On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 05:29:02AM -0500, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:

> I do not 'know' but I think that its the browsers that are driving a
> lot of the system problems. The intense demand from every stinking
> big company to know absolutely everything that they can get about
> anyone that is even just browsing pages is - - - imo - - - mind
> boggling.

Yes, but the beginnings of this problem are much earlier than most
would like to admit. Even before "the Internet".

> I would really like if my browser would give absolutely NO
> information to a site which I visit - - - not even anything about my
> system. Do not know how to go about doing that. - - - - Maybe its
> time to start using TOR - - - what say you?

Tor works fine (if you don't mind pages loading slowly), but it is
not a complete solution by itself. You also have to mask other facts
than your IP address. And unfortunately, already using Linux and
even Firefox already cuts the search space by someting like factor
of 10000 I think.

--
Ian