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Randy Barlow posted on Wed, 18 Mar 2015 00:29:02 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On 03/17/2015 10:55 PM, Duncan wrote: |
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>> (As for google in general, I use their search and I spend quite a bit |
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>> of time in minitube and firefox (with youtube's new html5 support) on |
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>> youtube. And some of my feeds are via feedburner, which I think is |
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>> google's too, but I don't have a google account of any kind, |
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>> third-party cookies are blocked and others are session-only (and unlike |
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>> some I don't have a 50-tab firefox going constantly, so session-only |
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>> generally means only a few hours at most), and I'm pretty strict with |
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>> disconnect/request- policy/noscript policies, such that google |
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>> generally gets no notification when I'm browsing other sites, so while |
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>> I'm not kidding myself that they don't have a profile on me, it's much |
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>> more limited than their profile on most users, for sure!) |
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> I also find their tracking practices to be troubling. I avoid their |
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> links, and I do what I can to educate the people around me about how |
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> nothing they do is "free". |
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... And continuing my thought, to cover the biggest gaping hole of |
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omission, I don't have a cell phone either. There's a number of reasons, |
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but one of them is that there's not a sufficiently open option to justify |
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paying the money I'd pay, either up-front for an unlocked and as open as |
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possible phone, or more significantly, monthly, for the "privilege" of |
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carrying a GPS movement tracker every where I go, and for a monthly |
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unthrottled net allowance under my daily average. |
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So no google (or apple, for that matter) tracking via cell, either. =:^) |
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The closest I'm likely to get in the near term would be that netbook/ |
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chromebook or tablet, wifi/ethernet-only, amd64 based and reimaged to |
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gentoo, on the requested-recommend post at the top of the thread. |
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There's enough public wifi (and my cableco ISP provides many too, tho |
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I've not looked closely at access details as I've not had the need... but |
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I suspect they're making use of otherwise idle bandwidth on ISP-managed |
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customer-premises routers, and likely partnering with cablecos in other |
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cities doing the same thing, for wider coverage) hotspots now that such a |
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thing is quite reasonable, unlike cell network internet per-gig costs |
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from what I've seen. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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