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I like the idea of an ‘about me’ page also, as my collection is somewhat polyglot and needs some thinning anyhow….
Welcome, Andy. I’ve read your posts on AGF forever and find your commentary well worth reading.
Hoping you’re recovering from your treatment.
As the guys on RMMGA used to say, “pull up a rock, light up a beer,” and enjoy yourself.
Hi Tadol,
Chrome definitely has the right answers in terms of privacy. It’s not perfect – nothing is – but it’ll do more to secure your browsing with the right add-ons than most others. The key thing is to use Adblock, Privacy Badger, and Disconnect – they add a lot to your experience.
In terms of passwords, a good password manager is LastPass. At $24/year, it’s not particularly cheap, but it’s pretty reasonable. The key thing is to have the password for your LastPass inscribed onto the inside of your eyelids – when you lose that, your only real recourse is to destroy the account and start over, and yes, that has happened to me. OTOH, that’s part of why it’s relatively safe.
This is the state of the web right now. Your browsing habits are being monitored, as regulations and consent decrees related to privacy have recently been rolled back, and even with the recent Facebook debacle, advertisers are still running wild to track you, hijack your cookies to get at your data, and sell it for $$$$. Remember – when the product is free, YOU are the product.
So how do you get around this?
Here are a few things to reduce your traceability…..beside not using the internet.
1. Use Chrome; as a browser, it’s got more extensions to help privacy than others. In addition, it’s designed so that each tab runs in a separate process, making it more difficult for advertisers to track outside the current tab and hijack information gathered by other adverstisers and cookies.
2. Use an ad blocker extension. Chrome has a number of these. I use AdBlock Plus, but uBlock is also good. This blocks ads, including the insidious single-pixel ads designed solely to place a cookie in your cache and track your habits.
3. Install the privacy badger extension. Like Honey Badger, Privacy Badger don’t care – about the feelings of ads and other things that want to track you.
4. Install the Disconnect extension. This blocks a multitude of ills, including cookie hijacking, third party cookie use, and other Bad Stuff.
Clear your cache after installing them (make sure you know your passwords first!!) and you’ll have much less targeted adware in your browser.
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Wine absolutely helps with perception 😉
That’s my position and I’m sticking to it.
Glad you had a chance to play through the stable, and that you enjoyed it.
And the latest wood in the stash is….persimmon!
It’s an ebony, and it cuts and works like it.
Got the bole of a fruit tree that was in pretty bad shape and have managed to resaw a couple of small back and side sets. It’s about the same density as macassar ebony but lighter in color. It’s pretty dry – the tree had been dead for a year or two – but I’ll let it sit for a bit and see what comes out of it.
Good red wine for gigs, and not too much. Whiskey or whisky for local jams. And Pernod or pastis when playing Roma jazz.
….but I ain’t particular…. 😉
