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