Folks, despite what sites say, there are companies that track you. They don’t know it’s specifically YOU, but your movements, your purchases, your store locations, your public comments on social media…it all pings back to you so their clients can appropriately market to you and feed you the ads that specifically target YOU. You might be “anonymized” in their database, but you’re out there.
DDG does not track nor store your info. So if online privacy is the goal it is a good alternative to Google. However ddg gets poor marks on their search results.
Although the discussion of firearms in films and on sets is a point for discussion, I really hope it does not distract by the larger issue this event points to: workplace conditions on film sets which contributes to exactly this sort of harm, even if not always high profile.
Perhaps they don’t but other things do such as IP addresses, mobile devices, homes, visits to businesses. It’s anonymized by DaaS providers, but marketers still are able to target their marketing to you and people “like you”.
This type of mishap is extraordinarily rare. Since there is a collective bargaining unit in place they can negotiate, yet again, terms based on their list of priorities.
Those examples are quite a different matter than the tracking for commercial purposes topic however. They fall in the same category as cameras on public roadways and offices and in private businesses. No one is invisible on the internet just as they aren’t in day to day life. Minimizing the commercial use of your searches and online habits is a different matter which is where ddg and Brave come into play.
Brandon Lee is another/better example. But nonetheless there’s been something like 43 on location deaths in the last 30 years. Deaths by hippos go north of 500 per year.
Once all the craziness to acquire a ticket was over, yes. Visually fun interplay.
Cons: Two different events on VanGogh running in NYC at the exact same time was confusing, ridiculous marketing. Canceling dates with little notice and no formal explanation was frustrating. Then, continuing to advertise ticket sales after bumping hundreds was the last straw. My sibs kept dealing with this in order to go as a family. So, in the end, we experienced it.
I read there were similar ticket buying experiences in several cities.
DDG does not track users. is it the best search engine in the world?
who knows.
I have Bing and Google selectable in FFox - if I’m not getting good hits from (any of them) I’ll try another.
regularly deleting cookies and cache minimizes being tracked - unless you’re using a “portal” (like Yahoo.com, etc.) they track by user and store your history in their cloud.
Microsoft is also very very big on tracking users - altho you can delete the history and tell it not to track in your ‘account profile.’
or so they say, not sure I believe much of anything the big techs put out.
Cheers
go north of 500 per year.