On 1/30/2015 7:20 PM, Mayayana wrote:
You don't say what "accounts and settings is. It
looks like settings for a cellphone. given what you
said about AV I'd assumed you were talking about
Windows.

A couple of thoughts:

* I'd agree about avoiding anything from Symantec.
It's all bloated junk. Avira causes too many false
positives. I've installed Avast for friends, as the lesser
of the evils. Personally I don't use AV and would never
use Malwarebytes. It's not that I don't think people
should use them. It's just that they take a lot of
resources and don't work very well. The whole idea is
outdated. But for people who don't know how to protect
from malware, AV is better than nothing.

* Cookies: A lot of sites won't work without cookies,
but they don't have to be a privacy problem. In Firefox
one can block 3rd-party cookies and set it to delete
all cookies when FF is closed.

* LinkedIn, Facebook: No one who cares about privacy
at all could possibly use LinkedIn or Facebook or GMail
or Chrome or anything else from Google. That's the simple
fact of the matter.

They only compromise privacy as much as users allow them to. The default
settings are awful and need to be changed but they know that few users
will take the time to do so. Tracking needs to be disabled and
advertising needs to be blocked. It's not all that different than
putting yourself on the Do Not Call list, filtering out the problem
posters and tea-baggers on alt.home.repair and other Usenet groups,
having an unlisted phone number, and opting out of direct mail
advertising. Yes it requires a small amount of effort, but there are
benefits to sites like LinkedIn as well.