I know this thread is a few weeks old but it is still highly related. I
found this:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/02/what-actually-changed-google%27s-privacy-policy
Maybe it ain't so bad after all. Someone posted it wasn't tho.
Dale
:-) :-)
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I am only responsible for what I said
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
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BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way off-topic, but Baidu was the
reason why my company decided to change our
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
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BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more than all of the others combined...
Somewhat anecdotal, and definitely veering way
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
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BTW, the Baidu spider hits my site more
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Jan 27, 2012 11:18 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Feb 9, 2012 1:35 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Feb 8, 2012 10:57 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On
Hi,
have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Hi,
have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next.
It seems when a company goes public like Google did a while back,
facebook is
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Hi,
have you read googles privacy changes yourself?
I just did - and there is nothing new or unusual.
I read some more on it but I'm thinking about what will be coming next.
It seems when a company goes public
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On 1/29/2012 02:47 PM, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 29 Jan 2012 19:12:17 Dale wrote:
As far as I can tell all that is changing with Google is they are going to
join up in terms of user authentication, hitherto separate portals or apps
they had. I do
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:38:15 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
To turn this on its head ... rather than hiding, is there a way to
create identical browsers that pollute their (google et al.) databases?
Considering the huge number a people using the likes of Google (and no
one has stated that
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 00:48:14 Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both
times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users shrug
I was contacted too, but I think they were
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
candidates with networking and security knowledge, who would be keen to
work for Google at a (relatively) low
On Friday 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
candidates with networking and security knowledge, who
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:59:34 +, Mick wrote:
My contact was interested in someone with experience in high
performance clusters. Can anyone point to a post of mine, here or
anywhere else, that implies that my knowledge of clustering extends
beyond being able to spell it?
You're
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:31:50 +
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:16 +, Mick wrote:
Don't take it personally. On counter-interviewing the interviewer I
came to the conclusion that she was looking for young IT literate
candidates with networking and
Hello!
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I
do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
What about Yandex? It provides a search tool and
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 1:41 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote:
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes:
I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty
unique; no standard set of fonts, for example.
So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 8:48 AM, v...@ukr.net wrote:
Hello!
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:16:01 -0600
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have a better search tool? I don't like Yahoo either. I
do like froogle so that would be a bonus. You know, shopping tool.
Thoughts?
Am 27.01.2012 07:57, schrieb Dale:
Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a
On Thu, January 26, 2012 8:16 am, Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a camera
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a camera on my rig
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 01:16:01AM -0600, Dale wrote
I'm sort of getting tired of switching emails every time I switch ISPs
or there is a policy change. That is why I switched to gmail in the
first place. No matter what ISP I use, I can still use Gmail. Yet,
here I am again.
Years ago,
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote:
BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time
search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they
will not be tracking your email for user profiling purposes. They may
be logging IP addresses but it could
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On 01/26/2012 08:16 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like
Google since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 11:33:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:07:51 +, Mick wrote:
BTW, it seems to me that if you access youtube and at the same time
search Google without being logged in to any of their portals, they
will not be tracking your email for user profiling
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 01:16 AM, Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:56:49 +, Mick wrote:
They can track a lot more than IP addresses, your browser can provide
a lot of information, not just user-agent but installed fonts, plugin
information and much more. There is enough to do a damn good job of
identifying you even when your IP
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
I'm pretty sure it does.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
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I am only
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember
where is was. Somewhere like the EFF.
I guess you mean
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't remember
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 13:50:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot
anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am
completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of bed
before 9am :-O
Ha, ha! A very
Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz
wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you how
much it could glean from even an anonymous session,
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz
wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote:
Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that hot
anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I am
completely unqualified - and not just because it meant getting out of
bed before 9am :-O
Ha, ha! A very
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a
high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you
how much it could glean from even an anonymous session, but I can't
remember where is was.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
I'm pretty
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:05:25 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a
high level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that showed you
how much it could
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 08:22 AM, John J. Foster wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012, at 07:59 AM, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested
so far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help pages and
I'm
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested so
far.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102 tested
so
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Paul Hartman
paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102
Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
conveys INF bits of identifying information.
