Ysarex
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This is a test. Made the mistake of reading the news before I left the house to walk to the grocery store. That put me in a foul mood realizing Congress just sold me lock stock and barrel to my ISP: Congress Overturns Internet Privacy Regulation
Now Charter gets to log everything I (and my wife) do on the Internet and sell that info to whoever they want without notification or request. So walking and thinking, I just kept stewing over this and it p*sses me off. Then in an alley on the way home I came across this:
And I figured it was a sign and it was time to fight back. So first thing I did when I got home was download and install the TOR browser: Tor Project: Anonymity Online It was a trivial install.
I'm using it now, routing through eastern Europe in the last few minutes and it's working just fine. It was amusing to try and do a Google search. Google apparently figures out what's going on and refuses to execute a search. Apparently the cost to use Google is very real if you find a way to circumvent it. Bing works just fine.
Charter gets paid every month for the service they provide. They don't need to sell me on top of that and neither do my government reps.
Joe
Now Charter gets to log everything I (and my wife) do on the Internet and sell that info to whoever they want without notification or request. So walking and thinking, I just kept stewing over this and it p*sses me off. Then in an alley on the way home I came across this:
And I figured it was a sign and it was time to fight back. So first thing I did when I got home was download and install the TOR browser: Tor Project: Anonymity Online It was a trivial install.
I'm using it now, routing through eastern Europe in the last few minutes and it's working just fine. It was amusing to try and do a Google search. Google apparently figures out what's going on and refuses to execute a search. Apparently the cost to use Google is very real if you find a way to circumvent it. Bing works just fine.
Charter gets paid every month for the service they provide. They don't need to sell me on top of that and neither do my government reps.
Joe