Due to my growing unease about how much data google collects from everyone who use their products including Chrome, which was my preferred browser, I spent the entire day transferring every open chrome tab I had to Firefox. Now that I try to use it to post I think that was a huge mistake. As I have the setting it is unusable. It wont even display tweets. Plus posting is a nightmare the way I do it when using Firefox. I may have to spend another day changing everything back as I don’t know if I can transfer tabs between computers as I use to with Chrome to clean one. It better be better when I start tomorrow or I am going back to big brother. Hugs. Scottie
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I use three browsers … Firefox, Chrome, and Opera … each has good points and each has flaws. Overall, of the three, I think Chrome is probably the best, or at least the most reliable. Hugs
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I too use multiple browsers. My default browser is Vivaldi as it is the most customisable browser out of the box. As it has multiple ways of managing inactive tabs, it seems to remain more responsive as the number of tabs increases. It also provides the most privacy out of the box. Vivaldi allows you to place tabs across the top, bottom, left or right of the window. As I have a wide screen, I keep my tabs on the left, allowing me to have more tabs visible without the need to stack them. See https://vivaldi.com/#browser-features for Vivaldi features.
I have it syncing bookmarks, settings, passwords, autofill, history, extensions, reading lists, tabs, and notes across two desktops, two laptops and my android phone, but these are all customisable.
The default browser on Kubuntu is Firefox, but of all the browsers I use it seems to have the worst performance, not to mention the fact that customisation is via plugins and often break whenever Firefox updates. For this reason it’s the browser I use least.
Up to version 12, I was an ardent Opera fan, but their dropping of the integrated email client without notice spelt the end of that. Those were the days when mail was mostly POP3 with mail stored locally instead of on the mail server. Losing 10 years of business related email was the nail in the coffin for that relationship. I still have Opera on some of my devices but it’s seldom used.
I also occasionally use Microsoft Edge on my desktops and Copilot on my phone. Other browsers I use occasionally include Chromium, and Konqueror. However I don’t use Chrome because of proved/claimed/rumoured privacy issues.
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Hi Barry. I thank you greatly for the information. I am going to Vivaldi. I also have started to distrust Chrome, but for my needs it functions the best, but still I am not happy using it.
I tried to download and learn Opera, but it has only unsecured sites and my computer setting won’t let it connect to unsecured sites. So I am not sure about that.
Your computer skills are far better than mine so I appreciate your input. My biggest issue right now is the way that WordPress have changed the blogging page, I can not post images in the classic mode which is how I post. I am not sure if it is my new settings or something WordPress is doing. I have been told by their support that the company wants to get rid of the classic mode, and go entirely to the block editor. Slowly over the last two years they have been chipping away at the functionality of the classic mode.
Thanks again. Best wishes. Scottie
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I am still able to post images and such using the classic mode on WP, Scottie, so I wonder if it might be something in your settings? Yes, I’ve heard the same … that WP is planning to ditch the Classic editor at some point. I hope they don’t, for I have no desire to have to learn how to use their other “blocks”. I’ve got better things to do with my time! Hugs
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Hello Jill. Yes I agree. They quickly changed something so I could again post images, but I have been using the Vivaldi for a few days and I love it. And it doesn’t data mine like Chrome and is more useable than Firefox. I found a way to set the settings easier, when I pull up settings there is a search box, type in what I want and there it is. There are some differences in terms, like open tabs are called sessions. I love it, so much more I can do with it and for a techie like me it is great, but for non-techies the functionality is so easy and smooth they will love it also. One thing I love is at set up they have you set up an encryption password. Write it down. The reason is if you have multiple computers like me to even sync settings, to send bookmarks and passwords to a different computer it is encrypted so you need the password, and that is the great thing, the company is so into your privacy that they don’t have access to your information, your bookmarked places, or your passwords. So I am really enjoying this new browser. What I like is I can easily reopen all my tabs if I close my computer down for the night. They allow me to choose how many days of open tabs that I want to reopen. Like I said everything about it including how easy it is for me to adjust the screen so I can see it well is another plus. Hugs. Scottie
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Wow … sounds like you’ve really bonded with Vivaldi! I started to download it, then stopped, for I knew the setup would likely take a couple of hours that I didn’t have at that moment, but sometime this week I’m definitely going to, since you’ve convinced me that it is so good! Thanks, Scottie! Hugs
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Thanks for the info about Vivaldi … I’m going to check that one out … I hadn’t heard of it until just now, but it sounds quite good!
I don’t install the Firefox updates, haven’t for years, so it still pretty much works for me, except lately I’ve run into problems when trying to insert or edit a link in my WordPress posts.
