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Searches
Fir? Nothing is Coming up when I search for âoefir bad usbâ
...writes the guy who also uses a smartphone to type
/. posts too.
You know "âoefir" and "usbâ" search keywords won't bring much neither~~(Not even auto-correct will help against for/fir mistypes, being a perfectly valid english word, even a current season relevant one. If you find a "Bad USB" under your Christmas fir tree, you know Santa hates you).
BTW: beside "Bad USB" another relevant keyword to search for is "Rubber ducky"
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Searches
Fir? Nothing is Coming up when I search for âoefir bad usbâ
...writes the guy who also uses a smartphone to type
/. posts too.
You know "âoefir" and "usbâ" search keywords won't bring much neither~~(Not even auto-correct will help against for/fir mistypes, being a perfectly valid english word, even a current season relevant one. If you find a "Bad USB" under your Christmas fir tree, you know Santa hates you).
BTW: beside "Bad USB" another relevant keyword to search for is "Rubber ducky"
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Re:Depends on your values.
OK, how about this. Consider your children as adults, do you think they will be happy that their entire life from birth to their current adult age, has been monitored and analysed and they have been subject to targeted manipulative advertising and many corporations know exactly how to manipulate them. As adults knowing their deepest fears will have been exposed to corporate manipulations, the most vulnerable psychological weakness spread open to be raped by corporate greed. Seriously what kind of individual are you. Do you know how much power corporations can have over the psychology of adults if they have been monitoring and analysing them from birth and manipulating their development to suit that control, this is a sick as fuck and honestly those people should be locked up, seriously and just for you https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck.... Yes, you should stop using Google, they seemingly have become as evil as fuck and at every opportunity, you should switch away, won't be long before people are blocking all gmail addresses because you have no right to give away someone else's privacy and you should tell other's to do the same.
Yes, it is as sick as fuck to monitor people's psychology from birth to adulthood so that you can manipulate their choices and yes, obviously that will include knowing their greatest fears and greatest psychological weakness, this is as fucking evil as it gets. If it was my parent that did that to me, I would be tempted to punch them in the face because I can never get it back, not ever, stolen and given away by the stupidity of truly ignorant moronic parents.
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Re:let's figure out where the real problem is
Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?
There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.
But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.
No, he got in trouble for being a racist cunt. You are trying to misrepresent that because you are also a racist little fucking cunt. Other evidence includes the fact that you are posting on this website for racist cunts for the benefit of an audience of racist cunts.
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Re:let's figure out where the real problem is
Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?
There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.
But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.
No, he got in trouble for being a racist cunt. You are trying to misrepresent that because you are also a racist little fucking cunt. Other evidence includes the fact that you are posting on this website for racist cunts for the benefit of an audience of racist cunts.
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Re:let's figure out where the real problem is
Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?
There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.
But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.
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Re:let's figure out where the real problem is
Sure, let's figure out the real reason why people in sub-saharra Africa routinely get murdered for being penis thieving sorcerers or how the theat of vampires causes public panics. Got a flameproof suit?
There's environmental issues such as disease and pollution, and childhood malnutrition. There's the obvious lack of education leading to the %60 literacy rate, and then there's the lovely cultural habit of keeping marriage within the family. All of which contributes to an average IQ rate of about 70, which by western standards borders on mental retardation. Being borderline retarded makes one more susceptible to violent action by way of wild rumors, I would guess.
But where's the real problem? Nobel prize winner Dr.James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix, got into real trouble for speculating on that. Since step one to resolving any problem is to acknowledge it exists, I'd lean towards the human propensity to sugar coat ugly realities being one of the issues.
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Don't you mean "Truth/Fact GO AWAY" instead?
Don't you mean "Truth/Fact GO AWAY" instead? Node.js Event-Stream Hack Reveals Open Source 'Developer Infrastructure' Exploit https://it.slashdot.org/story/... ??
