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1. Member
   Steve C.

   Brian Watt: The protest’s organizers claim two primary motivations for going after Human Coalition’s clinics: they’re pro-life, and they’re successful

   A twofer, a mortal sin and a venial sin.

2. Thatcher
   RushBabe49

   It’s the thought that counts. This works very well. Ewww…

3. Member
   Randy Webster

   Thank God I’ve not contributed to either of those bastards. I’ll have to think about Bing, though.

4. Member
   Arahant

   Randy Webster (View Comment):
   Thank God I’ve not contributed to either of those bastards. I’ll have to think about Bing, thougn.

   https://duckduckgo.com/

5. Moderator
   Doug Watt

   I’m not sure how much life experience some of these tech types have. Perhaps they carry a certain amount of guilt because the product they provide cannot compare with the achievement of the research that produced the polio vaccine, or the work and the research it took to put a man on the moon.

   They have produced a platform that in some cases allows us to access information that is worthwhile, but in most cases features the latest celebrity divorce, or the latest adventures of the Kardashian family. This platform also allows a large group of people that should not be allowed to have anything sharper than a crayon in their hand’s to comment in the public square.

   Perhaps this constant meddling is atonement for cooperating with Chinese security forces in providing the ISP addresses of their users in China. I suppose a couple of hours in the company ping-pong and pinball lounge was just not enough to assuage the guilt of those that might have felt guilty about betrayal.

   So my advice would be enjoy the money you have earned, stop meddling because no matter how much money you have earned does not make you the smartest person in the room, the country, or the world.

6. Inactive
   Larry Koler

   Brian, the artwork! You are a genius. Thanks for the humor — though I’m sickened by this despicable small time, small mind story of bullying.

   [It was a treat to meet you at the Reagan Library recently.]

7. Inactive
   Nanda Panjandrum

   Wonderful, Brian! Looking for alternatives to Chrome on my iDevices – and FB entirely…

8. Member
   Brian Watt

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   Nanda Panjandrum (View Comment):
   Wonderful, Brian! Looking for alternatives to Chrome on my iDevices – and FB entirely…

   Per John Walker on another Ricochet thread:

   If you are using the Google Chrome browser, you can switch to one of the other browsers which are based upon the same code base. Chromium is the open source version of Chrome, which has the Google-proprietary content removed. The Brave browser, developed by Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and target of an SJW dis-employment campaign, is based upon the the Chromium code base and blocks tracking of browsing information and intrusive advertising. I have used both of these browsers and found them very fast and feature rich, even with some of my pages which are extremely demanding on browser features.

   The principal alternative to video hosting to YouTube is Vimeo.com. They had a reputation for being less compatible with platforms than YouTube, but in recent years I haven’t encountered any problems.

   If you want to migrate your E-mail from Gmail, there are a multitude of Web mail options available (there are a number not listed in this page which cater to business-oriented customers; if you’re interested in privacy and customisation and willing to pay for it, one of these, such as Amazon WorkMail may be attractive). Note that you can export all of your mail from Gmail and, if the new provider supports it, upload it to your account at the new hosting site.

9. Inactive
   Nanda Panjandrum

   Brian Watt (View Comment):

   Nanda Panjandrum (View Comment):
   Wonderful, Brian! Looking for alternatives to Chrome on my iDevices – and FB entirely…

   Per John Walker on another Ricochet thread:

   If you are using the Google Chrome browser, you can switch to one of the other browsers which are based upon the same code base. Chromium is the open source version of Chrome, which has the Google-proprietary content removed. The Brave browser, developed by Brendan Eich, co-founder of Mozilla and target of an SJW dis-employment campaign, is based upon the the Chromium code base and blocks tracking of browsing information and intrusive advertising. I have used both of these browsers and found them very fast and feature rich, even with some of my pages which are extremely demanding on browser features.

   The principal alternative to video hosting to YouTube is Vimeo.com. They had a reputation for being less compatible with platforms than YouTube, but in recent years I haven’t encountered any problems.

