I tried to make a point about with whom and how we delegate and spread trust.
I tried to dress it somewhat, so that I did not come as a...le. That being said, I find it extremely dangerous to a healthy discourse to be spreading unverified opinions - especially about privacy and security. People can and do get hurt. We, as a race, are build to trust just about anything. Just look at how profitable all sorts of crazy scams are or at the what kind of stuff people trust before/after election, when ill, ... That being said, I personally have no qualified opinion on Ghostery - beyond the fact that there is lots of money and influence at stake AND WE ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER. Should their revenue come 100% from us users - in the form of subscription, support, licenses, what not - then the incentives would be aligned with users. Germany is kind of irrelevant here - see emission cheating. I hope this clarifies my point a little. Tomas On Mon, Sep 23, 2019, 20:10 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2019, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > IMO, Rich isn't going to get what he wants, > > Ah, but with regard to letting ghostery do what it can to block tracking > and > accepting the results are just what I want. :-) > > If you want to experience having to prove negatives (e.g., by assuring that > no adverse consequences will result from an permitted activity) get into > the > wonderful Lewis Carroll based world of environmental regulatation. > > In real life the lack of environmental regulatory science has as many > consequence for all of us as does Internet security and tracking, Perhaps > more because we can't turn off the natural world. > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