I mainly only use Opera for checking out news and other stories. The thing I most like about it is the ability to put sites you visit often into menus on the desktop, making it much easier to find what I’m looking for.
I only recently heard about the privacy issues with Chrome … hmmmm … I might have to consider giving that one up. I’ll definitely check into Vivaldi this afternoon! Thanks, Barry!
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Hi Jill. I love the browser. The function is great along with a high security that doesn’t stop sites from working. Set up takes a while, as they let you customize everything. If you want a short cut to something like opening links in a new tab open settings and put it in the little search box. Once I got the setting right including for me the auto saving of open tabs to recall if I close the browser I love it. As for links in posting, sadly that is a change WordPress made that I am struggling with also as you can see in the next few posts. I always use the classic box which WordPress wants to get rid of, so they are making it harder and harder to use. Now to post a tweet or a link I have to go out of the classic box to a new block line or I lose all the work above. I lost three hours of work on my memes post because of that this morning. Hugs Scottie
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I will definitely give Vivaldi a try this weekend … I’ve been reading some of the reviews and they are all positive. I’m so sorry WP is giving you so much trouble these days! It can be a royal pain sometimes. Hugs
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Hi Jill. I just replied to you with a glowing and information filled comment on the Vivaldi browser. For the first time I think someone made a browser that works, that blocks tracking, that blocks data mining yet still works great with out fail for the end user. Plus you don’t have to have extensions to block ads and other stuff, you can select it in settings. Great thing it doesn’t block twitter from appearing ok like like Firefox did.
Sadly WordPress is what it is and they can’t change much there. Plus one disadvantage is that I can no long make the bell notification block stretch endlessly by doing a highlight and drag down to the end of the window. But the good thing is I can answer comments in the page they are posted on with spell check, which I couldn’t with the other browsers. So far I love the Vivaldi browser. Hugs. Scottie
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Good to know!!! No, no browser will be able to ‘fix’ the glitches of WordPress, and the WP “Happiness Engineers” are all AI now, I think, and don’t seem too interested in fixing what’s broke. Ah well … such is life in the blogosphere!
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So true Jill. Plus even though they keep making things harder they are still the best platform to blog with … for now. They are to interconnected with too many other bloggers making it easy to follow and read other’s sites. But I have no doubt they will mess that up also. Hugs Scottie
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I know a couple of bloggers who left WordPress and are blogging elsewhere now, but they don’t have near the readership they once had, nor the interactions with their ‘blogging family’. So, if I leave WP, I’ll likely just stop blogging altogether, and I don’t want to do that … at least not just yet. So, I’ll stick with it for now. Hugs
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Hi Jill. I agree. I did what you said, I left WordPress to go to the sister of them by one of WordPress co-founders. It was a nightmare to use and set up. I gave up after a year with another year or more on my subscription. I talked to Ron and he told me it was worth it to go back and pay the price as blogging was my life now, it was my world. Physically I can not get out, I can’t do much, but online I can talk to people all over the world and find things to keep my mind going along with keeping my interest in life up.
Lets face it, without my blog I would be sitting / laying watching movies and videos with no interaction which would let my memories overwhelm me while causing me to lose connection to the rest of the world.
We know this because in 1997 I was put in a wheelchair by my surgeon trying to keep my leg bones and hip joints from totally decaying. I couldn’t walk more than to stand up or move a couple feet. Because of the steep steps / ramp I couldn’t leave the house without help and Ron worked day shifts. I sat in that house reading newspapers and watching TV so when Ron got home I unloaded on him, talked non-stop about unimportant things all upset about nothing. I would rage about unimportant things.
Ron talked to my surgeon because it was becoming a big problem. The doctor told him to look at the differences in our worlds. Ron left in the morning, drove through town, met people, had things to do, some were challenging, went shopping, interacted with people. What was my world … only what was in the walls of our home. That was my world.
So Ron figured out a plan. The internet was new, but he painted a house to get an older computer at that time and we signed up for AOL. It was crap, he got screwed but it was my lifeline. And it was when we realized I was really good with computers despite no formal training. I kept that old piece of crap running. Our lives got a lot easier and I stopped dumping on Ron every time he walked into the door.
Fast forward to a few years ago when I was in tears with frustration with the fake WordPress. We agreed I would give up the failed second attempt and open this one. I would say it has accomplished the goals. My access to the world, my connection to wonderful friends / people has all been restored, and my world is again far bigger than the walls of my home. Hugs. Scottie
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Jill Dennison, I don’t know if it would make a difference, however, WordPress might possible have resources that could help you.
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Such as?
