At least for me its not, its about not feeding the beast directly. I jumped to Linux, Opera, and DDG as a way to add a few more cycles and maybe a few more man hours to the mess rather than hand it over directly with Windows, IE or Chrome, and Google. If anyone thinks they can really be anonymous in this ecosystem they are sorely mistaken. I do believe however there are less trodden paths and a little more pains in the rear that can be had, and as a silent protest, I chose to use them.
Startpage looks great, if it is indeed legitimate and not some spook front. Will be giving it a go and watching out for more news about the company behind it... thanks for the reference
I so agree with this, absolute privacy is an illusion. Even if 'they' [tin foil hats on, guys and gals] can't get at the text of your stuff, they can use traffic analysis to get a little insight into some of your social graph. So I also use DDG, encrypt stuff where I can, use Tor, anything to increase the levels of difficulty and make the system run hotter.
Yes, but again, it's all about the the less trodden paths. Fewer people use it, so it has less attention directed towards it from those who would see to subvert the user. I agree that it being proprietary has some concern, but it's all about weighing the pros and cons.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers
something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
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That's all good. I've tried https://startpage.com/ [startpage.com] but I'm not smart enough to know how effective it is at keeping my anonymous.
It seems to keep Google from upskirting my private info, and maybe that's enough.
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it queries google for you
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Also, finally, they might work out that this is foolishness: http://qz.com/92207/simple-math-shows-why-the-nsas-facebook-spying-is-a-fools-errand/ [qz.com] and
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Yes, but again, it's all about the the less trodden paths. Fewer people use it, so it has less attention directed towards it from those who would see to subvert the user. I agree that it being proprietary has some concern, but it's all about weighing the pros and cons.