[lubuntu-users] Google NOT as default homepage

[scrooyahoo at riseup.net]

On 2016-12-05 17:04, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 5 December 2016 at 16:57,  <scrooyahoo at riseup.net> wrote:
>> No hard feelings, you may thank me in a couple of years once you 
>> realise my
>> concerns.
> 
> 
> Your extended answer does not in fact respond to my point in any way.
> It's just a paranoid rant about privacy.
> 

i beg to differ and would say that your rant is bigger them mine.  
Happy? Yours is bigger!

you win!

I loose, but with lots of dignity.





> Furthermore, try not to be so patronising. I think it is very likely

ok if you try not to be hypocritical.

> that I have been on the Internet for considerably longer than you, and
> from your previous posts, I think it is very likely that I know a
> great deal more about it than you. In fact, I have given you advice
> and assistance on this list before. Being told that I do not
> understand is no way to repay that.
> 

maybe i'm the older chap who still remembers the noise of 9600baud
but does it matter? Does it improve peoples privacy?

But i hope you have more years left on this planet then me.

> If you read my sig, you will see a CIX.co.uk email address. If you
> knew your way around the Internet well, you'd know that that was a
> service from the mid-1980s; it was one of the very early online
> systems to allow Internet access. That email address is 25 years and
> one month old.
> 
> It isn't my first. I first got online in 1985.

ok you win, again i guess

> So don't try to instruct me about how to use the web, the Net or the
> issues or concerns about it.
> 
> If you are so paranoid that you don't want to visit Google even once,
> well, go learn how to edit the browser's config file and change the
> homepage before it is first launched. It's doable but not trivial. Or
> remove it and replace it with a browser whose security you prefer, or
> use a privacy-focused distro.

why not try to have more privacy in ubuntu then?
for everyone.


> 
> But do not try to force everyone else to use an inferior search engine
> because it bothers you. Like your paranoia, that is irrational.

sure is, you win again.
I just tried to point at a privacy bug. That you don't see it is not 
that important. But i hope someone else will see it then.

Nothing personal.

But when it comes to privacy then I don't let anyone push me over.

You seemingly care less about privacy then me.

Though you probably do wear clothes, do have curtains and lock your 
doors.  Why stay naked for google Liam?

I'm sure you ain't a bad guy. we just have our differences. But i really 
wonder how you can not see what google is doing?
As you say that you are online since 1985 then you should be the one 
telling me what i try to tell you.

Or does google... pay you? I guess not. but i really wonder why you 
fight for the corporation that stole your clothes so to speak.

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