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WaPo also wrote: Look in the upper right corner of your Chrome browser. See a picture or a name in the circle? If so, you’re logged in to the browser, and Google might be tapping into your Web activity to target ads. Don’t recall signing in? I didn’t, either. Chrome recently started doing that automatically when you use Gmail.
Does uBlock prevent that too?
Given the choice between crippled spyware and a more decent browser, which do you prefer on your system?
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I switched to FireFox 1 or 2 years ago. With FireFox you still get a nice account (if you want it) that will track the sites you visited etc (nice if you work on multiple machines and if you want it).
However, they do not sell your data at all and all that data is private to you.
I also switched to using DuckDuckGo.com 100% of the time.
I was very accustomed to using Google Chrome (used it for at least 5 years continuously) but the switch was very easy. I highly recommend it. Mozilla is open source and a company which I believe honestly works for its users.
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Then don't use an android phone... you still have less (almost none) control about it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: Then don't use an android phone... you still have less (almost none) control about it.
I prefer to not own a phone at all, but without one I can't access some government-sites. So, there's one here that is used specifically for that. A prepaid sim paid with cash, and it does not leave the house.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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this is news? Next, someone will discover that google is cyphering through your gmail. Oh wait, that's been done....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: this is news?
On the 21th it was, at least to the general public. There cannot be anything "new" in the WaPo for this audience ofc 
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If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Gates is still kicking himself for taking his eyes off the ball and allowing Google to develop Android, the “standard non-Apple phone form platform,” as he describes it. If only they had a phone OS for years before Android came out!
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And it's not like Microsoft completely ignored CE for six years (after having complete dominance of the hand held scanner market.)
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They had Windows Mobile - Wikipedia, remember HTC.. its just that they could not keep up with the times...and Bill Gates could not have done anything at msft that would have given it the lead...basically since they didn't want to get into Java and they had this .NET thing coming along.
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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In 2001/2002 we built an internal app via Compact .NET Framework which ran on PocketPC devices which allowed users to obtain signatures for delivered packages. Then when they returned to the mail room they put the device in the cradle and it snyced all data back to SQL Server. It worked really well and building code in .NET (compact) was really nice. Yes, there were limitations and challenges but it worked quite qell.
Way back in 01/02 and we were building mobile apps. Many years before Apple. But, alas, first to market (or even best product) does not always win.
When MS lost on the mobile app front may have been when they lost completely. Not sure why they gave up so easily, except that someone didn't understand that it was the future / no leadership into mobile development.
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ya those cab file deployments.. inventory management.. did something with reading barcodes with those handhelds...some sdk.. well msft was chasing somebody and lost interest ...and the mismanagement ...trying to make windows CE/.net into a full fledge thing....chasing nokia symbian... basically the hardware was not so advance in those days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: .and the mismanagement ...trying to make windows CE/.net into a full fledge thing....chasing nokia symbian... basically the hardware was not so advance in those days...
Yeah, lots of mistakes were made.
H/w wasn't fantastic, but my PocketPC only cost $200 and lasted like 6 years (made by viewsonic).
I was very sad when it finally died because at the time (08) there as no valid replacement. Just iPhone basically and I was no-way on that.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: allowing Google to develop Android
"Allowing"?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If only they had a phone OS for years before Android came out!
It kills me. I was using PocketPC in 2002 and really liking it.
Another guy I worked with bought a Windows Phone (running PocketPC 2002) at the time but it did crash a lot and it used a "HORROR!" stylus (I liked using the stylus). Anyways, then we paused for like 5 years and the first iPhone comes out and it doesn't really do as much as the PocketPC 2002 -- except it doesn't use a stylus (wow, such innovation!). In that first year there was no app store even . But it was WAY better than PocketPC...(that I had 5 years before) that's what they tole me! Ok.
I know. I know. It's all MARKETING! 
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Millions of Dell computers running Windows, and possibly many more computers made by other brands, are vulnerable to a flaw in their internal system-health software that could let hackers take over the machines, according to a new report from Sunnyvale, California-based SafeBreach. Software designed to keep machines safe has vulnerability. Someone please notify Alanis Morissette
I imagine there are more than a few Dells out there (and others with that software)
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I can guarantee you that my reasonably new Dell laptop is not a potential victim of this flaw. 
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Someone please notify Alanis Morissette
Wouldn't it be more effective to inform someone who knows what the word "ironic" means?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It’s a new central location where you can access the traditional cmd line, PowerShell, and the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It may be terminal, but it doesn't seem contagious
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/22/18713270/microsoft-slack-ban-aws-google-docs-prohibited-list-details
“Slack Free, Slack Standard and Slack Plus versions do not provide required controls to properly protect Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP). Existing users of these solutions should migrate chat history and files related to Microsoft business to Microsoft Teams, which offers the same features and integrated Office 365 apps, calling and meeting functionality. Learn more about the additional features that Teams can provide your workgroup. Slack Enterprise Grid version complies with Microsoft security requirements; however, we encourage use of Microsoft Teams rather than a competitive software.”
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Whilst (if you read the full article) the major concern is the security of internal information, I find it a bit rich regarding the correction software...
quote "Quote: “The Grammarly Office add-in and browser extensions should not be used on the Microsoft network because they are able to access Information Rights Management (IRM) protected content within emails and documents,”
Considering the amount of information "gleaned" from Windows 10 users I find this a it rich...
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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ya i noticed that...ridiculous.. indeed...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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We used Slack at my last company and I worried about this; we were sending highly confidential information to a third party, taking their word that it was secure. However, given the number of bugs with Slack, why believe them?
modified 23-Jun-19 15:26pm.
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Robots may be coming your job, but a new study finds we don’t need to work that much anyway. Done
Of course, the headline and the research are not exactly aligned, but maybe the headline writer was booking off work any minute.
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Quote: When you go to a job the pub, you meet people, socialize, and feel like you’re contributing to society.
Can't argue with that!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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