[lubuntu-users] Google NOT as default homepage

[scrooyahoo at riseup.net]

On 2016-12-05 16:07, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 5 December 2016 at 15:54,  <scrooyahoo at riseup.net> wrote:
>> Would it be possible to have a less privacy invading home page
>> pre-configured
>> 
>> Once we use a bowser, the very fist hit is used by google to create 
>> our
>> 'profile' / personal file / NSA file / KGB file.
>> Why is Ubuntu still invading our privacy?
>> 
>> Why not offer a choice
>> Blank home page
>> Duckduckdo.com
>> Startpage.com
>> Searx.me
>> anything.. Even google for people who think they have nothing to hide.
>> Though a warning might be a humane option as well.
>> 
>> At least don't screw peoples privacy at the very first time they 
>> launch a
>> browser.
>> 
>> :-|
> 
> 
> Oh, come on. Turn down the paranoia. There is no need to register or
> log on to use Google.
> 
> Secondly, it's entirely possible that Google is paying some money to
> be the homepage.


Hmm ok, let me explain...


Oh, come on. Stop kissing googles big fat behind. :-)
it's not about registration, it's about logging the fist hit of a new 
mac-address into the biggest privacy collecting database on planet-E

I don't think Google is paying a single penny. And that doesn't even 
matter. Privacy should NEVER compete with corporate money.
And it is not even paranoia since it is a fact that google makes 
profiles of EVERY user, even unregistred users. Just everyone.

That you may not care that shouldn't put our privacy at risk.
And that someone does care, in this case me, that could improve you 
privacy. Just don't kiss big money's big bottom when there is no reason 
to do so.

Once Google changes it's tune then you no-longer need to call people 
like me 'paranoia' but until then I will use me freedom of speech to 
remind others when privacy is at risk.

And if i do something stupid that is bad for someone's privacy i EXPECT 
no less then slapping my face and point me to my mistake.

We all make mistakes, and progress is in the correction of those 
mistakes.

Google may pay any amount of money to Canonical. But that does not mean 
that canonical has to sell our privacy to Google.

The future is about online privacy. Canonical should know that by now, 
if not, then this was the reminder of it.

I hope I was not to blunt, i just care about privacy for everyone, you 
included. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to create my own 
privacy, and that's why i share my worries about this stuff.

Google's intentions may be good, but the road to hell is paved with good 
intentions. We need more then intentions.

To some I now may sound like a paranoid freak, to others I may just be 
someone who cares for it's fellow man.
For myself I merely share my observations and hope for simple 
improvements.

Using a search engine that does not track people instead of one that is 
famous because of it's tracking. seems like a VERY simple solution.

Just replace 1 link. from Google.com to something else that has more 
respect for it's end-user.

That was all I intended to ask. Though i hope this little post gives 
people more insight in the philosophy behind privacy.


No hard feelings, you may thank me in a couple of years once you realise 
my concerns.