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Predatory Spam Links
This is an FYI to warn you that some of the “likes” that appear at the bottom of my posts are from spammers. These are folks with WordPress sites that engage in predatory advertising. They click my “like” button to … Continue reading
Posted in administration
Tagged advertising, miscellaneous, wordpress
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The Current State of Electronic Snooping
This is a long post, a general consumer-level survey, distilling what we can know from public revelations. Snoopers: There are four kinds of snoopers. 1. Government espionage: If you are targeted as a national security threat, they will get you. … Continue reading
Posted in computers
Tagged advertising, browsers, business, compsec, computer technology, internet, surveillance, windows
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The Moral Duty to Adblock
The Internet is a much better place if you and I agree to block advertising in our browsers. We have that word from a former insider, one of the guys who designed the current intrusive tracking of advertising on the … Continue reading
Posted in computers
Tagged adblock, advertising, internet, malware
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Blocking Advertisements
Says your Internet Pastor: God has no problem with blocking Internet advertising. Yes, it really is a moral question. No, it has nothing to do with free speech. Internet users are individuals. Each of us will tolerate what we tolerate, … Continue reading
Posted in sanity
Tagged advertising, internet, moral discernment
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Firefox Now on the Dark Side
We probably should have seen this coming: Firefox users, get ready for ads in your browser. I don’t think AdBlock or it’s friends will help you with this. Granted, it’s not as if you have no options at all, but … Continue reading
Posted in computers
Tagged advertising, browsers, Firefox, internet, Open Source software, software
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Frantic Spamming (Updated)
Update: A manager at Love’s called shortly after I posted this and was unhappy to hear that I had so much trouble getting this SMS spam to stop. I take his apology at face value. I told him it took … Continue reading
Posted in social sciences
Tagged advertising, business, communications, economics, marketing, propaganda, psychology, resistance, social conditioning
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Malvertising
Most of you will recognize the term malvertising. It’s a technique for infecting computers with malware by using the advertising feeds found on most websites. Similar with the way TV in the US is funded by advertising, this blog is … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, compsec, computers, FB, google, Opera browser, software, windows
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Some Gifts Here
Merry Christmas. On the one hand, I would gladly suffer just about anything I can imagine if more people could see what I see in terms of moral truth. On the other hand, much of the moral power rests on … Continue reading
Posted in eldercraft
Tagged advertising, browsers, civilization, computers, epistemology, google, internet, mysticism, philosophy, spirituality, technology
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Bits and Pieces 14
Sometimes the best you can get is broken. I can’t post on Facebook this morning. I can click a few “likes” if I use a plain text browser and log in via the mobile interface FB offers but I still … Continue reading
Posted in globalism
Tagged advertising, compsec, computers, culture, FB, government, internet, linux, NSA, oppression, resistance, technology
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