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I use anti-tracking and anti-ad software, and my browser is set to delete cookies when closed. It can occasionally be a pain (my bank always thinks I’m using a new computer when I log in, and I have to double-verify) but mostly I’m just used to it now. One of the biggest problems with FB for me is that they don’t seem to care at all about their own data security – they’ve had multiple breaches, and they’re also very dishonest about how much data they collect, what they’re doing with it, and whether you control it.
And yes, cell phones both track you and listen to you; I don’t keep mine on my person at all times, at least, but sometimes I wonder what some poor data-sorter at Google thinks about my ridiculous conversations with my cats. 🙂 I also don’t use the Internet on my phone! Just my laptop, where I can apply some protective measures and not link anything to my wallet ID. (Which is why so many places aggressively push their apps: in an app, you have zero control over data settings. It’s also why so many places want your phone number: it’s a unique identifier, unlike an email address.)
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Right now we only have two painters! We really need six.
Because of the Covid thing we are hunkering down in our cave and not hiring new people.
Gina and Jaz are working hard as they can, but we just can’t keep dragons in stock.
We add new pieces to the store as they are finished, but everything has been selling out really quick!Keep up the good work! 🙂 We’re insatiable, but we do want you all to have functioning arms… and a holiday break!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Ooooh, more “Lightning” pieces! Very cool, Gina! I’m excited to see what the green and purple ones look like once they have eyes. 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I dunno why people don’t want to use Facebook, you don’t have to hand over any information you don’t want to….I am not Videl Hunter as my Facebook name states and you only enter in what you want to…..you don’t have to give them any info….and when you sell on Facebook, you can still go through Paypal last I did it, it’s been a few months but I don’t think it’s changed, if it has, I wasn’t aware…..
As a non-Facebook user… If you really want to know why some people won’t use FB, this cheat sheet on Facebook’s decade-long record of data privacy breaches is a good place to start.
This article on Facebook’s use of user contacts to collate additional information on users and even nonusers is a good overview of the kind of data-mining and data collection Facebook does without user agreement, too. If you don’t have an account, they won’t even allow you to see the information they have, much less remove it.
Facebook officials are pretty clear that they don’t believe users have or deserve privacy on social media.
Additionally, Facebook tracks users not just on their site, but across thousands of unrelated Internet sites. Facebook users don’t have a choice about whether to share their browsing history with the company (short of logging out of FB every time before they want to visit any other site).
The “short version”: users don’t control their data on Facebook, and FB’s entire business model is built on selling personal data to anyone and everyone willing to pay for it. (Think about it: why is it free to sign up? Because the money doesn’t come from users, it comes from advertisers. You’re not the customer, you’re the product.) They don’t respect it, and they don’t even believe in it. This isn’t a company I trust with my personal information, and the only way to keep (some of!) it from them is not to use the site.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
A LOUD squeak for production Glacier Pearl dragons, especially Laps!! ♥
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
She’s looking great, Melody!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Adding a grail to my list: my car tire sprung a leak tonight and I had to drive out to my parents’ house in the country to swap vehicles, so I missed the end of the Glacial Pearl Lap Dragon auction and I’m so bummed! If the winner turns out not to love the sculpt or the color, I will gladly pay more than the auction price to add this piece to my collection! I’ve put up an ad in the Classifieds, just in case.
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Nightcrow, your big white guy is lovely!
Awww, thank you! I’m his original owner – bought him around 1998 or 99 at Glass Menagerie in the mall. I think he was my 3rd or 4th Windstone piece? (I know the White mother was my first, and the White Young my second, but I can’t recall whether I purchased the Male or the Emp after that!)
He is certainly one of the kings of my collection. (His “half-brother” the White Rising Spectral is majestic enough to be the other.) 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Wow, Celestial Rainstorm, congrats on winning a beautiful piece!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Here’s my one and only Emperor:
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Beautiful Old Warrior! So glad he has a family member to look after. Retired warriors need something to keep them busy. 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Wow, that’s crazy! I mean, they own Paypal; isn’t that enough control? It sounds like another excuse to raise fees.
I have bought an item off Mercari (a Breyer horse, not a Windstone) and found it was easy and the transaction wnt fine, though Mercari sends me WAY too many emails. Maybe I’ll start shopping there more.
No Facebook for me, though – I’m not willing to hand over that much personal information to a company that’s had multiple large-scale privacy breaches and basically done nothing about it, even if the info doesn’t include my checking account number!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I’m another one who initially didn’t mind them but finds blue eyes really repetitive at this point. (I also don’t have a Black Gold Lap in my conga because of the blue eyes; if it had metallic gold or purple eyes, I’d probably go for it.)
My Lap dragon conga, by eye color:
Blue – 9
Red – 3
Silver – 2
and 1 each of – orange, lavender, yellow, tan, & teal.Considering this conga has a literal rainbow of body colors (and only *one* truly blue dragon), the eye color ratio seems a little unbalanced. I want their eyes to be as varied as their scales! 🙂
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
I love them and would love more but you know… money… can’t always afford another right away!
The continual conundrum of the conga collector. 🙂
Lovely flock of Bantams, and congrats on snagging some new additions!
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
Ooooh, I love all these frosty dragons! This color scheme is right up my alley; I’m going to have to try to win something!
I have to say, too, that both Glacier and Black Glacier would look FABULOUS on griffins… <3
Interested in buying or trading for: GB Pebble Sitting Red Fox in dark grey, Lap Dragon Test Paints (Water Sprite, Glacial Pearl, Opulence, Pastel Rainbow, and many others - see my Classifieds ad), Blue Morpho OW, GB Pebble Loaf dragons in blue/aqua/teal, and Griffin Test Paints (Black Rainbow or Frosted Jade).
