free and award me shiny gold stars for all my worthwhile mind blurbs… and I can’t get past the enable web history step (an Internet marketer could potentially benefit by having G-badges related to their verticals).

Let’s just make it clear that regardless of whether I choose to enable my web history or not, Google is still tracking how I interact with the web… especially in Chrome or when logged in to any of my Google accounts or perks… ***I can’t wait for my next post on uncomfortable Chrome screenshots*** but anyway, enabling web history at least lets me access it too!… but probably connects “me” directly to it instead of it being a little more anonymous… I don’t know at what level but here is a post on Google Anonymizing Search Records To Protect Privacy from 2007.

For some reason I want to tell the story of Rumpelstiltskin… through Rocky and Bullwinkle (yes Google, it is a burn from a little ol’web ant you could squash at will).
(here’s the link: Rumpelstiltskin as told in Fractured Fairy Tales of Rocky and Bullwinkle )

Did I mention how much I love the Electronic Frontier Foundation! If you were looking for a place to give all your money to when you die… Net-freeing organizations like the EFF need the funds and make a big impact on your digital private side.