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assembler01 wrote:PS: I do not use Google because they track you

Turn off your modem, and pull the battery out of your phone. Move your house to the hills while your at it.

...and wear an aluminium foil hat.

There are reasons to critizise Google et al., but if you do, you should do so from an informed standpoint, or you will seem a fool.

("If you use a proxy you are using someone else's IP"? Seriously?)

assembler01 wrote:What I meant when I said that google tracks you is that google sends information about you to the website you clicked on. When you use a proxy you are using SOMEBODY ELSE'S ip num, and also, then google tracks that somebody else.

How do you know the proxy isn't tracking you? If I wanted to spy on people like you, I'd set out to find you by creating a service for you which fools you into thinking it prevents you from being tracked, and then I'd have easy access to all the people like you and wouldn't need to pay so much attention to all the normal people who aren't trying to avoid being tracked and who therefore aren't of so much interest to me. You'd be far better off pretending to be normal, using a computer in the normal way so that no one suspects you, spending half your time on Youtube watching baby pandas sneezing, and every once in a while doing a quick google for something subversive like I/O ports and hoping that no one notices.

Alternatively you can do what the rest of us do - come on here and talk lots of utter drivel about all the ground-shaking stuff you're planning to do, because that way the security services and big-business spies will write you off as complete nutter and won't waste time trying to steal your work. Wearing the tinfoil hat is also crucial as they can spy on you through your webcam even if the light stays off - the hat instantly confirms that you are indeed a nutter, and that allows you to work on at full speed in complete safety. I don't stop at the hat either - I go cross-eyed and make strange animal noises whenever I come across a prime number or the letter J, just to help throw them off the trail. Every decent hacker has an armoury of tricks of this kind to deploy, and you need to find some of your own.