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Re: news from Google
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer () mauigateway com>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:35:15 -0800
--- beckman () angryox com wrote: From: Peter Beckman <beckman () angryox com> At least Google seems to be honest about it. ---------------------------------------------- Yeah, trust them... --------------------------- What does Bing say they keep about you when you search, not logged into your Passport account? IP + searches, date and time? And what do they actually do? --------------------------- NOW you're getting warm. What IS the difference in what a corp says they do and what they actually do? --------------------------- What about Yahoo, now that they will use Bing? Or even AltaVista? How do we know the difference between the reality of what they do versus their Privacy Policy? ---------------------------- Yahoo and Altavista are one and the same. Excite is owned by www.iac.com who own many other companies that collect and make money from knowing what you do. Webcrawler is owned by InfoSpace (www.infospaceinc.com). They are ALL making money doing the same thing. ---------------------------------- You don't get to have Privacy on the Internet. It's a fallacy. You have to work really hard to truly have privacy on the 'net. And lie a lot. ---------------------------------- Yes, you have to work hard and (one last time :-) DBS. Use your sniffers at home to see what's talking to what; manage your cookies; force your ISPs machinery to change your DHCP-assigned address a lot; use SSH tunnels, blah, blah, blah. In FF goto "Tools", 'Options', 'Privacy', and select: "Accept cookies from sites'; 'Accept third-party cookies'; 'Keep until: <ask me every time> just to get a taste. Be sure to click on 'Show Details' when the flood of cookies comes and pay attention to the details. Don't go to sites that bork when you use these settings any longer. Also, look in 'Show cookies' and 'Exceptions'. Funny how M$ won't let you do that in IE AFAICT. scott
Current thread:
- Re: news from Google, (continued)
- Re: news from Google Hank Nussbacher (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google Scott Howard (Dec 21)
- Re: news from Google JC Dill (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Bruce Williams (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Christopher Morrow (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Jay Ess (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google William Hamilton (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Jay Ess (Dec 22)
- Re: news from Google Michael Holstein (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Peter Beckman (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Seth Mattinen (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google JC Dill (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Seth Mattinen (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Seth Mattinen (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Jorge Amodio (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google Seth Mattinen (Dec 11)
- Re: news from Google JC Dill (Dec 11)