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Customer service might have some information. The website itself might have some details that can help you.
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I have contacted WP’s customer service more thn once, and have found it to be most UNhelpful. Customer service is AI nowadays, not actual humans.
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Jill Dennison, how many employees at these companies were fired over refusal to bow to medical mandates that are unethical, unconstitutional, even illegal under the Nuremberg Code?
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Ragnar. Damn you. I went over that code with you very carefully. US medical codes and business mandates for vaccines in no way qualifies as against the code. The vaccine was not experimental against prisoners choice. You had the choice not to take it, just quit your job. You are not promised the right to a job in the constitution. The code was for totally different circumstances. You know this yet you bring it up again. What is your Problem! You don’t want to admit you were wrong, lied to, or are you paid to push stupid easily debunked points. What ever it is. Mention the subject again here and you will be banned. I am very tired of spending weeks going over something with you only to have you pull it on another guest here. I WILL NOT HAVE IT! So think carefully on your comments. Scottie
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Scottie, that is where you are flat out wrong. The same holds true for people who exercised right of refusal under the claim that the vaccines while they were experimental were not protected by the Nuremberg Code.
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Ragnar. You have no idea of what you are talking about. Before I put the very codes for you in a reply. First they are an ethnic code that has no force over other countries. Why do you think they are called codes and not laws or courts?
The reason they were used against Nazis is that the allies beat them in a war and we ran the show. They have no force in a country other than what that country wants. Again they are not laws. They are not laws! They are codes of ethics. And the part about medical experiments done without consent was about the medical experiments done on POWs and the Jewish people in concentration camps. It talks about prisoners. You are not a prisoner. The issue you and other antivaxxers don’t like is businesses including Fox News corp who had hosts spreading lies about the vaccine, required it for working there. Guess what, if you did not want the shot you were not held down and it forced into you. You just lost your job, or you quit. Get it, you were never forced, you had a choice. You were not a prisoner, It was not done to you against your will.
The Nuremberg ethics codes specify against people who had no choice, they were prisoners.
Now think of it this way. If a prison took each inmate and restrained them, then injected them, that is an ethics violation per the codes. But again that is against US laws and medical ethnics but that is not what the average person on the street faced. They jsut were frefused intry to stores, other places, or had to choose between their job and their not wanting the vaccine.
And here is the kicker. If it happened. Say a country did that. Say the US forced every person here to get the shot, rounded them up and restrained them, gave them the injection … that is no Nuremberg Code police force or military that is going to do a damn thing about it. Because the code is an ethnic code, not any legally binding laws that are protected by treaty. Do you understand now? To have it binding like the international court, you have to have a treaty with enforcement mechanism. The code doesn’t have any of that.
So again we have covered this issue. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, the Nuremberg Code prohibits coercive medical experimentation.
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Yes Ragnar. That is an ethnic violation as I said to force people to undergo medical procedures or be injected against their will without their consent. Again no laws broken but it is a violation of a guideline.
No one in the US was forced to take the vaccine, not even school kids. You don’t want the vaccine, you suffer the consequences of not working there or being able to shop there. If you don’t want your child to be vaccinated they simply don’t get to go to school. No one is holding anyone down and injecting them, no one is taking kids from parents and injecting them.
The problem is you and other anti vaccine people want to not take the vaccines nor suffer the consequences. You want your cake and be able to eat it also. You want it both ways. Nothing in the world works that way. You want to flaunt the rules and not be called on it
In a society people have to work to a common good. This was a public health emergency, mass deaths, hospital systems overrun, over worked, out of supplies. People should have been willing to do what was necessary to help cut down the infections and death. Instead some selfish people felt masks and safe distances were too damn much to ask to save someone else’s lives. All because right wing media had to drum up outrage against Biden for political advantage and money. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, agreed on all counts. Having said that, Point #1 of the Nuremberg Code applies to Covid vaccines.
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No Ragnar. They do not. Covid vaccines were not experimental. We covered this before. One more time.
That was a temporary designation given by the US government to the vaccine makers so they could skip the long term trial. They had already done the short trials, and all the testing. They did that to speed up delivery to the public because people were dying. Here is how it works. Instead of the long trial, which has long since past 100 times over by the way, a committee of experts gets together, go over every part of the data, the tests, the subject reactions, everything. Then these medical experts determine if the data is good enough to skip the long term testing. I am not sure, but I think the long term is 6 months. But it doesn’t matter, people have been getting the vaccine longer than 6 months.
The medical experiments that the code talks about were the medical experiments done by the Nazi on POWs and on Jewish concentrations camp prisoners. They couldn’t consent, did not consent and had horrific medical experiments done to them. Please read the history of Josef Rudolf Mengele and Herta Oberheuser. That is what the code was talking about.
