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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:04:05 -0700
From: Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Google Search problems
Message-ID: <4E2E2095.4050400@thadlabs.com>

On 7/25/2011 2:25 PM, John Mayson wrote:
> [...]
> I forget where I read this recently.  I might have been from the Free
> Software Foundation website.  Those of us with Facebook accounts are
> not Facebook's customers.  We're Facebook's products.  The paid
> advertisers are Facebook's customers.
> 
> Think about that for a moment.
> 
>>From what I understand of Facebook's business model this is quite
> true.  I have been tempted for one reason or another to close my
> Facebook account (understanding they still own what little I have put
> there).  But my family begs me not to, so I capitulate.

Why?

You have EVERYTHING about you here http://www.mayson.us/ so why
do you want to perpetuate Zuckerberg's company which, by the way,
is referred to as Fecebook in many forums and groups I frequent.
That name was coined by a [female] member of the Yahoo linux group
of which I'm one of the moderators.  :-)

All of the "social" sites are money magnets for their owners due to
the advertising which is becoming almost obscene and extremely
obnoxious in addition to being a vector for malware which inflicted
even the New York Times whose ads are offsite-hosted.

I don't see ANY ads, anytime or anywhere, when I browse the web with
thanks to my merger of the two free well-researched databases here:

    http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm  as of 23-JUL-2011
and
    http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ as of 21-JUL-2011

both of which are updated frequently.

The /etc/hosts trick works on every system in the world: BSD, Linux,
MacOS, UNIX (AIX, HPUX, SLES, Solaris, et al), and Windows (Win98SE,
Win2K, WinXP, Vista and Win7).  And, yes, Windows is POSIX-compliant
and has an "etc/hosts" file here:  C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/
and, yes, the "/" does work correctly in the "DOS" Command Prompt
of Windows systems.

***** Moderator's Note *****

Why do YOU moderate a group on Yahoo? Isn't it more pure to have
everything on Usenet?

Bill, with his tongue firmly in his cheeck.

Bill Horne
Moderator




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