[GPSCC-chat] Search Engines

[Spencer Graves]

Hi, Drew:


       In installed the Firefox Anonymox and maybe one other plugin 
recommended by Gibru.com.  Now I'm inundated with ads.  I tried turning 
off Anonymox.  I'm still getting more ads than I got before.


       I may be safer, but I don't feel better ;-)


       Spencer Graves


On 2/20/2016 4:30 PM, Drew wrote:
> Corrections to a couple of links that were misspelled 
> http://donottrack.us/, http://gibiru.com/
>
> Greenvolution is NOW!
> 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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