11-16-2014, 04:39 AM
"don't be evil" - google
i also do not buy their slogan and believe they are here to do two things, 1) offer great services for free, and 2) log all information for the highest bidders or current status...hopefully not to be misused in the future is not good enough assurance, this may be an issue if your into any issues later to be called controversial, abortion, religion, race, the first, the second amendment, sexuality, or anything in theory. free thinkers or poets have lost their life in history... we know too much power in the hands of anyone has and almost will always be abused by human nature. so they build their services on a false idealism of not being evil, like a joke to throw in future faces?
the first thing i do when i fresh install linux lite is install openvpn (it should come installed!) but one command does it. i rather take my chances protecting all my traffic even if all i do is average non interesting stuff. i think its now our job to make them work for owning the amount of information they want... everything. so a vpn might bring more attention to yourself? don't break the law, its a few dollars a year for a chance at making change in how we communicate and stops censorship via googles, facebooks and others "algorithms". also i hear vpn use has gone up 300% since snowden leaks too so the timing is right. 3.30 a month some services and join anon if you want, i seen 10 dollars a year special this month. i realize most linux users are aware of all this stuff, apologies just hoping to reach one or two who is not.
Chris you can also go into about:config and tell firefox to tell websites you are using the most common os win7 and fix fingerprint issues, may help avoiding needing a plugin... i am unsure if you can do this on chrome. sorry if that has nothing to do with fixing your problem, but am just glad someone else feels google may be more than just great free services with no strings attached. maybe about:config could help but make sure to back up what you change! i use it to get deep inside settings normally not available and remove google stuff too.
gold_finger this video brings more light on issues u mentioned google is part in that most would have never imagined i bet including you and me... but i think people do get what google really is, just ignore it because the services are free and can can do what others cannot. who else can give you free phone calls right from your free email? that saves a lot of people money, only google can pull these things off to ensure everyone needs something from them even if you prefer https://www.startpage.com ...this video explains how they will be involved in every aspect of your life and not only online and how business moves already made long ago, plans too much invested in to see any chance of them ever changing. just controlling more than we can imagine, i believe for us to take their word that it's only for advertisement is foolish, especially what we have learned more public about mass surveillance... which are not used for advertisements in any way! fascist/socialist tools or here to protect us from ourselves? willing or unwillingly not really important, but it seems simply spelled out as dangerous...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ywHp0mFUSg
"he who owns google, owns the world" -quote read on usenet when google was first formed as a search engine, by someone who must have known purchasers were a combination of the largest richest business's and had plans bigger plans than running a search engine. wise well beyond his years if i remember correct google was still nothing then and i took it as a joke then.. literally did not see it coming, they were just a search engine at the time!
i also do not buy their slogan and believe they are here to do two things, 1) offer great services for free, and 2) log all information for the highest bidders or current status...hopefully not to be misused in the future is not good enough assurance, this may be an issue if your into any issues later to be called controversial, abortion, religion, race, the first, the second amendment, sexuality, or anything in theory. free thinkers or poets have lost their life in history... we know too much power in the hands of anyone has and almost will always be abused by human nature. so they build their services on a false idealism of not being evil, like a joke to throw in future faces?
the first thing i do when i fresh install linux lite is install openvpn (it should come installed!) but one command does it. i rather take my chances protecting all my traffic even if all i do is average non interesting stuff. i think its now our job to make them work for owning the amount of information they want... everything. so a vpn might bring more attention to yourself? don't break the law, its a few dollars a year for a chance at making change in how we communicate and stops censorship via googles, facebooks and others "algorithms". also i hear vpn use has gone up 300% since snowden leaks too so the timing is right. 3.30 a month some services and join anon if you want, i seen 10 dollars a year special this month. i realize most linux users are aware of all this stuff, apologies just hoping to reach one or two who is not.
Chris you can also go into about:config and tell firefox to tell websites you are using the most common os win7 and fix fingerprint issues, may help avoiding needing a plugin... i am unsure if you can do this on chrome. sorry if that has nothing to do with fixing your problem, but am just glad someone else feels google may be more than just great free services with no strings attached. maybe about:config could help but make sure to back up what you change! i use it to get deep inside settings normally not available and remove google stuff too.
gold_finger this video brings more light on issues u mentioned google is part in that most would have never imagined i bet including you and me... but i think people do get what google really is, just ignore it because the services are free and can can do what others cannot. who else can give you free phone calls right from your free email? that saves a lot of people money, only google can pull these things off to ensure everyone needs something from them even if you prefer https://www.startpage.com ...this video explains how they will be involved in every aspect of your life and not only online and how business moves already made long ago, plans too much invested in to see any chance of them ever changing. just controlling more than we can imagine, i believe for us to take their word that it's only for advertisement is foolish, especially what we have learned more public about mass surveillance... which are not used for advertisements in any way! fascist/socialist tools or here to protect us from ourselves? willing or unwillingly not really important, but it seems simply spelled out as dangerous...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ywHp0mFUSg
"he who owns google, owns the world" -quote read on usenet when google was first formed as a search engine, by someone who must have known purchasers were a combination of the largest richest business's and had plans bigger plans than running a search engine. wise well beyond his years if i remember correct google was still nothing then and i took it as a joke then.. literally did not see it coming, they were just a search engine at the time!