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Originally posted by Brenda:
Quiet, quiet, quiet. Malls I can see are going to be getting to me for the next month. Too many people.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
Quiet, quiet, quiet. Malls I can see are going to be getting to me for the next month. Too many people.

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My sentiments exactly. FWIW I have NEVER liked malls. There is just too much visual and auditory noise, and too many people. I never understood people who went to malls for fun.

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What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?
Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder at DuckDuckGo.com (2008-present)

DuckDuckGo has been a profitable company since 2014 without storing or sharing any personal information on people using our search engine. As we like to say, what you search on DuckDuckGo is private, even from us! We’re proud to have a business model for a web-based business that’s profitable without making your personal information the product. I’m happy to tell you all about how we make it work (and how other companies can, too).

Though first, if you’re not familiar with DuckDuckGo, we are an Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs. We operate a search engine alternative to Google at http://duckduckgo.com, and offer additional apps and extensions to protect you from Google, Facebook and other trackers, no matter where you go on the Internet.

The Big Myth

It’s actually a big myth that search engines need to track your personal search history to make money or deliver quality search results. Almost all of the money search engines make (including Google) is based on the keywords you type in, without knowing anything about you, including your search history or the seemingly endless amounts of additional data points they have collected about registered and non-registered users alike.

In fact, search advertisers buy search ads by bidding on keywords, not people. It makes intuitive sense, too. If you search for ‘car’, you are more likely to respond to a car ad than something you searched for last week.

This keyword-based advertising is our primary business model. When you search on DuckDuckGo, we can show you an ad based on the keywords you type in. That’s it. And it works. Our privacy policy, in a nutshell, is to not collect or share any personal information at all. Every time you search on DuckDuckGo it is as if you were there for the first time – anonymous.

For example, if you type in ‘dishwasher’ you will get a dishwasher ad.

Google also makes most of their money via this same type of keyword-based advertising that doesn’t require any search-history tracking.

So why do they track it all then? Because Google is not really a search company; they are an advertising company. On Google, your searches are tracked, mined, and packaged up into a data profile for advertisers to follow you around the Internet through intrusive and annoying ever-present banner ads, using Google’s massive ad networks, embedded across millions of sites and apps.

This is why if you search for something on Google, you may start seeing ads for it everywhere.

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Using the internet doesn’t have to feel like you’re being watched, listened to, and monitored.

Google, Facebook, and The Creepy Line

Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and Chairman, famously said “Google’s policy on a lot of these things is to get right up to the creepy line, but not cross it.” But for most people, that line was crossed by Google, Facebook, and others long ago.

Alarmingly, Google now deploys hidden trackers on 76% of websites across the web to monitor your behavior and Facebook has hidden trackers on about 25% of websites, according to the Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project. It is likely that Google and/or Facebook are watching you on most sites you visit, in addition to tracking you when using their products.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey thanks Jack. I did look stuff up to get a flavor.

Personally I don't think BIOS was so broken it couldn't be fixed. And as I've read it looks to me like UEFI is a backdoor onto any system, because, supposedly, one can control a system from UEFI even without an OS (except Linux, which passes control on to the system only AFTER a Linux log-in).

Too much to think about. Brain goes ... boink.

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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Brenda

I don't know about now, but years back the only drivers who were more aggressive than the ones in Los Angeles were the ones in Ontario!

As polite as they are, the driving was like .... insane. I still see in my minds eye a highway with every lane chock-a-block full of cars going 75mph bumper to bumper. It was THE worst driving experience of my life! All these years later I still get the heebie-jeebies thinking about driving there!

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