On 04/17/2014 05:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> Take for example current controversies over services >> like Amazon and Google and the "filter bubble": Do you consider it >> harmful for them to tailor your experience to their estimate of what you > > They are not given the opportunity to do so. Participation in such > systems is optional. In this they differ fundamenally from government > surveillance. > >> Should the fact that I browsed over Marx' "Das Kapital" mean that >> subsequent searches for Economics and Social Philosophy will bury >> "Socialism" by von Mises so deep I won't see it? Some think it nifty >> while it scares the hell out of others. > > Some can participate. Others can choose not to. No one is required to > have a Google account. Your browser won't pass cookies and webbugs > around if you tell it not to. >
"Optional" for now. More and more these entities are moving away from using the browser to store identifying info. https://panopticlick.eff.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Device_fingerprint - PaulNM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/53504c1b.1020...@paulscrap.com