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> * Sending all microphone input to a remote server would be really bad for battery life and data usage.

Not if you transcribe it first, and upload compressed text.

That would be "'96 MacBook Pros..." or I guess, since it was written by a Mac user, "’96 MacBook Pros..."

To clarify: The quality of the comment I quoted is indicative of the quality of TFA.

This comment pretty much sums it up:

  I, too, have not read the original article and have no urge
  to. This article is brilliant and just my cup of smart-
  ass-take-that kind of writing.

Here's how I'd trace him:

1) get access to the request logs of third-party includes on his page

2) look for requests made just before the page is published publicly

Quite the opposite. The video -- because it's huge compared to JS, CSS, etc. -- /does/ make sense to host on YouTube. The /player/ does not belong embedded in the page though. Take a screenshot, host that on your own crummy web server, and link to YouTube, ideally with a notice to the effect of "Clicking this link will share your information with YouTube..."

Amen brother, amen!

Let's see who's watching us on stopwatching.us:

  dig MX stopwatching.us | grep -c google.com
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c 'google.*\.com'
  >>> 6

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c facebook.com
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube.com
  >>> 0
  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c youtube-nocookie.com
  >>> 1
  hey, at least someone /thought/ about it

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c typekit.net
  >>> 1

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c twitter.com
  >>> 5

  curl https://rally.stopwatching.us/ |grep -c cloudflare.com
  >>> 3

The list goes on...

EDIT: I should note that these could be harmless <a...> links, but most aren't, and I'm too lazy to update the regexes and rerun. You get the point though.

Don't worry, you can use DDG and still be tracked by Goolge! With content of some sort loaded from Google's servers on around 80% of all sites, this mostly happens without you doing anything. But if you're really concerned, just use Chrome and/or set your name servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

Agreed. I just searched "PRISM" on DDG, and 8 out of top 10 results had some element loaded from a Google server (GA, fonts, jquery, search box, embedded youtube, etc.) Are you using Google's DNS server? Google owns the web. Face it.