Posted on 11/12/2023 8:51:26 AM PST by Paal Gulli
Every time you use a G**gle device or open a G**gle application (without having taken the necessary "tech" precautions, and in some cases there are none that are effective), you are as much as inviting G**gle to perform a colorectal exam on you.
How much of that 26 billion dollars are your tax dollars, courtesy of the Federal Government? I bet most of it is.
I’m amazed the WAPO published this.
Bfl
“There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering.”
Does anyone know *what* that is? And how to change it?
“I’m amazed the WAPO published this.”
They want their cut to stay quiet.
Can’t read article from the Washington Post unless I subscribe for $ or read free if I give my email address. Here’s ny response ... FO Washington Compost
Settings->Search Engine. On both Linux and Android Chrome +derivatives. Probably Windows, too. The fact that they find it hard to change says more about the WAPO than anything else.
News you can’t use.
Google USED to have a reputation for good results. Now the search results suck.
I just got some junk mail from google. They say that my name was chosen at random. From the way I understand it then They want to pay me to allow them to monitor my devices.
What a crazy world.
“The fact that they find it hard to change says more about the WAPO than anything else.”
Was going to post the same thing. If someone wants to use a search engine other than Google on their iPhone or android device or PC or Mac or tablet, it’s ridiculously easy to do so and I suspect that the average user could figure out at least one method of doing so within approximately 1 minute if said user were so inclined. The WaPo is grossly exaggerating here.
For most searches Google works fine. For anything political I use the Russian search engine Yandex.
I’m not particularly tech-savvy, but I changed my phone’s and tablet’s browser to Duck Duck Go ages ago.
Default search engine. It’s not that hard to change.
Zero.
I’m not particularly tech-savvy, but I changed my phone’s and tablet’s browser to Duck Duck Go ages ago.
Same here.
All of it considering Google IS our government intelligence agency. It’s the CIA, NSA and about another dozen alphabets all rolled into one.
Duck Duck Go search results are delivered by Microsoft Bing. So if you trust Bill Gates and Satya Nadella, you’re fine.
I use the brave browser and have start page set as my default search engine. My laptop my tablet my telephone and my desktop. I never use Google as a search engine.
One thing I have learned is that younger people have literally no concept of privacy. It is being bred out of us. Also I know old people my age who don’t seem to give a damn about their privacy. I can’t swear but it seems like liberals of any age don’t care.
Got a new laptop a couple days ago and all the initial work is sidestepping as much of Microsoft’s privacy invasion as possible.
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