I think I broke it. I win? :)
Sweet, panopticlick.eff.org got gentoo'd :)
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 16:04:45 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 1,939,102
tested so far.
On 26 January 2012 16:18, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote:
Within our dataset of visitors, one in 0 browsers have the same
fingerprint as yours.
Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that
conveys INF bits of identifying information.
I think I broke
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me surf.
To be honest, I already
Me, I use Chromium for using social media sites or Google services
that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I
don't use it for anything else.
I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of those
services in Firefox. I use RequestPolicy to block all
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 17:11:39 Lorenzo Bandieri wrote:
Me, I use Chromium for using social media sites or Google services
that I want to log-in to. Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn. I
don't use it for anything else.
I use Firefox for everything else. I am not logged into any of
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Lorenzo Bandieri
lorenzo.bandi...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe slightly OT, but what do gentoo-users think about Tor?
As an anonymising proxy, in my opinion, I consider it to be the most
hostile network one could ever use. I would only use Tor from within a
virtual
Am 26.01.2012 11:07, schrieb Mick:
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 08:48:28 Michael Mathurin wrote:
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they
From: Frank Steinmetzger [mailto:war...@gmx.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2012 11:05 AM
This backs me up in using noscript and flashblock. Sometimes I doubt
myself
when I get asked once more why I would use NoScript in times when most of
the web relies on JS. I then say that privacy and
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+,
Opera for Facebook and Firefox for normal browsing?
Yes, I use Chromium --incognito to check
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
different services? Like using Chrome only for GMail, Youtube and G+,
Opera for Facebook and
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 26 Jan 2012 18:09:16 Florian Philipp wrote:
This made me thinking: Does anyone out there use different browsers for
different services? Like
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:16, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz
wrote:
There is actually a huge amount of information available, giving a high
level of pseudo-uniqueness. There was a web site that
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:52:47 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you could achieve the same using different user profiles. For
example `firefox --no-remote -P google` and `firefox --no-remote -P
default`.
Ha! I didn't know that FF can handle different profiles! I better
read on this
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:12:39 +
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:12:43 +, Mick wrote:
Not that Google's profiling of individual's information is that
hot anyway. Last year they approached me about a job for which I
am completely unqualified - and
My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they
already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't.
Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about
you. Who knows, maybe you lied when you posted a story on facebook where
you told
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:47:18 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote:
My first reaction was, why would Google need a CV from me, surely they
already know more about me than my mother does? Clearly they don't.
Of course they do! They just wanted you to confirm what they know about
you. Who knows,
Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 07:59:57AM -0600, Dale wrote:
John J. Foster wrote:
Dale - I've been using Fastmail since 2005. Absolutely no issues at all.
I do pay for the enhanced account.
Good luck
festus
Do they allow encrypted messages too? I looked at the help
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean https://panopticlick.eff.org/
My results from work:
Your browser
On Thursday 26 January 2012 21:29:05 Alan McKinnon wrote:
I've been contacted, and interviewed by phone, by Google TWICE. Both
times the person said straight up they read gentoo-users shrug
I was contacted too, but I think they were swayed by my sig. Anyway, no
further contact once I told
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:38 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 09:34:56AM -0500, Michael Mol wrote:
I guess you mean
James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com writes:
I wouldn't find it at all surprising if gentoo systems came out pretty
unique; no standard set of fonts, for example.
So maybe if you change your fonts regularly it might not be able to
track you - thinking that you are actually multiple
Dale wrote:
Hi list,
I ran across this news item about Google:
http://alturl.com/s7xi5
The long URL is below. I'm sort of getting to where I don't like Google
since they seem to be doing things that I'm just not comfy with. Next
they will want a camera on my rig so they can watch me
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