Privacy

My policy on privacy? It’s good! So in the interest of full disclosure… Privacy / Tracking I use Hyvor Talk (for comments) to improve your experience while also respecting everyone’s privacy as much as possible. Advertising I partnered with EthicalAds to display small and unobtrusive, technical (mostly software development) ads. Unlike other ad networks, they strive to be privacy-friendly, show relevant products only, and adhere to the Acceptable Ads Standard. Years ago I tried partnering with a typical ad network that went for quantity over quality. Never again. It was a frustrating couple of weeks trying to mess with their wonky tool that, no matter what, seemed to think my visitors wanted lingerie and colon cleansers_._ ...

I was checking the status of a FedEx order when Brave warned me that “this site has been blocked from accessing your motion sensors”. I’m struggling to understand why a website would need that access. Do I get a different experience if I drop my device? Tip my monitor over? Spin the mouse around?

Google provides some amazing tools, but at what cost to privacy? One of the biggest blockers in eliminating them has been finding a reliable and affordable replacement for email (and ideally, calendar, documents, tasks, etc too). Well I may have finally found it, in Mailbox.org.