Re:Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
by alphonsegaston on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:49AM
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I'm pretty sure throwing our political weight behind corporations play-acting benevolence, instead of actual reform, is how we ended up here.
Re:Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
by logicallee on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @01:08AM
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I'll take what I can get :) The damage is done and I think Google should help route around it.
Of course I agree with you that attacking the policy is also very important, but people still have to use the Internet every day. I'm not asking Google to do this as a policy statement - but as a practical matter. They can solve this problem for users by running a VPN for everyone and also web proxy via https://www.google.com which nobody could really filter.
This does not take away from the importance of attacking this policy.
Re:Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
by domoritz on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @03:12AM
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Does Chrome's Data Saver (which at least routes HTTP requests around your ISP) count as a start?
Re:Anger as US internet privacy law scrapped
by logicallee on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @06:21AM
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from your description, sure. It just needs to do something bigger. :)
(I personally recommend you also do a web-based proxy, because who is going to filter https://www.google.com now or in the future?)
I believe in you. You can do it!
Counter this chilling effect today - and show more adwords as a result. (There is no irony in this statement. I mean from web sites that opt into adwords, not from selling VPN traffic logs.)