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TheGateKeeper:
I found this site and man what an eye opener! I always kind of assumed that they keep track of all that stuff, kind of like the T-vo thing, but I guess what my question is what can i do about it? I am a windows user and would like as much privacy as possible. Does every Os do this? it seems like if one does it, why wouldnt they all do it? so inconclusion, what I am getting to is, what OS do you guys use? or are we all just having are privacy not so private. so it doesnt matter what we do?

Laukev7:
No, Windows is the only OS that tracks the movements of the users. Mac OS X and other UNIX-like OSes like Linux and FreeBSD are well documented and/or open source, and their browsers are not integrated in the OS like Explorer.

TheGateKeeper:
wow, thank man thats what i was looking for.

Xeen:
I use Windows 2000 and will never ever switch to XP or beyond. Windows 2000 is the last decent Windows version. XP and beyond is pure crap and always will be until MS rewrites it from scratch and starts doing what consumers and computer literate people actually want.

However, even though I use Win2000, I do not use any other MS software with it. I do not use Internet Explorer, no outlook, no office, no media player...none of that shit. There are lots of other alternatives that are much more better and sophisticated. I recommend you do the same.

M51DPS:

quote:Originally posted by TheGateKeeper:
...but I guess what my question is what can i do about it?
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First of all, stop using windows. Switch to one of the alternatives like Mac OS X or a free Unix-like system. Even if you find you can't get off of windows entirely, there's no reason you can't switch to non-microsoft apps for windows.

Next you need to talk to your friends/family/co-workers/etc and convince them to do the same.

Good luck with switching.  

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