(08-09-2020, 09:34 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(08-09-2020, 05:54 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: I have Nord VPN now and was able to sign into Netflix with no problem. From what you folks are saying, there might be issues from time to time but nothing that can't be overcome by going into the settings.

Using SF's lead, DuckDuckGo is now my default search engine. However, I can say with certainty it doesn't give the depth of results that Google can. If needed, it can always be accessed. I'm trying to get away from Google. While handy, it seems to be getting a little...creepy. It gives me ad popups for things that I swear I've never searched for but was thinking about. No, I don't think it can read my mind, but it seems to be building quite the algorithm of my preferences. That's a little too Big Brotherish for me.

Have you ever had conversations about a particular item only to see an ad for said item pop up on your phone?

My funny story regarding that is one day I was going through some old guitar magazines and found a piece of music that looked interesting to play. I had never heard the piece before nor had I heard of the musician that played it. I learned the piece and worked it up how I thought it should sound, then went to youtube to seach for it to see how close I was. I got the first two letters of the guy's first name and the rest populated, including the song title. At that point, I assumed I nailed it.

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