As long as you have a choice the ethics of consent doesn’t apply. As long as no one holds you down and injects you against your will the code doesn’t apply. You had a choice, everyone in the US had a choice. As I said anti Covid people wanted to not have the shot and not suffer the consequences. It doesn’t work that way. If you have a medical exception fine, but if not you either get the vaccine or you change jobs or stayed out of stores. I hope this clears it up for you. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, Robert W. Malone indicated that the mRNA technology was never adequately tested. If someone indicates that certain technologies that were used to create medicines or vaccines had never been adequately tested, I would rather see all of the data and make up my own mind on the subject if the risks were worth it.
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Ragnar. See this is why it is so frustrating to try to talk with you. We have been all over this.
First you do not have the schooling or medical background to understand the data no matter what it says. Accept that. I don’t either. It takes trained professional who spend years in the field of study to understand it. All you or I can do is take someone else’s written or verbal assessment by watching or reading what they say.
But here is the thing, Ragnar. They don’t have the qualifications to understand the data either. Not one of these right wing hosts promoting this stuff and showing Malone on their shows has any more medical knowledge or schooling than you or I do. They are trying to push a narrative to make money and stir up political hate.
Regardless of what right wing media has told you, looking at internet videos of this Malone guy is not going to inform you enough to understand the issue. First you are hearing one side, the side he and the host want you to hear so they make profit off it.
Facts Ragnar. Many people after Malone worked on the technology after him. He was not the final maker. I explained this to you. He worked to make the model T car, but today modern car engineers make far more complex cars. Can you understand that? He worked on a prototype that other people took and developed in to the finished working product.
I don’t know why Malone is so greedy for attention, but that is what it is. He was bypassed, he was not included in the last decades of work on this. He has a grudge to hold on to. Furthermore, he is being paid to sabotage the vaccine on air by wealthy right wing media companies.
Again and hopefully for the last time. He worked with a team that devolved something. Great. Then other people went on and refined it, worked it over, made it better, and then figured out how to make successful vaccines with it.
Not only that, many new vaccines are being done on that new and improved tech of mRNA as it has improved so much since Malone’s time working on it.
Ragnar understand two things. First Malone has an ax to grind because he was not part of any of the new teams, they did not want him. Second the political climate and the profit to be made to oppose Biden at every turn by the right wing media. They wanted to discredit and destroy Biden for defeating trump. So they paid this man to spout his out of date incorrect stuff and played it for people like you to watch / hear and suck up like a sponge. And it worked. But they lied to you. They lied to you for their profit and gain. No fault of yours, you thought they would be telling the truth, but they had other motives. So that lead to a horribly divided country on a life saying issue.
Ragnar ever wonder what happened in Europe. They did not have the US right wing media, and they instituted full lock-downs, paid people to stay at home, they had safe delivery of good, all the things the right here in the US cried was against our freedoms. Guess what their people gladly did it and … and … and
THEY SAVED MILLIONS OF LIVES IN THEIR COUNTRIES. They did not have unmasked people trying to enter stores and make a scene.
They acted like decent people understanding the problem. Hugs Scottie
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Scottie, this makes sense.
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Hi Ragnar but if you look back both Jill and I have been that route. WordPress help chat is not able to help with a lot of things. In fact, I lost my first blog with over a couple million hits and thousands of followers due to a spam complaint against the blog that they wouldn’t tell me or help me clear. There was no way the blog can spam someone, but I was attacking a spam network on a different blog, so they told WordPress I was spamming them. Because I did not know how to respond I lost over a decade and half of work and a lot of my personal history I put on the blog. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I am not arguing the matter. Just trying to be helpful.
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Hi Ragnar. I think you misunderstood me. I was trying to explain how bad dealing with WordPress help can be. In all the years I have had blogs I never found support helpful, and when I called the help numbers I got people in India who said their name was Max, Fred, or Harry, or Sally or the like. They couldn’t help and said someone would get back to me. No one ever did. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I have WordPress for my blog and have never had this issue. Maybe it is my computer’s operating system, Linux Mint, maybe something else, however, I am not having this issue.
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Hi Ragnar. Or many you don’t post like Jill and I do or others. Your posts are rare compared to our schedules. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I just have to find the right stuff to review.
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Hi Ragnar. But that is my point, isn’t it? Jill and I, and now Roger, all do far more posting than you. We each have different issues with WordPress that their help systems can not help with. Roger signed on to his blog and found half hi stuff missing, including comments. When he used the help lines, they said they couldn’t help him with the issue. HUgs. Scottie
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Scottie, I am not a computer genius, so I may not be the most qualified to offer advice. Having said that, based on how my blog is structured, I have not had this problem.
