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" In the small South Carolina town of Newberry, Bob's Red Mill muesli cereal is hard to come by. That presents a challenge for resident Gregory Kelly, who can'
by eejjjj82 7y ago
" In the small South Carolina town of Newberry, Bob's Red Mill muesli cereal is hard to come by.
That presents a challenge for resident Gregory Kelly, who can't get enough of the stuff. He'd rather not truck the 40 miles or so to Columbia to stock up on it, but he's also loath to buy it from the company's website, which he says is riddled with tracking software from Google"
Somebody get this man a Firefox Privacy Tab
- bhauer 7y agoI feel the author was struggling to find a suitable anecdote to open the story. And this one seems a bit far-fetched, perhaps even exaggerated by Mr. Kelly as a means of illustrating the hassle of curtailing the surveillance apparatus of Google. But someone who has gone to the lengths described probably knows how to block requests to google-analytics.com.
- AdmiralAsshat 7y agoIt is pretty good cereal, though. Way better than some of those bland, mushy quick oats.
- elcomet 7y agoThey still get your ip address
- imgabe 7y agoVPN
- filoleg 7y agoNot if you get a VPN. Even though you should pay for it, it is till cheaper than traveling 40 miles in a truck.
- elcomet 7y agoIs it though? It is often arou d $3-4 a month. If you go there once a month I'm not sure it's worth it
- tbirrell 7y agoThe truck would have to get 50-60 miles to the gallon to even begin to be competitive with a VPN.
- filoleg 7y ago1 gallon of gas in my state is currently between $3.50 and $4. 40 miles each way is 80 miles total. The guy from the article will save money by driving his truck instead of using a VPN, but only if he goes shopping once a month, and his truck gets over 80mpg (miles per gallon). This way, he spends exactly that one gallon over the whole trip, which will conveniently make the gas expenses equal to the monthly price of a VPN (not even counting the wear and tear on the car, but that’s another story). To demonstrate how implausible this is: * Toyota Prius (hybrid) - 50/53mpg * Honda Accord (entry level sedan) - 30/38mpg * Ford F150 (small pickup truck) - 20/26mpg And that’s only for the latest year models. If his truck is 10+ years old or larger than F150, expect mpg to be way more disastrous.
- npongratz 7y agoTFA continues: '"I'm just not sure why Google needs to know what breakfast cereal I eat," the 51-year-old said.' I hope Mr. Kelly is a pseudonym for the article. If not, Big Geez now knows his breakfast cereal proclivities. For what it's worth, I'm in full sympathy of his plight, and agree that advertiser surveillance is creepy, dangerous, and evil.
- s3r3nity 7y agoI think it says a lot - either about tech culture or Firefox's marketing - that many people don't know about these types of tools that solve the problem.
- lysium 7y agoWhat does a privacy tab solve? To get his cereal delivered the shop needs his address, doesn’t it? So google could know that the person at that address likes those cereals. Unless the shop is not sharing the address with google ( which it should not, but can you count on that?)