* That's JUST ANOTHER PROOF/EXAMPLE THEREOF of the DANGERS of "OpenSORES" along w/ EFast too https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... (there are TONS more also)
APK
P.S.=> Now, if you want to continue to LIE to people? That's your business (& downfall, not mine)... apk
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I'm correct on EFast, no questions asked
I'm correct on EFast, no questions asked & here's proof https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... & it IS a real DANGER of OpenSORES'ing code - Chrome itself was turned into a MALWARE because it's code was open to all.
* CLUE: That CANNOT HAPPEN TO ME when I do NOT open my code to all to abuse (which WAS threatened my way by
/. trolls like you but the REAL BEAUTY to your 'threats' is that I KNOW "your kind" CAN'T CODE, lol - else you'd have something to show for yourselves & you DON'T... just hot blowhard air!)APK
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I'm correct about EFast, no questions asked
I'm correct about EFast, no questions asked & here's proof https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=... & it IS a real DANGER of OpenSORES'ing code - Chrome itself was turned into a MALWARE because it's code was open to all.
* CLUE: That CANNOT HAPPEN TO ME when I do NOT open my code to all to abuse (which WAS threatened my way by
/. trolls like you but the REAL BEAUTY to your 'threats' is that I KNOW "your kind" CAN'T CODE, lol - else you'd have something to show for yourselves & you DON'T... just hot blowhard air!)APK
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Re:Sad a job is more important than ethics
The proper attitude to take, is sure I'll do it, how much will it cost, more than you are willing to pay. The proper business diplomatic approach, seriously more than they are willing to pay, so you are not refusing, they simply are not willing to pay your price. The silly bit is, there is no way in hell the government of China will trust Google, simply out of the question, so everything Google does is basically for free and the SIP is gone (Shit Intellectual Property) but of course the shit stains at Google are using China to develop and practice with the search engineer for deployment in the US, EU, Australia, Canada and make no mistake. Stop using Google for fuck sake and use https://duckduckgo.com/ using it for months and the searches have been far more productive, do not miss Google in the least, just use them for maps.
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Re:Build your own ?
It depends upon how Google promotes searches. If Google promotes, search Google for the paid results Google is willing to allow you versus search the internet for what you are looking for using Google, one would be true and one would be fraud, Google is obviously choosing the fraud route. Google should be required to public disclose their search as tainted, controlled and misleading and that you use it at your own risk or they can be honest, simply disclose the search algorythms and disclose how they affect your searches. Google is crap for search, gave up and went https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck.... As it was they didn't like me and made me do anti-robot searches because I noticed and disclosed a pattern in advertised searches (when an ad would appear, the search for that item would disappear below the fold, so you would click the ad, rather than the valid search item, even when searching a specific company name, the company name would be first in the ad section and way down in the actual search and find the buses in this picture over and over again PS what they did was fraud, they were cheating their advertisers who were paying unnecessarily for an ad).
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Re:Duck duck go
Proof?
Their policy is crystal clear.
Nothing is stored, no ip, no user-agent, no identifying cookies, and obviously no js fingerprinting.
And since they don't store anything useful, they don't get government requests for data, as there's nothing to give law enforcement.
When you search at DuckDuckGo, we don't know who you are and there is no way to tie your searches together.
When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.
Because this information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log (store) it at all. This is a very unusual practice, but we feel it is an important step to protect your privacy.
On the scale of things, they make a tiny amount of profit from affiliate links, but again, nothing is passed to third-parties, except just the product you searched for.
Oh, and much of their profit is given to good causes such as open source projects and privacy organisations such as EFF, etc.
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Re:Duck duck go
Proof?
Their policy is crystal clear.
Nothing is stored, no ip, no user-agent, no identifying cookies, and obviously no js fingerprinting.
And since they don't store anything useful, they don't get government requests for data, as there's nothing to give law enforcement.
When you search at DuckDuckGo, we don't know who you are and there is no way to tie your searches together.
When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.
Because this information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log (store) it at all. This is a very unusual practice, but we feel it is an important step to protect your privacy.
