[Info-vax] [OT] Real Usenet clients, was: Re: backups and compaction or nocompaction might be better

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <ke971c$f1u$1 at dont-email.me>,
>  Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> 
>> In previous discussions, when Google Groups started, for example, including
>> HTML and XML escape entities in messages as well as encoding messages as
>> one very long line per paragraph, the impression you gave at the time was
>> that since Google was doing this it was suddenly ok, and we should just
>> accept it.
>> 
>> Based on what you say here, that may not be what you intended to say, but
>> that's how it came across at the time.
>
> FWIW it didn't come across to me that way at the time.
>

I see. It must have just been my perception then. :-)

>
> Call me a cynic if you will, but I see it as a deliberate policy to 
> persuade people to start using Google Groups, having Javascript turned 
> on at all times, and being logged into Google at all times.
>
> I stopped playing that game when I saw an advert for data centre 
> products in the middle of a humorous article on a tabloid newspaper's 
> web site   That was all the proof I needed that Google were not only 
> tracking my interests but giving me work related ads in my leisure time.  
> A brief flirtation with Google Plus also demonstrated that normal 
> searches Google searches would insist that you were logged in first.  No 
> thanks.
>

I avoid these problems by having Firefox clear _all_ session data when
the browser is shutdown; no one ever gets a chance to build up a cookie
based history on me spanning across sessions.

NoScript is also mandatory for me and I don't even have Flash installed;
I don't need it for most things and whenever I want to watch something on
YouTube I just download it from YouTube and watch it offline using Xine.

Simon.

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