[GPSCC-chat] Search Engines

[Drew]

Corrections to a couple of links that were misspelled 
http://donottrack.us/, http://gibiru.com/

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Drew

On 2016-02-20 14:24, Drew wrote:
> The reason I recommend DuckDuckGo.com, IXQuick.com, Gibru.com,
> StartPage.com is that they don't track you.  Why is this important?
> 
> Well, we Greens are political activists who are working to overturn
> the status quo, and bring democracy and liberation to the U.S., yes?
> Can you think of anything about that that is likely to get us targeted
> by the U.S. (In)security agencies -- that might get us arbitrarily
> labeled as "terrorists", "enemies of the state" and such?
> 
> We know for a certainty that the U.S. government uses a direct tap
> into Google, Yahoo/Bing/Microsoft, Facebook, as well as forcing them
> (and any U.S. company and they'll attempt it with foreign companies as
> well) to turn over any data like I.P. addresses they have in the name
> of U.S. (in)"security".  We know that.  So why would any informed
> Green in their right mind hand all their data to the
> NSA/FBI/CIA/(insert list of Three Letter Acronyms soup here)?  They
> wouldn't.
> 
> Well unfortunately these small, ostensibly good search engines do not
> have their own technology but instead are powered by one of the big,
> evil search engine companies and share their advertising revenue with
> them, so "under the hood" you will find Google, Bing or in the case of
> Ecosia.org, Yahoo/Bing/Micro$oft.  That means (without taking
> precautions) you WILL be fully tracked when you use these ostensibly
> "good" search engines.  Does that not make them no longer good?  I
> would say so.
> 
> For a longer discussion see http://donttrack.us/ or
> http://DoNotTrack.com or https://www.eff.org/issues/do-not-track, or
> http://gibru.com or
> https://duckduckgo.com/?q=non-tracking+search+engines
> 
> 
> Greenvolution is NOW!
> 
> Drew
> 
> On 2016-02-19 08:42, Wes Rolley wrote:
>> There has been some discussion here on search engines.  I remember
>> that Drew recommended switching to Duck Duck Go.  Now, I read that
>> Ecosia (ecosia.org ) will use a majority of its ad profits to plant
>> trees.  Does anyone have experience with this search engine?
>> 
>> I note that there is an existing "add-on" that will make Ecosia the
>> default search engine for Firefox.
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