On the scale of things, they make a tiny amount of profit from affiliate links, but again, nothing is passed to third-parties, except just the product you searched for.
Oh, and much of their profit is given to good causes such as open source projects and privacy organisations such as EFF, etc.
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Re:Duck duck go
Proof?
Their policy is crystal clear.
Nothing is stored, no ip, no user-agent, no identifying cookies, and obviously no js fingerprinting.
And since they don't store anything useful, they don't get government requests for data, as there's nothing to give law enforcement.
When you search at DuckDuckGo, we don't know who you are and there is no way to tie your searches together.
When you access DuckDuckGo (or any Web site), your Web browser automatically sends information about your computer, e.g. your User agent and IP address.
Because this information could be used to link you to your searches, we do not log (store) it at all. This is a very unusual practice, but we feel it is an important step to protect your privacy.
On the scale of things, they make a tiny amount of profit from affiliate links, but again, nothing is passed to third-parties, except just the product you searched for.
Oh, and much of their profit is given to good causes such as open source projects and privacy organisations such as EFF, etc.
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Re:$1B would change my views on many things too
Proof?
Their policy is crystal clear on what data they capture / store / pass forward.
In short, every query is unique, so there's no way to tie one user doing multiple queries, no cookies, no user-agent capture, no ip, and obviously no js fingerprinting.
They keep advertising to a minimum and instead try to use affiliate services;
but in either case, since they don't know who's doing a query, there's no personal info which is sent.Another thing: since they don't store anything useful, they don't get any government requests for data, since there's nothing to give them.
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Re:Dear Slashdot Users
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Yes...where would we ever get that idea?
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I've always advocated layered security
See subject: It even got me PAID for a security guide for Windows (not expected & nice) 1,000's used worldwide https://duckduckgo.com/?q="HOW+TO+SECURE+Windows+2000%2FXP"&t=vivaldi&ia=web
* So your statement IS based on YOUR IGNORANCE there...
APK
P.S.=> I've also MANY times stated hosts files do not "cure all" (nothing does) - only that hosts do MORE for LESS vs. other "solutions" loaded w/ security issues (DNS/AV) & they speed you up (where those SLOW YOU DOWN) - natively in kernelmode as a filter for the IP stack itself (no filtering driver overhead needed as in AV/Firewalls & hosts work on hostnames (used most in malwares/botnets BY FAR) - many firewalls don't (like Windows native one)) - all for more SECURITY/SPEED/RELIABLITY (vs. DNS down or redirect poisoned OR TRACKING YOU) & even Anonymity (dns request log)... apk
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Re:Advertising
LMDDGTFY. Already done, log ago.
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Re:F Google, use DuckDuckGo
I tried their example of searching for "car", which they claim does not track you. I can't post the URL of the advert as plain text due to the lameness filter, so you will have to hover over the following:
So we have a bounce through yahoo.com, who do track you, "dartsearch.net" which is part of the DoubleClick network, a unique "ad_provider" ID and what looks like a number of other IDs. Also, it's HTTP, not even HTTPS, so now your ISP/employer has that data too.
Finally, the link that you claim says they curate ads actually says
By default, when you sign up for a Bing Ads account, your ads should automatically enter rotation into all of Bing's distribution channels including DuckDuckGo.
In other words they throw up whatever Bing deems to be okay.
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Re:Rape legalized, thank you Conservatism!
Was facts and due process used for Hillary or was she just judged in the court of public opinion? It's not like there were numerous investigations into her, yet the new Supreme Court Justice was screaming about the Clinton crime family.
43% of Republicans support censoring the news and many are in favour of forcing private companies to post stuff they don't agree with.
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Re:Not bad... but could use a few changes
Go to Settings, change your preferences, then click "Show Bookmarklet and Settings Data" to get a link with your preferences encoded directly in the URL, no cookies needed.
