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Personally, I use something of a mixed strategy:-Any sites or services who's content I feel I cannot live with, are listed in my /etc/hosts file
Wherever possible for news, I prefer to receive and digest it in summary form via any available RSS feeds using either Thunderbird of RSS Owl
When browsing, I typically use Firefox, and have the Privacy Badger and U-Block Origin add-ons installed, enabled and suitably tweaked which I find mitigates a great deal of the 'noise'. Set FF to delete everything at the end of each browser session.
Other general rules:- Never use anything from Google, ie Google Chrome Browser, Gmail etc.Most searches are done using duckduckgo, however, if I feel the need to use Google for search, then it is done via ixquick Don't use any form of social media like facebook, twitter, or linkedin etc etc
Never us any ISP supplied appliance Always use your own DNS resolverIf you ever find yourself talking to a web-master and he is using things like google analytics, take the trouble to explain to him that he is part of the problem and is only perpetuating it.
I am sure that I could add a few more things to the list, but those simple things above do tend to make it just about tolerable for me.
On 21/09/16 08:57, L Smith wrote:
Its an habit with local rags as well, I always move on elsewhere .. I think that for the rag concerned it is shoot themself in the foot situation bcause I (and doubtless many more) do not share their articles on social media (which is something they want you to do).On Friday, 16 September 2016, 17:45, Julian Hall <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:On 16/09/16 15:11, Henry Bremridge wrote:> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 02:33:23PM +0100, barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:>>> Any sites that try to force me to allow their ads on to my computer will>> never be looked at again. >> > That is the objective: > - Either pay and ads are reduced / non existent > - Or don't pay and watch the ads > - Or do not read the website and so reduce their costs. > > And reduce their revenue, driven by page hits for the advertising. Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq
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