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Hephaestus1
Sep 02, 2014Aspirant
How much safer your data is when using BTRFS over Ext4?
I have read just about every published ReadyNAS review, as well as relevant Netgear materials, including this forum. I have prety good understanding of file systems, NAS concepts, RAID, etc. Yet I am ...
StephenB
Sep 05, 2014Guru - Experienced User
Private browsing, etc help, but as you say they aren't 100%. And for most people, the PC browser isn't the only source - there's social media, mobile devices and public databases also. The economic incentives for tracking are very significant, and "big data" mining comes up with a scary amount of information.
xeltros wrote: Joke aside, adblock, do not track me and 1password are the only browser plugins I use... There might be a reason for that ;) This do not prevent some of the tracking (things based on the user account or the IP address) but it helps.
Basically, once we all accepted an ad-supported internet, we lost our privacy. If you look at the research, its hard to draw any other conclusion.
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