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- where Internet security and snooping gets me outraged -
From a recent Boing Boing article I checked to find out what can be scraped from the browser. I can understand grabbing information like browser type but operating system? WTF? You don't need to know that.
And you really don't need to know where I live - it gave me a location within half a mile.
I understand that a lot of this is for 'advertising purposes' - so it can know who I am, where I live and tailor ads *just for me*! Well no, most of the time the ads that are served up have little interest to me and I use an ad blocker. I understand that many web site use ad revenue to run but damn... do you have to be so nosey?
So I installed NoScripts so the websites wouldn't be so snoopy. Things got interesting after that.
Some sites loaded just fine - without a lot of annoying clutter. Some sites displayed strangely or not at all. And when I went to get a Microsoft email account it would *NOT* let me create one... or it would create one then say it doesn't exist!
Okay... deactivate NoScripts. Not disable, deactivate.
Okay, I got my email account. I go back to the console and *finally* was able to make an XBox account. I even got a gamer tag and everything! I changed the name and the tag and downloaded Bejewelled because it's free/demo.
Since the DVD drive is still dead I'm considering using it for a media box. There seems to be a lot of movie services available, it's choosing the right one. I'd like something where I can just order a movie and have it streamed to me or temporarily downloaded - not one with a monthly fee. I know the monthly fee is what the companies *want* you to use because they get a guaranteed check from you every month. That's not how I roll. If I want something I'll buy it. Memberships just a way to pick your pocket every month.
But if I can get the DVD drive to work... now that makes things more interesting. It's disassembly time.
-to be continued...
-m
From a recent Boing Boing article I checked to find out what can be scraped from the browser. I can understand grabbing information like browser type but operating system? WTF? You don't need to know that.
And you really don't need to know where I live - it gave me a location within half a mile.
I understand that a lot of this is for 'advertising purposes' - so it can know who I am, where I live and tailor ads *just for me*! Well no, most of the time the ads that are served up have little interest to me and I use an ad blocker. I understand that many web site use ad revenue to run but damn... do you have to be so nosey?
So I installed NoScripts so the websites wouldn't be so snoopy. Things got interesting after that.
Some sites loaded just fine - without a lot of annoying clutter. Some sites displayed strangely or not at all. And when I went to get a Microsoft email account it would *NOT* let me create one... or it would create one then say it doesn't exist!
Okay... deactivate NoScripts. Not disable, deactivate.
Okay, I got my email account. I go back to the console and *finally* was able to make an XBox account. I even got a gamer tag and everything! I changed the name and the tag and downloaded Bejewelled because it's free/demo.
Since the DVD drive is still dead I'm considering using it for a media box. There seems to be a lot of movie services available, it's choosing the right one. I'd like something where I can just order a movie and have it streamed to me or temporarily downloaded - not one with a monthly fee. I know the monthly fee is what the companies *want* you to use because they get a guaranteed check from you every month. That's not how I roll. If I want something I'll buy it. Memberships just a way to pick your pocket every month.
But if I can get the DVD drive to work... now that makes things more interesting. It's disassembly time.
-to be continued...
-m
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