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Re:I made the switch everywhere over a week ago
There is also,
Bang searches are the best and a better way to google Google.
images !gi
shit to buy !gs
news !gn
finance stuff !gfPlus, all the best retailers:
stuff !walmart
tools !menards
bolts !mcmasterA little shop that
used to sell books !a
Simply, DDG is better search bar, website, company than Google.
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Re:I made the switch everywhere over a week ago
The keyword search that worked for me:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s...
I am generally unimpressed by DDG searches for many things, especially technical stuff. Too much spam gets promoted to the top of the listings. And by default Strict filtering is set and you only get a few results. In fact, when trying to craft a keyword search I couldn't figure out how to deliver 30 results per page, that is a bit of a problem, even startpage allows you to get 20. And since such a high percentage of the DDG results are crap that means a lot of scrolling. But a keyword search is useful for some sorts of stuff. For instance Google searches are surprisingly crummy for technical stuff because too many old results are promoted to the top. But technical crap evolves quickly, so I just want stuff from the last year or so.
This is my keyword search for Google for the last year, 100 results, safe search off, keyword: gy
https://www.google.com/search?...
It is easy to set up keyword searches (in Firefox, Chrome seems to make it a PITA). Just set up the search any way you want, then bookmark it and then substitute '%s' for your search term 'foo' -
Re:I might try it
https://start.duckduckgo.com omits the DuckDuckGo self promotion etc.
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Re:Someone please tell me
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Re:To avoid the annoying dialogs
What's the difference between https://start.duckduckgo.com/ and https://www.duckduckgo.com/ ?
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Re:To avoid the annoying dialogs
What's the difference between https://start.duckduckgo.com/ and https://www.duckduckgo.com/ ?
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To avoid the annoying dialogs
Like another AC posted above
Use https://start.duckduckgo.com/ instead of the usual duckduckgo url
but you might have to wait for some kind soul to mod it up so you can see it.
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Re:I made the switch everywhere over a week ago
Change the URL to https://start.duckduckgo.com/ and those things should go away once you configure the settings. Let us know.
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Use DuckDuckGo's Onion URL in Tor Browser
If you must use a typical browser, use https://start.duckduckgo.com/ for searches. Better yet, use the Tor browser with DuckDuckGo's onion address:
https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion...
Also use obfuscation addons, of course.
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Re:I might try it
Use https://start.duckduckgo.com/ instead of the usual duckduckgo url
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Re:I might try it
https://duckduckgo.com/ (a use exclusively it, on all my devices
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Re:Come On Google
Would that be like, be good at being evil, be the best evil you can be. It really feels like they are developing the environment for total control and monitoring in China for deployment across the globe, hence delete this memo, the idea so funny, delete this memo, make it disappear from history, how many immediately copied it, probably read it for the first time as well.
Google be good at being evil (they just leave out the last part). If you don't https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., then you are part of the problem. You just know Google is developing it for global deployment, their political inclinations to date totally prove that, don't even try to pretend otherwise. Everywhere their search touches is now cooked up, YouTube, Google Earth, Search, all of it subject to the wills of corporate at Alphabet, why would the government of China be stupid enough to trust Google and the US government to control all searches in China, the idea is laughable. Google will have to show them more and more details to prove validity and lack of US government controls and by then will, why would the Government of China bother with Google, they have all the information now, they don't need Google. Greed driven stupidity is always evil.
Kind of funny to think of the Government of China actively stringing along Google with the big carrot of infinite profit from a billion Chinese people. Google wake up you fucking pack of morons, you are an American company and the government of America is telling the government of China, you will be dominated in every way or you will be attacked in every possible way, you seriously want to sell US government controlled, internet controls into China, you seriously think it will work, don't be that silly but keep trying I am sure sales will be fantastic, yep, uh huh, for sure
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Re:What DDG query finds phone vs. tablet differenc
Not on Android. On Android tablets. Go Google yourself. Or better use a different search engine
My brief DuckDuckGo session didn't turn up any difference between codec support on Android phones and codec support on Android tablets
So you are saying this is a general problem of Android devices. Thanks for the confirmation that Android sucks.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+don't+android+tablets+play+mp4
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Leslie Dewan, How you do'in?
