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I would highly encourage anyone who thinks that the solution is as simple as "don't use XYZ" to see what Moxie Marlinspike had to say about "Changing threats to

• acqq 13y ago
  The relevant part starts at 8:20.
• a3n 13y ago
  Interesting talk, thanks. Are you referring to Moxie's "expanding social choice?" Yeah, it's an issue. I don't feel I'm losing anything in that area by not using Google search. Or are you talking about Google Analytics' encroaching into the fundamental functionality of a site, beyond mere analytics, so that blocking Analytics breaks the site? To that I would say to a site owner, don't use Analytics. As for me the visitor ... dunno. We do what we can and what we have the energy for. And while we should use and develop a lot of these technical solutions, we'll get longer term bang for the buck if we restrict the operations of our spies. Make 'em follow the Constitution, in the US, for example. Except, how would we know? And even if we did, as Moxie points out, now that the NSA is collecting data where Google et al. collects it, other powers and criminals are also doing the same thing at the same places. So it's a mix, and I don't know how it's going to play out. But I don't use Google search. Mostly.