Subj : Re: Your Gmail search res
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Mar 27 2025 01:36:00

RM> Yes, and the other thing here is most companies and banks and such try
RM> their best to force you to go with electronic statements rather than
RM> mailing paper.

AT>That's a good point, and I never thought about it this way until now. Before
  >hought "they want to pretend to be tree-huggers" or "they want to save money
  >postage," but I think your analogy is more likely true.

Yes, they do tend to push it that way but it saves them a huge amount
of time and money by doing it electronically.

RM> On that one I'm just about as bad. I prefer the results I get using Bing
RM> instead of Google, but if I start getting targeted ads from them or
RM> something I'd use a safer one like (I think) DuckDuckGo..

RM> That said, possibly I'm just better protected due to my Browser.
RM> I use Opera, a highly modified version of Chrome or Mozilla

AT>I don't fully understand how one browser could be less vulnerable to tracking
  >an another. If there's one that's open source, then I'd like to examine the s
  >ce to see if what it's doing with information that is typed (keylogging, send
  > info to a database, stuff like that.)

Opera first came out in 1995 and I've probably used it since then.

I'm not really sure how the browser sees Trackers although I suppose
it has to latch onto the Browser so there may just be a better reset
done when a site is exited. Adware is probably easier for it to catch
since it has to display through the browser, but I do get a Lot of
sites complaining that they can't send me ads because they are being
blocked and asking me to turn that off, so I know that works pretty well..

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