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    RM>   >important either, but the issue here is the chip on my shoulder about b   
    RM>   >tec   
    RM>   >nd companies with big names.   
    RM>    
    RM> Yes, and the other thing here is most companies and banks and such try   
    RM> their best to force you to go with electronic statements rather than   
    RM> mailing paper. They don't ask you to change, if you have an eMail address   
      
   That's a good point, and I never thought about it this way until now. Before I   
   thought "they want to pretend to be tree-huggers" or "they want to save money   
   on postage," but I think your analogy is more likely true.   
      
    RM> Yes, in a big way. They do offer some good services that we don't have   
    RM> to pay for so they have to make some money off of us somewhere and   
    RM> selling information about us seems to be the best way..   
      
   This is another good point. How does Google make so much money when they don't   
   even sell anything? Well, I think we've discovered the answer to that ;)   
      
    RM> On that one I'm just about as bad. I prefer the results I get using Bing   
    RM> instead of Google, but if I start getting targeted ads from them or   
    RM> something I'd use a safer one like (I think) DuckDuckGo..   
    RM>    
    RM> That said, possibly I'm just better protected due to my Browser.   
    RM> I use Opera, a highly modified version of Chrome or Mozilla   
      
   I don't fully understand how one browser could be less vulnerable to tracking   
   than another. If there's one that's open source, then I'd like to examine the   
   source to see if what it's doing with information that is typed (keylogging,   
   sending info to a database, stuff like that.) But I haven't taken the time to   
   do that yet because I'm just not very concerned about covering my tracks.   
   (Although I'm glad to throw a curveball to big tech whenever it's convenient.)   
      
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