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| wisc_natureboy I pee outside.  User ID: 26845876  United States11/02/2012 12:01 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Wash User ID: 6406905  Canada11/02/2012 12:09 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Your privacy is under attack! Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose - then they store that information in a giant database. Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, black-hat hackers and criminals - all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data [link to startpage.com] [link to startpage.com (secure)] Yikes! That is some f**ked up shiz! How is it legal to capture and store my info without my consent? Roll Tide Roll. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26580927 Canada11/02/2012 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Your privacy is under attack! Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose - then they store that information in a giant database. Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, black-hat hackers and criminals - all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data [link to startpage.com] [link to startpage.com (secure)] Yikes! That is some f**ked up shiz! How is it legal to capture and store my info without my consent?  |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26580927 Canada11/02/2012 12:10 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 24002333 United States11/02/2012 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26719373  Portugal11/02/2012 12:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26835751  Australia11/02/2012 12:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26580927 Canada11/02/2012 12:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26835751 Australia11/02/2012 12:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | things just take a lil more looking, but really its good they arent like google because every site owner (everyone with a site does this anyway)knows how to drop words for SEO so their site gets listed at the top. Some sites pay their memebers to use certain words or key phrases so the site comes up top in a goggle search, but fact it, whats actually on that site may have very little to do with the words searched for. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10777372  Finland11/02/2012 12:20 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Sneetch User ID: 14967850 United States11/02/2012 12:20 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Basically, what OP is saying: [link to dontrack.us] We were meant to live for so much more, have we lost ourselves? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 10097155 United States11/02/2012 12:48 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20293530 United States11/02/2012 01:27 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Your privacy is under attack! Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose - then they store that information in a giant database. Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, black-hat hackers and criminals - all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data [link to startpage.com] [link to startpage.com (secure)] I've been thinking for a few years that GLP is actually just an arm of Google - the ads are for sure and the value of the data harvesting, tracking, seeing how people really feel, etc. They kinda just own everything. Same with Facebook and Google - same owners at the top, setting up the left and right as they do, controlling and perpetuating each side, creating the illusion of competition. Call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist.  |
| TheTruthNeverLies User ID: 22521718 United States11/02/2012 01:28 PM  Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation |  "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples' liberty's teeth." "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." -George Washington |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 20293530 United States11/02/2012 01:29 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Startpage, and its sister search engine Ixquick, are the only third-party certified search engines in the world that do not record your IP address or track your searches. Quoting: wisc_natureboy Your privacy is under attack! Every time you use a regular search engine, your search data is recorded. Major search engines capture your IP address and use tracking cookies to make a record of your search terms, the time of your visit, and the links you choose - then they store that information in a giant database. Those searches reveal a shocking amount of personal information about you, such as your interests, family circumstances, political leanings, medical conditions, and more. This information is modern-day gold for marketers, government officials, black-hat hackers and criminals - all of whom would love to get their hands on your private search data [link to startpage.com] [link to startpage.com (secure)] I've been thinking for a few years that GLP is actually just an arm of Google - the ads are for sure and the value of the data harvesting, tracking, seeing how people really feel, etc. They kinda just own everything. Same with Facebook and Google - same owners at the top, setting up the left and right as they do, controlling and perpetuating each side, creating the illusion of competition. Call me a paranoid conspiracy theorist. It's like the debate between Obama and Romney, just a show for the plebes, keep them distracted and harvest the money off their clicks and eyeballs, massaging policy, creating the illusion of free press and democracy. |