I just love smart hot women.
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Re:Not news
And you are aware that there are lots of ways to alter that header on just about any other system?
FUD much yourself?
Sheesh.
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Re:Don't you love it, when
operate for a long time undiscovered
It wasn't undiscovered. It was an open secret.
In other words, he was pushed out in line with their morals and prinicples, but this behavior ultimately benefitted democrats so it doesn't count?
Why do you strawman instead of tackling the issue? You ignored the initial pushback. You ignored the context in which he was finally pushed out. It wasn't about morals, it was about what was politically expedient.
How is that an example of hypocrisy or tribalism? Trump [..]
What does Trump have to do with the behavior of the Democrats? Not only does Ellison have multiple accusations by women against him, he's also been associated with the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan and an apologist for cop killers.
So? He's a fugitive hiding from US law enforcement. Hollywood nutballs aren't politicians.
But they are liberals.
I haven't heard of this. Is this what you're talking about?
No, I'm talking about this.
How is this relevant? Should adulterers be treated the same as rapists and misogynists?
You know Good Ole' Bubba has been accused of rape, as well as being a serial sexual harasser of women, right?
Oh really?
"Jeong is a great hire for the Times but her tweets appeared to be blatantly racist, whatever their intention."
Hey, look at those great standards! What morals! What adherence to principles:
"Oh man itâ(TM)s kind of sick how much joy I get out of being cruel to old white men" --Sarah Jeong
"#CancelWhitePeople" --Sarah Jeong
"Are white people genetically predisposed to burn faster in the sun, thus logically being only fit to live underground like groveling goblins?" --Sarah Jeong
Whew, that's pretty spicy! I see why she was a great hire for the New York Times.
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Re:Hovering not enough; 8 second delay
Hovering shows the URL. The URL does not imply a document's media type (PDF vs. HTML), and it certainly does not imply what subset of HTML is used. Technically, AMP is a subset of HTML5.
You have that backwards. Imply is all the URL can possibly do, and it most certainly does do that in many cases. What it can't do is guarantee anything.
This becomes difficult when the majority of the results on the first page are on an unwanted domain or in an unwanted format.
Well as the topic at hand was DuckDuckGo, let's use the first few results on the first page, as zero of them are to any domain but what the result implies.
If you'd like to play along at home, go there, search for a common term that the news outlets always have results for, and hit the news tab.
I'll also remove the http so slashdot doesn't linkify them.
I used "political news" as the search, and it goes here: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=political+news&t=h_&ia=news&iar=newsResult #1 "Chicago Tribune" - www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-political-nonprofits-donors-20180918-story,amp.html
See the part before the extension? Amp.#2 "Forbes" - www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2018/09/18/facebook-increases-security-for-political-campaign-staff/amp/
See the last part of the path? Amp.#3 is also forbes so
#4 "Washington Post" - www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/entertainment/tv/political-commentator-schmidt-joins-showtimes-the-circus/2018/09/13/f98fe0ea-b772-11e8-ae4f-2c1439c96d79_story.html
See the first part of the path? Amphtml#5 is fox news which doesn't seem to be an amp page, first one!
#6 "The Idaho Statesman" - amp.idahostatesman.com/entertainment/article218331115.html
See the sub-domain? Amp.#7 "Detroit Free Pres" - amp.freep.com/amp/1250872002
Lots of amp!and now the sites start to repeat so that's good enough.
All of those URLs imply AMP and it took nothing more than to pay attention and actually look. Do you really think those aren't amp pages?
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Re:That leaves just Google scaring users
use other search engine... (I, personally, use https://duckduckgo.com/)
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Re:Ads are too far too.
What ads? - I haven't seen an ad specifically presented by Google (that I know of) for years.
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Re:Just the beginning of censorship
Wait until Google starts censoring what can be seen and said in the West
Why wait ? it's here now
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Photography has the same wording
In photography, you can have a master flash which then triggers other flashes, i.e. slave flashes.
