Re: on-line privacy, google and me...

tuuttuuttuut@xxxxxxx wrote:
Cork Soaker wrote:
tuuttuuttuut@xxxxxxx wrote:
Hey All!

I guess you all heard what E. Schmidt (CEO Google inc.) said about people who are worried about their privacy... He basically thinks that anyone in this NG is a sick twisted perv or a terrorist or at least a vile criminal :-) So after long deliberation I decided to abolish google as much as possible. I installed ghostery(1) and found out who is watching me (quite a few honestly, including Google) and a proper cookie blocker. So that`s that taken care of. Yeah, call me a wrongdoer, I don't really mind :-)

Now a question remains: What search engine to use. First I thought of Bing and considered AltaVista and Yahoo. Problem is that they are all M$. The other possibility is A9 from Amazon, but I don't trust them a lot either... So...
-1- How do you guy`s manage? What search-engine do you use.
-2- How do you keep you're privacy on-line
-3- Did anyone find a 'find-engine' yet?
-4- What`s a good alternative for youtube? (I tried redtube, but the content is a bit unilateral :-)

All feedback is welcome! Thanks in advance!

Gr. Ruud




(1) http://www.ghostery.com/


You should get out more.

In... You mean IN!!! I walk to and from my work (01:15 HH:MM total) each day

You're a real hero.
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