   If you want to migrate your E-mail from Gmail, there are a multitude of Web mail options available (there are a number not listed in this page which cater to business-oriented customers; if you’re interested in privacy and customisation and willing to pay for it, one of these, such as Amazon WorkMail may be attractive). Note that you can export all of your mail from Gmail and, if the new provider supports it, upload it to your account at the new hosting site.

   Thanks, Brian – and @johnwalker! Will be working on this, for certain…and, of course, R> is the alternative to FB, yes? :-)

10. Member
    J. D. Fitzpatrick

    Thanks, guys. Are there alternatives to advertising on Google and FB if one wants to reach a large audience for my business?

    I’m guessing no, but I’d be happy to hear people tell me otherwise.

11. Member
    GFHandle

    Great poster. I nicked it for my blog. But will the targets understand the irony?

12. Member
    Kay of MT

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    Thank God I’ve not contributed to either of those bastards. I’ll have to think about Bing, though.

    I’ve been using Bing for several years and haven’t had any problems. Don’t know how it compares to google.

13. Member
    Randy Webster

    Kay of MT (View Comment):

    Randy Webster (View Comment):
    Thank God I’ve not contributed to either of those bastards. I’ll have to think about Bing, though.

    I’ve been using Bing for several years and haven’t had any problems. Don’t know how it compares to google.

    I’ve not used Goolag since they made their peace with the ChiComs. I’m not sure Bing is any better, though.

14. Thatcher
    RushBabe49

    I have been using DuckDuckGo, and I like it. Their Images site is better than Gulag images. And I’m also going to nick the poster for my blog. Thanks, Brian!

    Edit: Added link to my blog post

15. Member
    The Reticulator

    J. D. Fitzpatrick (View Comment):
    Thanks, guys. Are there alternatives to advertising on Google and FB if one wants to reach a large audience for my business?

    I’m guessing no, but I’d be happy to hear people tell me otherwise.

    Are you telling me that if I were to go back on Facebook, I’d be seeing ads? That wasn’t the case before I deleted my account in January 2015. I’ve been wondering if things have changed since then such that I would now be seeing content that I did not elect to see.

16. Member
    The Reticulator

    The Reticulator (View Comment):

    J. D. Fitzpatrick (View Comment):
    Thanks, guys. Are there alternatives to advertising on Google and FB if one wants to reach a large audience for my business?

    I’m guessing no, but I’d be happy to hear people tell me otherwise.

    Are you telling me that if I were to go back on Facebook, I’d be seeing ads? That wasn’t the case before I deleted my account in January 2015. I’ve been wondering if things have changed since then such that I would now be seeing content that I did not elect to see.

    I should also point out that I don’t have any problem with commercial ads on the web page if they’re clearly identified as ads. If they were items in my “feed,” then I’d have a problem but could probably live with it if they were clearly identified as something that’s not a normal part of the feed. But I hate to go to all the work of setting up an account again just to find out.

17. Inactive
    Nanda Panjandrum

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    If they were items in my “feed,” then I’d have a problem but could probably live with it if they were clearly identified as something that’s not a normal part of the feed. But I hate to go to all the work of setting up an account again just to find out.

    Ret, they’re “sponsored” items in the feed; you can elected to “hide” particular organizations/types of ads, but that just means you get different ads. The thing is a community bulletin board with ads…Just about ready to have family/friends/RicoPeeps outside email/phone/skype me again instead. I’ve had it up to here.

18. Thatcher
    Autistic License

    Is anyone here using Proton Mail? Are you happy with it?

19. Member
    The Reticulator

    Nanda Panjandrum (View Comment):

    The Reticulator (View Comment):
    If they were items in my “feed,” then I’d have a problem but could probably live with it if they were clearly identified as something that’s not a normal part of the feed. But I hate to go to all the work of setting up an account again just to find out.

    Ret, they’re “sponsored” items in the feed; you can elected to “hide” particular organizations/types of ads, but that just means you get different ads. The thing is a community bulletin board with ads…Just about ready to have family/friends/RicoPeeps outside email/phone/skype me again instead. I’ve had it up to here.

    Thanks for the information. I had wondered if it was something like, based on weasel-worded news items about what Facebook was doing these days.

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