Also you can simply block/remove cookies for a website if you don't like the idea of having them.
Most (public) websites continue working just fine without them.
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Cookies.
by Lost in the fog ini went to have a look at the jw.
org website recently and i was asked if i would agree to accept cookies.
i don't remember being asked that in the past.
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Cookies.
by Lost in the fog ini went to have a look at the jw.
org website recently and i was asked if i would agree to accept cookies.
i don't remember being asked that in the past.
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And does it make you wonder what they are actually installing on your device to track you?
Not much. Cookies aren't magical spying devices that can track your every move by themselves, or find out your true identity.
They can only be read and written by the site that placed them.
They have no capability beyond having some information written in them by a website, and hat information can later be read by the same website. There's nothing to 'install'.
In this case, jworg uses it to store login information for the secure part of the site. They could also use it to store some information about which articles you read and what search entries you made, so this information can be used to adapt what you see on your next visit.
They also (probably) use it to track individual (yet anonymous and unnamed) users/computers to analyze their visitors' behavior on the website (how often do you visit, how long do you stay, etc).
Their policy also mentions 3rd party cookies but these can hardly be used to let jworg know what other sites you've been visiting (it's technically not entirely impossible, but extremely unlikely as it would probably be very costly and I think even illegal)
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4 Letters Arrived--English and Spanish! (as of 2020-06-19)
by Atlantis in1.--2020-06-18-- english--instructions for our online meetings.. distractions.
noisepreparations.
personal appearance .
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Anders Andersen
Thank you Petra!
I think the picture on the bottom right of the Zoom meeting instruction poster is very fitting. 'The Big Brother elder is watching you and you must obey him and submit to his authority.'
Side node: I feel the new way of distributing the letters is....different. :-P Receiving all letters in my mailbox is awesome! But it also makes me a bit lazy wrt saying thanks or commenting on the letters. And the topic in which the letters are announced have many pages of requests to have the letters PMed, which makes it near impossible to discuss the actual contents of the letters. Anyway the most important things are that these letters are distributed, so thanks again!
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Goodbye and thanks for all the fish
by SuperMarioDiMaggio inok folks, it's been almost two weeks and despite logging a fault, i cannot update my profile on here.
yet i need to run off now as i have exciting godless, hedonistic stuff to do 😉; so i'm leaving my details in this message in case any jws from the past (whose brain eventually started working, like mine) wish to get in touch:.
my email: [email protected].
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@sbf it's a fine restaurant don't put it down like that :-p
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Covid-19 Texas cases spike following George Floyd funeral
by FatFreek 2005 inon tuesday, the george floyd funeral took place.. "on wednesday, texas reported its highest single-day increase in diagnoses since the start of the pandemic, with 2,504 new cases, more than twice as many reported the previous day.
" source, newsweek.com.
just my unprofessional take -- some 30 to 40 percent of attendees did not wear masks.. check for yourself, snippets of video footage, george floyd funeral..
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Anders Andersen
I refuse to wear a damned mask the rest of my life. This isn't China or some other third-world ----hole!
Yeah, everybody knows that only people in China and shithole countries need to protect themselves from diseases. People in civilized countries do not need any such protection! After all, whenever a virus or other disease causing thingy enters a civilized country, it will properly announce itself at the border. If permitted entry, it will ask potential hosts for permission to enter their body. No protection needed, because only stupid people in shithole countries protect themselves from disease....right?
Fun fact: when people in Asia wear face masks, the main reason is to protect the people around them, not themselves.
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2 More Letters Arrived! (as of 2020-06-09)
by Atlantis in2 letters arrived.. .
2020-06-04--directions relating to covid-19----6 page letter.
2020-06-04--announcement.
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Thanks!
From the Covid19 instructions:
SECULAR AUTHORITIES
Well well...somebody tell the brothers in Russia that they're in jail for nothing then?
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More on SARS-CoV-2
by TD inbelow is a link to a peer reviewed paper by virologists and vaccine experts birger sørensen and angus dalgleish.
according to the study, which was published in the quarterly review of biophysics, the coronavirus’s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.
to my knowledge, this is the first solid piece of evidence that this pandemic may have been man-made.. (emphasis on "may" --i'm sure this is not the last word on the subject).
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@Hairtrigger,
I appreciate you having the honesty to withdraw your mistaken comment.
General hint: if any message is received with a request to forward it to as many people as possible, it's likely useless or not true. It should be standard operating procedure for everyone to first verify of the information is true or not before forwarding/reposting.
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More on SARS-CoV-2
by TD inbelow is a link to a peer reviewed paper by virologists and vaccine experts birger sørensen and angus dalgleish.
according to the study, which was published in the quarterly review of biophysics, the coronavirus’s spike protein contains sequences that appear to be artificially inserted.
to my knowledge, this is the first solid piece of evidence that this pandemic may have been man-made.. (emphasis on "may" --i'm sure this is not the last word on the subject).
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Here some information that might bring some more light (use Google Translate):
https://www.nrk.no/norge/norsk-forsker-skaper-strid-om-virusets-opphav_-_-dette-viruset-har-ikke-en-naturlig-opprinnelse-1.15043634
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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?
by minimus ini agree with people who say all lives matter.
i think blm is a racist group.
if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..
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And in response to the OP:
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Black Lives Matter—Do You Agree With Their Philosophy?
by minimus ini agree with people who say all lives matter.
i think blm is a racist group.
if white people pushed an agenda saying white lives matter, some people would have a conniption..
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There is a way to solve it. Eliminate or drastically reduce your encounters with the police. How? Don’t break the law
Could it be that non-white people have a higher chance to be approached by police, whether or not they are law-abiding?
Could it be that more frequent run ins with police isn't just a matter of being law-abiding, but also (partly) by reason of racial bias?
https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/findings/
Could it be that if upstanding citizen Johnny White is stopped for nothing once, he is slightly annoyed, while upstanding citizen Johnny Brown, who is stopped for nothing for the 10th time this year may be slightly more likely to let the officer know he's really pissed off, and antagonize the officer with his words?
And without regards to race: do people who commit minor crimes deserve to die for that? Why do police on the USA kill so many people when compared to other Western countries? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_by_country
Might it be possible there are some systemic issues beyond "well they shouldn't break the law if they don't want to be killed by police"?