In fact, on many speedlights (the smaller flashes which fit on a camera), the word master is used as one of the options.
If you look at this image, the back of the SB-700 and SB-900 both have the word Master on the selector area.
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Global warming solved!
Global warming solved!
Not only do we get rid of the extra CO2, we finally get the Big Rock Candy Mountain that I've always dreamed about!
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Re:Search can be “sometime twice as fast&rdq
Keh?, why don't you do something about it https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck.... Yeah googles searches have become pretty crappy, ad loaded, biased politically, advertising dollar shifted and really privacy invasive. Don't complain about Google simply stop using them, honestly you will feel better and your searches will be far more functional. Cut google back to maps only, until something better comes along, you know it will, just a matter of time.
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Re:Meanwhile
Simply stop using Google and you wont give a fuck what it does, so https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck..., for a start and there is https://d.tube/ and look Apple and pals are looking to create better maps. As for email, really honestly, we are way, way behind on that, and tiny personal email servers as part of your router modem bit of kit should be the go. Gmail no better or worse that AOL or hotmail or yahoomail, who cares.
The bulk of Google's apparent market dominance is a pure exercise in marketing, it's part of their advertising push, create the illusion of power to up the dollar price of their ads. Google is the people's bitch and will roll over because it has to, the question is why bother, let it make the worst mistakes, whither and die. Best way to really, really stick it to Google, promotes it's competitors and every turn, whilst ragging on it, just grind and grind and grind, fuck em.
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Re:Competition is good
Knowing where a carpark is, is one thing, knowing the best route to access the carpark entry is another, and knowing what it looks like. All they need to do is exactly what google did, drive around with a car with cameras mounted on top, focus on the money making bits first and don't be M$ because Windows anal probe 10 does not win friends and influence enemies and well Facebook is rapidly becoming that dumb fate kid that spies on everyone a dobs every one it, and says all sorts of rubbish behind everyone's back. So yeah, be Apple with a car that drives around and takes photos but they wont be able to help themselves and they will make it Apple exclusive although it would only take just abit more than half a brain to pick https://duckduckgo.com/?q=duck... as the search partner, now that would really stick it to Google.
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Widely misleading? I think not!
So you don't like the amount of "snooping" Google is doing on "your data", here are some alternatives:
Replace your Android phone with another brand, perhaps a flip phone.
Use Duck-Duck-Go for all your internet searches - https://duckduckgo.com/
Change your email provider, or encrypt all your emails - Heres my PGP Key ID - DCFB8830
Use another map provider, like Maps for iOS or your in-vehicle navigation system. People use Google because it works! Plain and simple. If you don't want a company to have your data, don't give that company your data. Lastly, I quoted "snooping" and "your data" for a reason. If you use a companies infrastructure for email, searching, etc, the data you post or receive does not belong to you any longer because you do not own the infrastructure. So Google is not snooping when they collect certain metrics from the data you willingly give them, and since you like the service they provide, usually free of course, you are going to continue to hand over your data. -
Re:You all agree with him you know
Your Comcast analogy is highly flawed. But then, you knew that.
Is it? Is there another "Facebook" that you can practice free speech on if Facebook decides it doesn't like your politics? What happens when Facebook, Google/YouTube, and Twitter all decide it doesn't like your politics, and censors you? Right before the midterm elections?
You have free speech, go talk in the dark alleyway! Build your own social media network, become part of the oligarchy, and then you will have the free speech you desire!
"Democracy Matters: Strategic Plan for Action":
"Generally speaking and simply put, Democrats got clobbered in the digital space. [..] And the right colonized Facebook, which has established a virtual monopoly on information distribution."
"Internet and social media platforms, like Google and Facebook, will no longer uncritically and without consequence host and enrich fake news sites and propagandists."
"Toxic alt-right social media-fueled harassment campaigns that silence dissent and poison our national discourse will be punished and halted."