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<blockquote data-quote="Max Roscoe" data-source="post: 1344435" data-attributes="member: 17845">Yeah I used duckduckgo off and on.&nbsp; The other day I saw a BILLBOARD for them in my town.&nbsp; Now, I know they aren't doing this for charity, but when they are taking out billboard ads encouraging you to use their free service, that's when I know there's a bit too much spying of my internet usage going on.&nbsp; I use start page.com which gives 2 text ads in your search results every time you search.&nbsp; It's easy to automatically scroll past them.Really the most important advice is never create an account for any free service.&nbsp; I never had a YouTube account, though I watched a bunch of videos there.&nbsp; One day, I noticed YouTube had my full name on their page, begging me &quot;Max Roscoe, don't you want to comment on this video?&quot; Hah.&nbsp;&nbsp; A more pathetic case of entrapment I have not seen.&nbsp; They got my name from my gmail account, since gmail and YouTube are owned by the same massive spider.&nbsp; Don't ever create an account for a free service (I understand a free email account with your real name but even that is not a great idea), and if you do, make it a unique account (ie not the same user name you are using here) and never use your primary email or real phone # to register.&nbsp; Never, ever, ever, ever do that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Max Roscoe, post: 1344435, member: 17845"] Yeah I used duckduckgo off and on. The other day I saw a BILLBOARD for them in my town. Now, I know they aren't doing this for charity, but when they are taking out billboard ads encouraging you to use their free service, that's when I know there's a bit too much spying of my internet usage going on. I use start page.com which gives 2 text ads in your search results every time you search. It's easy to automatically scroll past them. Really the most important advice is never create an account for any free service. I never had a YouTube account, though I watched a bunch of videos there. One day, I noticed YouTube had my full name on their page, begging me "Max Roscoe, don't you want to comment on this video?" Hah. A more pathetic case of entrapment I have not seen. They got my name from my gmail account, since gmail and YouTube are owned by the same massive spider. Don't ever create an account for a free service (I understand a free email account with your real name but even that is not a great idea), and if you do, make it a unique account (ie not the same user name you are using here) and never use your primary email or real phone # to register. Never, ever, ever, ever do that. [/QUOTE]

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