Every time you use a G**gle device or open a G**gle application (without having taken the necessary "tech" precautions, and in some cases there are none that are effective), you are as much as inviting G**gle to perform a colorectal exam on you.
Every time you use a G**gle device or open a G**gle application (without having taken the necessary "tech" precautions, and in some cases there are none that are effective), you are as much as inviting G**gle to perform a colorectal exam on you.
How much of that 26 billion dollars are your tax dollars, courtesy of the Federal Government? I bet most of it is.
I’m amazed the WAPO published this.
Bfl
“There’s a setting on your phone and web browser that Google is desperate to keep you from discovering.”
Does anyone know *what* that is? And how to change it?
Can’t read article from the Washington Post unless I subscribe for $ or read free if I give my email address. Here’s ny response ... FO Washington Compost
Google USED to have a reputation for good results. Now the search results suck.
I just got some junk mail from google. They say that my name was chosen at random. From the way I understand it then They want to pay me to allow them to monitor my devices.
What a crazy world.
For most searches Google works fine. For anything political I use the Russian search engine Yandex.
I’m not particularly tech-savvy, but I changed my phone’s and tablet’s browser to Duck Duck Go ages ago.
I use the brave browser and have start page set as my default search engine. My laptop my tablet my telephone and my desktop. I never use Google as a search engine.
One thing I have learned is that younger people have literally no concept of privacy. It is being bred out of us. Also I know old people my age who don’t seem to give a damn about their privacy. I can’t swear but it seems like liberals of any age don’t care.
Got a new laptop a couple days ago and all the initial work is sidestepping as much of Microsoft’s privacy invasion as possible.
Already had mine set to DuckDuckGo...
Forgot I did that.
Google = Be evil
It’s not what you know, but what you don’t know that you don’t know that will kill you.
I set my iPhone Safari to DuckDuckGo - it was easy - go to settings, safari, default search engine. But even if you don’t do that, you can just browse to DuckDuckGo and then bookmark their page. I really don’t see the problem.
I also have Brave browser which has its own Brave search engine as default. I’m sure you can easily change that too, but I didn’t bother - I just bookmarked the DuckDuckGo page and I click on that bookmark when I want to search.
If google really spent $26m to bury this, they sure wasted their money!
One should *never* use the internet in any way with the expectation of complete privacy and/or anonymity. Does not matter what device or browser you use.
Control the information, control the thinking, control the behavior.
There is a war on for your mind. Don’t you dare think for yourself. /s
Every time I change it, it changes itself back............
Bkmk
https://medium.com/@re_53711/seven-simple-steps-toward-online-privacy-20dcbb9fa82
Brave is the default on my one-year-old Samsung cell phone I recieved for my 89th birthday last year...
Since it was my first smart phone (definitely miss that 12-year-old flip phone I gave up), I handed it to my daughter (an IT engineer of some sort) as she had said she would set it up for me...
Turns out that she was busy and she handed it off to my 23-year-old granddaughter (who is in medical school & was home for Thanksgiving) who accomplished the task...
Granddaughter will be home again in a couple of weeks for Thanksgiving (and my 90th) and I’ll get the details from her...