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Hi Jill. After a long trial I changed entirely to Vivaldi. I love it. Once I got the setting correct for me, it works better than Chrome, Firefox, Tor, or any other browser I tried. I love it. I can even shut it down clean my computer of tracking traces and other stuff, then reopen it and click on sessions to restore the many pages I had open before. I wish I had known of it long ago. The only problem I had is it took me days of fiddling to get the settings correct for me. Vivaldi lets you adjust and set for everything it seems. Compared to other browsers this one is so user friendly. I hope you try it and give it a chance. I love it. Hugs. Scottie
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That’s great to know, Scottie!!! I will definitely give it a shot, then, for I’m tired of switching back and forth between three browsers throughout the day! I’ll let you know how it goes!
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Jill Dennison, at the risk of offering unsolicited advice, I think that Linux Mint software might help you with some of the issues you are reporting. If the issue is with WordPress itself, I have never had that problem.
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P.S. Hugs!
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Hi Jill. I love the functionality of Chrome. I have used it and recommended it for years. But it is a huge data miner for Google. Seriously they scoop everything they can from everything done on their browser even in incognito mode. After all the marketing of us the consumer to others is a huge and lucrative business. I don’t really like that much anymore.
I tried to download Opera, but I only allow my computers to go to secured sites and the Opera site is not, so it is blocked to me. I do want to find a better browser to post with because right now I can’t post as I use to.
Do you post in classic mode? The last few days every time I try to post an image it deletes the classic part of the post and makes it a block. I hate that. I know WordPress is trying hard to make everyone go to the damn block editor but I hate it. I need to find a workaround. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie and Jill Dennison, Vivaldi, Mozilla Firefox, Brave web browser and Chromium web browser are reliable. I use Brave web browser and Vivaldi web browser.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. I looked into Brave and it came online about the same time as Vivaldi. Brave and Vivaldi are both based on the same Chromium tech. Both have the same ratings for privacy and safety. Both have the same extensive settings menu. One difference. Brave was started in California, and Vivaldi is a Norwegian country from all I can find out. Good Choices on both.
Question. How did you decide on these two browsers? Were they suggested to you? Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, both systems seemed to have a greater orientation toward internet security and privacy. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is also a good security measure.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. I agree except don’t use a virtual VPN. They are not really secure. But there are a lot of good VPNs that use actual servers around the world. Also never use peer to peer networks even with a VPN. The computer that hosts the peer access point can see all your traffic. One thing to check before you choose a VPN is if they log your traffic. A lot of affordable (cheap) or included VPNs log every connection and site you visit so that if asked by law enforcement they can give then that. Be safe. I prefer NordVPN, but there are other good ones such as Proton Mail. Also remember that programs such as spell check and ad blockers also record and sent do the company behind them what you write and the places you visit. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, Nord VPN is very secure.
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Yes that is why I choose it. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I am not surprised.
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Hey Ragnarsbhut. Why doesn’t it surprise you? Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, due to that being a system I am familiar with.
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Hi Ragnarsbhut. Hey first can we have a name for you other than that long blog title I use? Everyone else I deal with gives me their name to reply to as it is easier.
But I am confused why you think a system, a computer program you are familiar with I shouldn’t know about. I am not following that line of thought. Please fill me in. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, my actual name is Ragnar Snedeker. The operating system, if that is what you refer to, is called Linux Mint.
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Hi Ragnar. No I think you misread my reply. You seemed surprised I would use a top rated VPN. I asked why you would think that. Here is what I wrote / asked. But I am confused why you think a system, a computer program you are familiar with I shouldn’t know about. You implied that because you knew about this program I wouldn’t? I asked why. As for your operating system, I have heard good things about it but I find it to time consuming to deal with. We all have our preferred OS and I was trained on Windows, worked on Windows machines, and so feel more comfortable with it. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, I have some experiences with Microsoft, however, very limited. Due to disagreement with Bill Gates ideologically, I have not done business with that company for personal reasons.
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Hi Ragnar. I have differences of opinion with Bill Gates on business practices but he is not installing computer chip or Nanobots in vaccines.
But back to your school day. How many days a week did you do lesson? Where did you do your lessons, the kitchen table perhaps? Whose text books did you use. See these are important questions that would help me evaluate your schooling experience, and education level. Hugs. Scottie
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Scottie, Monday through Friday per the usual day. However, I got to have some influence in the crafting of the curriculum.
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