April 1st 21, 05:08 AM
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Google is redirecting me to a "consent" page - is it new or just me ?
R.Wieser wrote:
Charlie+,
it means they dont know who you are
After having used them for a decade thats rather hard to believe.
and your avoidance to Google harvesting all your data has
been successful!
Nah. Although I block all kinds of trackers they should have no problem
with harvesting all my search queries and extract lots of info from that.
Move to StartPage.com as your browser search page would be
my suggestion to you.
Really ?
I went to their "privacy policy" page (duh)
https://www.startpage.com/en/search/privacy-policy.html
and the first thing I got was this, overlaying the whole page (blocking me
from even seeing what their policy is !) :
Quote:
ENGLISH:
JavaScript appears to be disabled in your web browser. To complete the
CAPTCHA, please enable JavaScript and reload the page.
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in multiple languages.
So, I *first* have to enable JS (not going to happen) *and* go thru a
captcha (not going to happen either) to be allowed to read what their
privacy policy actually is ? They must be joking. :-(
And a captcha on their *privacy policy* page ? What the **** do they think
they have in there that needs to be protected that way ?
[quote from that page]
With Startpage you can search and browse the internet privately. *Not
because you have something to hide, but because you have a lot to protect!*
[/quote]
And the first thing that they demand is that I enable JS ? They *got* to
be kidding.
Also, looking thru that "privacy policy" they double-talk (lie?) quite a
bit. As a result if that and the above I do not quite trust them.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
Duckduckgo.com
No JS needed.
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