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Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life

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Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> writes:

> We can on an individual basis. I really don't care if Google is
> technically superior. As far as I am concerned it's not worth using
> due to the spying aspects, and the alternatives are good enough for
> my purposes.
> 
> It's the same kind of decision I made regarding not having a smartphone.
> Of course one can do all kinds of nifty things with one.  None of those
> things are worth putting up with the tracking and surveillance aspects
> as far as I'm concerned, so I simply do without while laughing at the people
> so addicted to the damned things that they can't even drive or sit down
> to a meal without poking at them.

This is actually a deeper matter that it at first glance appears to
be.  What things bear secondary or covert costs, what things offend
your dignity, what things constitute (or just imply) your
collaboration in something evil -- that you could get along without?
Can you just not have/use/do those things despite the costs, losses or
risks attendant on foregoing them?


> A smartphone is not a necessity of life. Neither is Google.

Nor is electricity, unless you're dependent on high-tech life support
of one kind or another.  Other examples and subsequent debate are left
as an exercise for the reader. ;-)

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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[Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-10 19:36 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-11 03:23 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 10:39 +0200
      Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> - 2019-04-11 14:45 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-11 19:38 -0400
          Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 20:46 +0200
            Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 20:50 +0200
            Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-16 02:20 +0000
              Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 11:17 +0200
                Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-16 23:48 +0000
              Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely  blocking Google from your life Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-04-16 17:51 -0300
                Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life Filip454 <filip454.newsgroups@gmail.com> - 2019-04-17 00:06 +0200
                Re: [Link Posting] here's the shocking reality of completely blocking Google from your life not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-16 23:03 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life Batchman <batchman@dosville.foo> - 2019-04-11 21:05 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-12 01:30 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Here's The Shocking Reality Of Completely Blocking Google From Your Life not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-12 23:56 +0000

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