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Posted on 02/21/2012 6:08:37 AM PST by rawhide
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:08:42 AM PST
by
rawhide
To: rawhide
A lawsuit will come of this sometime I am sure
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:11:22 AM PST
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: rawhide
Google is evil. I wonder how much in taxes this Obama-supporting corporation actually pays.
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Salo; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; stylin_geek; ...
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:12:57 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: rawhide
Ok, so what’s the current best alternative to Google?
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:14:53 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: rawhide
When will people come to their senses and avoid Google and MS?
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:15:27 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rawhide
Which means they are also doing it with Firefox
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:16:18 AM PST
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: 1rudeboy
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:16:57 AM PST
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: rawhide
Anyone surprised by this needs to remove their rose-colored glasses. Google isn't your friend. They're not your next door neighbor just wanting to help. They're not even just a corportation wanting to make a good profit. They have an agenda and that agenda doesn't include respecting your wishes.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:17:59 AM PST
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: rawhide
Anyone surprised by this needs to remove their rose-colored glasses. Google isn't your friend. They're not your next door neighbor just wanting to help. They're not even just a corporation wanting to make a good profit. They have an agenda and that agenda doesn't include respecting your wishes.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:18:09 AM PST
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: ReformationFan
But they’re buying Yahoo, and Bing has its own problems.
What we need is a true Conservative search engine.
To: driftdiver
Yep, unless you’ve installed an add-on to remove them.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:23:26 AM PST
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: Buckeye McFrog
My bet is that somehow someway Goggle and the Rat Party are using the stolen information to formulate strategy.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:24:54 AM PST
by
DAC21
To: rawhide
If Google’s best rationale is that “because Microsoft code is buggy, Google had the right to change that code’s operation to thwart Microsoft’s programmed security”, Google just screwed the pooch!
What an eight-figure pie for Apple and their “friends” over in Redmond to divide!
HF
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:38:58 AM PST
by
holden
To: 1rudeboy
Bing for search. Hotmail for email. I avoid Google like the plague.
To: ShadowAce; 1rudeboy
Dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) and Duck-Duck-Go (http://duckduckgo.com/) also claim they don’t track your activity. I’d really love to see a study of search effectiveness with these, as well as Bing and Yahoo, compared with Google.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:42:28 AM PST
by
Spartan79
(I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.)
To: rawhide
Meanwhile, Google complains back that it depends on what your definition of “evil” is.
Best advice, in Firefox.
Tools => Options => Privacy => Remove Individual Cookies => (remove any cookie subdirectory that begins with “Google”)
Do this every few days.
VERY IMPORTANT: Many top websites now use “flash cookies” that backup user data so it is not deleted when the browser deletes the normal cookie.
Users can delete Flash cookies by going to Adobe’s Flash Player settings manager website:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html
(You actually make the changes to your Flash player on your computer through their website. The image you see is a functional control panel, not just a picture.)
To: rawhide
I came across something interesting that tracks with this article (pun intended).
There is an opt out provision in gmail to remove the ads that are part of your webpage and are specifically ‘tailored’ to match your interests as shown by your searches. If you click on the ‘opt out’ button, you are taken to a page that tells you [in effect] “OK Buster, you can opt out of the ads tailored to your interests and maintain some privacy—but then we’ll just put a whole lot more ads of every kind on your webpage so you better let us guide you.”
What a Hobson’s choice.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:52:01 AM PST
by
wildbill
(You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
To: 1rudeboy
bing isn't too bad. Their search results are good.
Bing I don't know if they are any more conservative than google, but since Microsoft owns it and they are complaining about google abusing users privacy, it seems that Microsoft might be more protective of user privacy than screwgle.
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posted on
02/21/2012 6:53:07 AM PST
by
FreeAtlanta
(Liberty and Justice for ALL)
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