First things first - Google is never, ever your friend. They are the most tangled, intertwined, invasive, controlling, POS company the world has ever known. Once you let them in - in any way they’re virtually impossible to rid yourself of. Believe me I’ve gone to great lengths to do so - and find them still sneaking around all over the system place. If anyone can advise me of how to completely and totally rid myself of that plague of a company - I’m all ears and would be forever indebted. They have nothing but nefarious intentions.
The major benefit to Firefox is that it is “open source” and owned by Mozilla Corp. Unlike many of the others that that are either outright owned or at a minimum have mutual entanglements with the Big Tech traitors. Myself I use DuckDuckGo as my default and primary browser and also have Firefox as a much less used back up - for when DDG is blocked by the traitors.
I tried them for a bit and well, just didn't feel the love.....
I really have to agree with you. This garbage has gone off the rails. One that really annoys me is Doctors - I see a number of specialists for various reasons. Everyone of them has a different portal requiring individual signups/sign-ons. Drives me nuts so I refuse to use any of them with the exception of my PCP - which even in that case does not populate 90% of the information that should be on it. For the most part I mainly use it to email her instead of going to see her.
Brave won't let you set Swisscows as default, so thats a headache. No one size fits all solution any more ... but ANYTHING connected to "G" is evil. Period.
Duck Duck Go recently admitted that they skew their results and were busted tracking; ddg is a non starter. Brave - which was started by the guy who invented Mozilla [firefox] but was ousted from his own company after he had the audacity to contribute to a Conservative political cause - is the go to these days. Braves search doesnt track, but still relies on some of joogles algorithms so your results are skewed. Use StartPage or Swisscows imnso; neither track and you will undoubtedly find something on SwissCows that you won't elsewhere. Startpage is more intuitive, but their image searches are awful.
And to answer the OPs original question, all the accounts/passwords are for tracking and marketing. Simple. [even tho there are often much more nefarious reasons/results than just that...]
Oh, and use TOR on anything that you can/is sensitive if youre worried about it. and a VPN.
Correct! Oh man, is that EVER correct!
It most certainly is - at least, until Google shows up and wrestles control of it like they do everything else.
Yep - although I personally prefer AdGuard these days. Runs clean as a whistle and I never see ads either here on FBBOAdblocker is a good way to stop all that...cr8crshr/Bill
I wouldn’t even remotely go that far - I understood every word said - and just because it’s a car site - I doubt that almost nobody else understood it either. It’s 2022 - young or more mature everyone needs to get in the game and understand at least to a mid-point degree what‘s going on. Good info by @guy gadbois.
As Bugs Bunny usta say, "he dont know me very well, do he?" I assure you Mr T2R9, I am no geek. I am probably the most computer illiterate person on this board! Im a one finger typist - 2 if Im feelin sporty - have NO celphone/smartphone, no 'smart' [spy] devices anywhere and the machine Im on at the moment was given to me. I only let it in the house originally for internet radio and for email, as my long distance bill to a buddy in New Zealand was overwhelming. Of course Ive found many other uses for the atomic abacus since, but I am no IT guy.
@RRDon, On a related note, I make my own sinus rinse. My ENT Doc gave me a formula to use. Consists of baking soda, kosher salt, and distilled water. I figured the ratios, and started making my own a quart at a time. I only spend a few cents a month on flushing my snoot. PM me if you want the formula..
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