Path: csiph.com!3.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Popping Mad Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Best Linux for senior citizens? Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 10:37:12 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: <0ti23g-gh6.ln1@Telcontar.valinor> NNTP-Posting-Host: www3.mrbrklyn.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1566743932 26125 96.57.23.83 (25 Aug 2019 14:38:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2019 14:38:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:27951 On 8/22/19 2:41 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote: > On 22/08/2019 17.07, Lew Pitcher wrote: >> Dave wrote: >> >>> On 8/22/19 9:45 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote: >>> >>>>> >>>>> I have been told that Linux Mint and Elementary are good. I find Mint >>>>> to be ugly, and their web site demands cookies ( a total non-starter >>>>> with me). >>>> >>>> Then you will have problems with any serious current distribution. >>>> Forget your phobia. >>>> >>> Not going to happen. I can not reconcile the concept of open source and >>> software freedom with demands for cookies. If they require cookies, >>> then they should be closed source like M$. >> >> Apparently, you don't know what cookies are for, or how websites use them. >> You aren't going to find many websites that /do not/ use cookies. Cookies >> aren't really the privacy issue; the real issue is what information you >> voluntarily give the website, how they associate that information with the >> cookie or cookies that they use, and what they do with /that/ association. >> >> FWIW, education is the best cure for phobia, I've found. > > Right. > > Also, there are many types of cookies. > > There are, for example, cookies to store configuration your choices. > Like "I want to see the site in German". That is stored in a cookie. > Those cookies are not tracking people or breaking their privacy. > > Others can be used to store login/password data. Not the actual > password, but to somehow know that you passed the entry door. Yeah, > these can be said "they track me". Yes, they do, but there is apparently > no other way. > > Then there are others generated by, say, google stat collection scripts. > When you enter another site, the script there will read those cookies > and find out where you come from. If you click and add, the save that > information. Those you may dislike. > > You can browse each site in private mode, and erase the cookies after > leaving the site. That will negate them their purpose, good or "evil". > The next day you will have to ask for the German version again. > > Now, equating the use of any cookie to been an evil and hateful site, > improper for Linux people... wow. > > Any major distribution with a complex site will use some cookies. Any > site with any add needs cookies. Linux sites have adds from their > sponsors, those that provide them with computers to run the site, serve > the download site, compile the packages. And adds come often with > scripts, that's unfortunate. > http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/