Popular Post Allan F Posted February 20 Popular Post Share Posted February 20 On 2/8/2024 at 3:14 PM, AudioDoctor said: +1 for Signal The hardest part of getting off of the facebook bandwagon is how little motivation everyone else has to do the same. I have never signed up for Facebook because of privacy concerns, so that is not an issue for me. However, what pisses me off is the number of companies that have switched from using their own websites to forcing you to sign up to Facebook if you want to access their site information. Add to that how Facebook and Google encourage you to use them as logins so those behemoths can track your every move. AudioDoctor and Jeff_N 2 "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
Allan F Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 On 2/20/2024 at 5:13 PM, Jud said: Just a note to say no one should take healthcare action based on results from one of the ancestry companies, which are notoriously subject to error. If you want information about medical conditions, have testing done by an accredited medical lab. Agreed. One need look no further than the reported cases of these companies producing different results from DNA samples submitted by identical twins, a genetic impossibility. "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
Allan F Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 12 hours ago, Jud said: Startpage is Google search through an anonymizing proxy. Strange if it is, because it did not produce the same results as Google. "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
Allan F Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 13 hours ago, Jud said: What Chris said, and also throw in differences in location caused by the proxy, plus differences caused by absence of other personal information, plus whatever I haven't thought of that would cause a difference in the Google page rank algorithm. I suppose the above explains what I experienced. The Google result was more directly related to my specific query, which was of a somewhat local nature. I don't pretend to understand how Google's algorithm works. 🙂 "Relax, it's only hi-fi. There's never been a hi-fi emergency." - Roy Hall "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - William Bruce Cameron Link to comment
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