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Re: rapidly proliferating sess files in /tmp, eating inodes





On Saturday, 24 May 2014, Tony Baldwin <tony@tonybaldwin.info> wrote:
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:29:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Reco writes:
> > He meant that StartPage wants anybody to believe that they don't show
> > any ads, don't place any cookies, they don't use any _javascript_ on
> > their site, and of course, they would not track anyone while they're
> > lifting Google's search results.
>
> But I always block ads, cookies, scripts, and trackers anyway.
> StartPage just pointlessly adds another layer.
>
> How does StartPage pay their bills?

They DO show ads.
They just don't do the tracking and the filtering/manipulation of your
search results.

tony
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If one has an objection to using google (privacy, tracking, cookies) is it not a little hypocritical  to use Startpage which is still relying on Google search anyway ?

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