<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">I guess this is another example of how I’m
different.  Everyone else doesn’t like
when the Jehovah’s Witnesses come knocking, I do, and I love good Fruit cakes </span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">😉 as gifts</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">.  Everyone else likes to stay private, but not
me.  I completely dislike anonymous advertisements,
for example.  90% of them are a
completely irrelevant waste of my time. 
But Google knows me intimately.  They
know what I want better than I do.  Most
all of the adds I get from Google are almost always exactly what I need, when I
need it.  To me, it is all wonderful.  Sure, they make money off this, but I enjoy
that too, given all the great free stuff I get from Google.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">To me, being so private is just selfish.  On the eff’n privacy HIPPA form they now have
for all the Docs, where it asks who can access my data, I always put everyone,
for any reason, forever.  Before all
this, researchers could do great scientific studies on all the personal
data.  No more.  We could have had covid under much better control,
from the start, if everyone would allow tracking apps on their phone.  But no, all the selfish bastards need to be
private, so more of us end up dying. 
Doesn’t seem like a good trade off, to me.</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 9:06 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I saw a troubling sign today. Literally. The sign was on a bus shelter, <br>
and it was an advert for DuckDuckGo.<br>
<br>
I presume some of you here use it instead of the dreaded G-word search <br>
engine, and it trumpets how it preserves privacy (the advert features a <br>
blurred/pixellated face).<br>
<br>
The trouble I see is that if they are so big now that they're <br>
advertising to the public, they are big enough to be a target for bigger <br>
fish to swallow or subvert. So I'm starting to think about lining up <br>
some alternatives that are similarly privacy-oriented but still small. <br>
Any suggestions?<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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