WEBVTT - DuckDuckGo not as private as you might think 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.800 Duck Duck, don't pass Go, Google lets you go back 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:19.400 in time. Walmart expands drone delivery. Plus your tech questions Answered. 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:20.200 What's going on? 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.000 I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:25.360 podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:28.520 you should know about. It's also the place where I 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:32.159 answer the questions you send me. I'm a tech reporter 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:36.200 at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Usually I open 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:38.680 the show by saying, I hope you are having a 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:39.880 fantastic day. 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:42.800 But honestly, with everything that's been going on in the. 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:45.760 News lately, I try not to let that seep into 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:50.600 my show, but you know, with what's happening in Texas, 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.840 it's just inevitable. I can't. I am a human being. 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:58.320 I cannot just ignore what's going on. And so with 0:00:58.400 --> 0:01:01.120 that said, I have had a very very very heavy 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:05.319 heart for the past couple of days. Just learned about 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.480 that story when I was hopping on a plane back 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.080 from Las Vegas and I just, you know, quickly was 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.040 going to turn off my phone and I saw a headline. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.160 I'm like, wait a second, that can't be right. 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.880 That number can't be right, and that number just continue 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:23.080 to grow and it just you know, I've got two kids. 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.560 Obviously this effects or I guess it touches everyone, but 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:28.279 when you have. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.759 Kids, especially in school at that. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.360 Age, it's really really just I mean, basically, it's just 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.480 really tough. So anyway, I've been on the news for 0:01:38.480 --> 0:01:40.840 the past couple of days. I haven't really said anything, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:44.760 but it's just one of those things where anything and 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.640 everything I talk about at this point just seems so 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.280 insignificant compared to what those families are going through, what 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.360 those children went through, what those teachers went through. And 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.120 so I do want to let you know that I 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.560 am thinking about all of those families, and you know, 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.160 we've got to have something change here in America because 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.680 I can't. I just can't keep watching this stuff happen. 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.960 And I don't know what the solution is. I think 0:02:10.000 --> 0:02:14.120 I have an idea, but it's just definitely seems like 0:02:14.240 --> 0:02:16.399 it's it's really tough to find. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.120 Some sort of solution that people can agree on. 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:23.280 Anyway, With that said, let's get to the first sort 0:02:23.320 --> 0:02:24.600 of topic of the day. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.000 So I have been using this. 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.360 I did a story on this probably a year ago, 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.359 and it's a story on this website called Privacy dot 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.440 com and it was part of a bigger story. But 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:40.320 what this website allows you to do is pretty much 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:45.520 use your debit card or your bank account online and 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:49.920 it creates one time disposable use credit cards. And so 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.080 you might be thinking, well, why would I need this, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.000 I already have a credit card. Well, when you've had 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:58.920 your credit card taken twice in the past three months 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.959 like I have now, to be fair, the first time 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.760 my credit card number was stolen, I don't know how. 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.679 The second time, I left my credit card at a restaurant, 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.800 And so I don't know if I told you this, 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.240 but I went to Disneyland and I did not use 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.239 my credit card at all the entire day. I used 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:20.920 Tap to Pay for every single transaction except when I 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:24.080 was in the restaurant. And when I went to the restaurant, 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.160 you could not use tap to pay. You have to 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.560 use your card. And so if you listen to my podcast, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.639 you know I have a rule. If my card leaves 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:36.280 my hand, I'm always default. Okay, let me just go 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.240 through my rules. I default to Tap to pay and 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.160 my debit card. So default is if I'm paying for something, 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.320 I use tap to pay, which is you know, Apple 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.360 pay or Android pay, and I will tap to pay 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.800 using my debit card unless it's a huge purchase, and 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:54.120 then I'll use my credit card usually, but anyway, so 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:55.440 that's the number one. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.280 If they don't accept tap to pay. 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.920 I will use my debit card card as long as 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.440 I can insert it into you know, the chip reader. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.520 If they don't have a chip reader, or if my 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.920 card leaves my hand, So if it physically leaves my hand, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.640 I will use my credit card because it's a little 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.839 bit safer. If my number gets out there, I don't 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.520 care as much. But anyway, so at the restaurant, I 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.680 use my credit card, and of course I forget it. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:25.080 The one time that I use my card in the 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:29.600 entire day, I leave it at the restaurant. Now maybe 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:33.520 it had to do with the glass of wine I had, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:37.719 I don't know, but I left it there. And this 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:42.480 was the Lamplighter Lounge, by the way. So the funny 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.280 thing is the I won't even go into that anyway. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.680 It's just someone at the someone at the Lamplighter Lounge 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:53.000 at Disneyland got my got a nice souvenir from me. 0:04:53.680 --> 0:04:56.640 But the point is I just got that card because 0:04:56.680 --> 0:05:00.200 a couple months earlier, back in February, I use my 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.200 card at another place and it was instantly stolen. Now 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:06.240 I'm not accusing the restaurant of stealing it, but seems 0:05:06.279 --> 0:05:08.680 like a coincidence. I pull out my card and within 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.840 five minutes I get a text to my phone saying 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.160 that your card number has been used at a gas 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.760 station in Iowa or something like that. And I was like, what, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.520 So this time my card was not actually used. I 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.560 locked it from the app as soon as I realized 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.520 I left it there, ordered a new one, got it, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.840 and you know, it's just of course, I just updated 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.560 all the automatic payments on that card, and now I've 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:31.479 got to do it all again. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:33.599 So it's not very fun. Anyway. 0:05:33.800 --> 0:05:36.039 I tell you all of that because I do have 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.800 rules for using my card, but I'm now trying to 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.560 protect my card number even more than I have in 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:45.919 the past, and so I've started to use PayPal when possible, 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:49.480 and I've also started to use Apple pay when possible 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:52.680 online like on the web when you're buying stuff. And 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.320 then this privacy dot com kind of pulls up the 0:05:55.360 --> 0:06:00.240 rear because you can use your debit card anywhere with 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.120 this privacy dot com because it will. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.320 Generate a one time credit card number for you. 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:06.720 And what's really cool about that is it has a 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.560 secondary thing that you can do is as soon as 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:12.400 that card is used one time, it burns out, so 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.279 it can't be used again, which is even safer. So, 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.960 for instance, I ordered these I'm sure it's snake oil, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.120 but I ordered these like probiotic pills that I saw 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.800 someone advertising on Instagram and I said, oh, that's interesting, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.400 and so I ordered them. And I was like, oh, 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:31.440 of course, it's a monthly thing where they want you 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.320 to buy it every month, and I said, I'm not 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.920 ready for another subscription, so I use the one time 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:38.560 card they charged it. It will not work again. So 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.760 now when I forget inevitably to renew that or you know, 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.000 to cancel or whatever, I will, it will tell me like, hey, 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:47.960 your credit card didn't go through, and I'll go, oh, yeah, 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.920 that's why I use that Privacy dot Com card. So anyway, 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.520 I tell you all this because I think it's a 0:06:52.600 --> 0:06:53.240 useful tool. 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:55.080 It's totally free. 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.560 They make money based on the you like how many 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.719 times you use it. So I think with the free program, 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:03.560 you get like twelve one time cards a month, which 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:06.599 is more than enough for me. They've got an iOS app. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.400 You can use it on the web, you know, you 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.640 basically just go to the website, generate a card number, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.080 copy and paste it into the merchant and boom. So 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.840 it's a really handy little way to just kind of 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:20.640 put one more barrier between you and your information. And 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.560 what I like about it is that it enables me 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:25.600 to use my debit card on the web. So typically 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.400 I do not use my debit card on the web 0:07:27.440 --> 0:07:29.840 because obviously and I want my debit card number out there. 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.239 And PayPal has definitely helped me get around that because 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:37.040 now I'll use PayPal when that's available. But it's it's 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.080 just nice to have options. And the cool thing about 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:42.720 privacy dot com is that it is used anywhere a 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.840 credit card is used, like the system doesn't know anything different. 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:47.720 And by the way, you can make up different rules. 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:49.640 You can say, I only want this card to work 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:52.200 for up to twenty five dollars a month, I only 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:54.000 want this card to work for a total of one 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.040 thousand dollars. I only want this card to work one time. 0:07:58.000 --> 0:07:59.520 So there's a lot of different things you can do 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.520 to it. Pretty cool website. I think they're in the 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.760 process of rebranding to a different name perhaps, but it's 0:08:05.800 --> 0:08:06.800 just one more thing to have. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:08.720 I'll put a link in the show notes so you 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:09.679 can check it out. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:12.200 But I've been using it a lot because, like I said, 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.800 when you lose your credit card, you realize just how 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.240 annoying it is to have to change your number on 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:19.440 all those different things. 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:21.280 So, by the way, if. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.960 You are listening on Instagram, yes, there is no video. 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:27.360 There is no video on Instagram. I just didn't feel 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.200 like going on camera. You know, I go on camera 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.480 for eight hours every morning, and so sometimes I just 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.920 don't feel like being on camera when I'm doing a podcast, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:37.840 and sometimes it's a little distracting because I end up 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.560 looking at myself in the video and not what I'm. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:41.880 Supposed to be doing, which is audio. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.360 So that's why you're not seeing any video if you 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:48.160 are watching on Instagram. All right, let's get to the 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:54.040 first question of the show. Let's see Kathy says, hey, Rich, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.360 do you know a good way to sync my social 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.400 media and contacts? Ooh, Kathy, this is a great question 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.680 if you would have asked me five or ten years ago. 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.120 And the reason is that no these social Okay, so 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.280 I hear you. I absolutely loved the days when I 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:18.000 could sync my address book on the iPhone with Facebook 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.959 and or Instagram and or Twitter and or all. 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:23.760 These other services. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.920 There was always these third party apps that you could 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:28.880 use to do it. But the problem is, do you 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:33.040 remember that whole Cambridge Analytica thing. So even before that, 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:37.960 these social networks really started clamping down on how you 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:42.640 can export information in a bulk way, especially contact information. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:43.880 So it used to be really easy. 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:45.199 I used to use a service, I think it was 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.920 called sink me where you could go in and just say, hey, 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:52.280 I want to sink all my contact pictures. Ares there's 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.800 a million, i'man there's so many services. My address book 0:09:54.800 --> 0:10:00.160 is actually so disorganized because I tried so much any 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.000 of these sync services over the years. My favorite to 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:07.040 this day was something called Plaxo. And this was started 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.679 way back when, and what was so brilliant about Plaxo 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.040 is that you didn't have to update someone's information. You 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.120 would send them a link it's probably back then over email, 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:21.960 and it would say, hey, can is all your information 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.040 look correct? Can you just update whatever information is wrong? 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.920 And they can go in and change their phone number, 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:30.880 they could change their website, their address, whatever, and it 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.520 would automatically sync to your address book. And I thought 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:36.640 that was so brilliant. It crashed and burned. I mean, 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.080 someone bought them, but you know, for pennies on the dollar. 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.880 And the reality is, at this point I couldn't even 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.040 recommend a service like that because most people, due to 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:49.360 privacy concerns, would not feel comfortable filling in their information 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:51.800 on a web form like that. They would think it's 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:54.560 some sort of spam. So it's a great question. I 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:55.840 wish it was still available. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:59.080 It's not. Now. There is one app that I. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:03.280 Really like that that I think is really a good one, 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:08.160 and it is called contact Picks. And so what this 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:12.199 contact pix does. It's called contact Picks. It's for iOS, 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:17.440 and it's a great little simple app. And what it 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:19.760 does is it just goes through your address book and 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:24.640 it helps you add images to your address book and 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:25.079 that's it. 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:25.840 It's very simple. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.040 So the idea is that most people are on Google 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:34.240 in some fashion with their profile picture right, whether it's 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:36.920 from LinkedIn, whether it's from Facebook, whether it's you know, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.560 there's some scrubbed picture of you somewhere on Google, and 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.240 So what it does is it just easily helps you 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.079 search the person in your co or all the people 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.319 in your contacts for a picture, and it helps you 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.120 easily format that picture and put it into your contacts. 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:54.679 It's such a great app. Often I'll go through my 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.160 address book and just pick a bunch of random people 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.760 to add their photo to their contact list, but for 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.520 their contact card, I should say, but it's really a 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:05.880 great app. And I know there's a if you just 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.960 search contact picks iOS app. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:13.080 Let's see if it comes up. I don't know, I 0:12:13.120 --> 0:12:13.960 have to. I'm gonna have to. 0:12:13.960 --> 0:12:18.040 Put like, oh, yeah, the first the first result does 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:21.199 come up. But if you want to look at the app, 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.160 oh interesting, now they've got the wrong wrong link there, 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:25.200 So definitely don't do that. 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:27.600 Okay, I have to. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.920 I'll put the link in the in the show notes 0:12:29.960 --> 0:12:33.120 because that's definitely something that needs to be added there. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.120 All right, let's talk about a kind of a big 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.400 story of the week. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:38.480 Duck Duck Go. 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:45.120 You know duck duck Go as a privacy centric web page, 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.720 right or search engine. I should say, So people like 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.720 duck duck Go because you can search privately, it doesn't 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:57.600 track you and that's mostly true, except it just so 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.280 happens that a security re searcher named Zach Edwards discovered 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.440 a little something. He discovered that while duck duck go 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:11.400 does indeed block third party tracking cookies from the likes 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:16.559 of Google and Facebook and other companies, it somehow gives 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:21.600 Microsoft a pass. Why does it give Microsoft a pass? Well, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.800 it turns out duck duck go has a deal with Microsoft, 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:30.560 and so they let their trackers slip through and track you. 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:35.240 Now do they track you as big as some of 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.319 the other trackers have the potential to do. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.520 Maybe not, but we don't really know. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.480 And the fact that the fact that duck duck Go 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:46.559 didn't really disclose this in a simple, straightforward manner is 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:51.000 very concerning for a company that prides itself on privacy. 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:54.880 And so I'll give them a big not very good. 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:58.480 So what do we do? Where do we go from here? 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.280 Number one, duck says, And the CEO of duc dot 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:04.400 go is really defending this tactic. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:06.200 Obviously, duck dot go is. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.440 Getting a lot of money from Microsoft to do this 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.120 and to let their trackers slide and third party cookies. 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:15.120 If you didn't see my report on KTLA third party 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.480 cookies are basically the tracking cookies that follow you all 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.000 around the web. They're the reason why you search for 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.720 new bedding on overstock dot com, and it follows you 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:28.720 around to every other website in the world. Now, there 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.960 is a couple of ways to block those third party 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:37.560 tracking cookies. You can install one of these privacy extensions 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.560 on Chrome. Chrome actually has the ability to do it 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.120 built in. If you go to settings, which are the 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.400 three little dots in the upper right hand corner, and 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.120 then click settings and then you go to let's see 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.960 Privacy and Security, and then you go to cookies and 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.640 other site data, and then there is an option to 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.880 blurt block third party cookies, and so when you do that, 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:04.640 it will block third party cookies. What's a third partycookie? Well, again, 0:15:05.200 --> 0:15:09.400 it's all of these ad networks basically they tell these 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.960 I mean, it's a win win situation. So if you 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:16.880 run a website, let's say you run overstock dot com, Well, 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.400 you want to have the most third party cookies you 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:22.800 can on there because you're getting data fed to you 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:26.160 so that the ads on your website are more relevant 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.640 and you're making more money when someone clicks on them, 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.680 or they may even click to your own website. 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:34.200 So let's say I go to Let's just say I 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:35.040 go to two websites. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:39.240 Let's say let's say first I go to best Buy 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.640 dot com and I search for toaster ovens, right, and 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:44.520 I kind of look at toaster ovens and I spend 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.800 a little bit of time kind of narrowing it down 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:48.760 to two that I keep kind of looking at. Well, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.200 those little tracking cookies kind of monitor not only what 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.520 I'm looking at, but how long I spent on the page, 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.440 who I am, all the information that they can possibly 0:15:56.480 --> 0:16:00.120 gather about me. And now I leave best Buy and 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:05.880 I go to let's say, Bloomingdale's dot com, and all 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:09.280 of a sudden, on Bloomingdale's homepage, I see an ad 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.520 for the toaster I want, and it's a little bit 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:14.600 cheaper than it was at best Buy. Or let's say 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:16.440 I go to Target dot com and they have a 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.000 banner on the homepage and it's like, hey, here's this 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.480 toaster that you might be interested in, and it's five 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:24.560 bucks cheaper, and I go, Wow, that's pretty cool. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.000 And so now Target gets the sale. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:31.600 The little you know, marketing cookie got some money because 0:16:31.640 --> 0:16:35.040 they helped make a sale. And you know it all 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.040 kind of works out and then best Buy. 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.800 You say, well what about best Buy? They didn't you 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.920 know what, how do they get it? Well, they get 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:41.200 you know. 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.360 On the on the other end, they'll get some money 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:46.240 when someone else comes to their website and does something similar, 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:48.680 or there's just an AD that's served up on their 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:50.200 website that they make some money on. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:51.200 That's targeted to you. 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:53.960 So there's a lot of reasons why websites want to 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.400 put these things on there. It helps them track their customers, 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:58.920 helps them, you know, serve up better ads, helps them 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.320 get better lead. All this good stuff, which is good 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.080 for marketers, not so good for the average person. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:06.119 You know. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:08.159 Look, I block a lot of these things, so I 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.280 don't see a lot of this stuff, and you could too, 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.439 But I do block them on Chrome because why have 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.160 your data out there if you don't need to. Yeah, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.560 it makes things a little bit more complicated. Yes, you 0:17:17.720 --> 0:17:20.440 may be missing out on a couple of special offers 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.520 that websites may offer up to you, but now websites 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.280 are leaning on email and sort of direct messaging to 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:29.919 get those things to you. Or when you do go 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.280 to a website that does have these ads, still still 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.520 serve something up to you that maybe has a little 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:36.479 better deal or a promo code or something. 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:39.600 So, but again is stuff. A lot of this stuff 0:17:39.600 --> 0:17:42.560 just clutters the web. Okay, where was I? 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:46.040 So you can block these things if you'd like. Duck 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:50.200 Ducco is very quick to point out that the tracking 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:55.480 only happens on their iOS and android apps, their browsers 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:57.960 that they that they deliver to those platforms that are 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:02.520 privacy centric browsers. It does not this this behavior does 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.560 not happen on the website, and so they wanted to 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:10.040 make sure that was very clear. Now, personally, I think 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.520 that Duck Duck goes a little blemished because of this 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:16.040 whole thing. And I think that that's, you know, something 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.800 that you've taken into consideration. That there wasn't a big 0:18:18.840 --> 0:18:21.520 pop up that said, hey, when we're blocking stuff, we 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:25.359 are going to be blocking most except not Microsoft. And 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.360 maybe that does happen on the on the browser, I'm 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.439 not sure. I don't really use that browser. Now what 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:32.720 do I recommend? So a couple things. Number One, if 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:34.919 you want a mobile browser that does block a lot 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.040 of stuff, you've got an option called Brave which is 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:41.520 on desktop, and I think they have a mobile browser also, 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:46.639 Firefox Focus, and I like Firefox because it's Mozilla, which is, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.280 you know, an organization that's really trying to bring privacy 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.679 to the web, and so I think I kind of 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:56.879 trust them. And then the other thing you can do is, uh, 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.040 there's a website called startpage dot com, which I also 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:04.439 recommended recently, and they try to really block a lot 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.120 of this stuff as well. So a couple of options there. 0:19:07.280 --> 0:19:10.760 But you know, the reality is I still use Google, 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:14.240 I still use Chrome, and you know, look, I understand 0:19:14.280 --> 0:19:16.080 that a lot of this stuff is being tracked, and 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.399 probably more so than you can ever imagine. But at 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.760 the same time, I do like the functionality I get 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:23.840 out of it. And that's what it really comes down to, 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.159 is that do you like the functionality? Do you like 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:29.320 like I love Google web search results, and I'm not 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:32.280 ready to give those up for either start page or 0:19:32.359 --> 0:19:35.040 duc duck goes, even though I did look at start 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:37.680 Page's results and they did seem to be pretty good. 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.560 Duck Duck Go I haven't tested in a while, but 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:42.600 the last time I tested, I was not impressed. So 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:44.720 just take it with a grain of salt and just 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:47.840 something to keep in mind as you look for a 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:49.320 more privacy. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.080 Centric search engine. 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.520 All right, let's get to the next question of the podcast. 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:58.000 Scott says, do you have any information on how services 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.240 like Spectrum work compared to Verizon and whose network they use. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:04.800 Spectrum is cheaper than Verizon, but is it as good? 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:07.600 All right, So, Scott, I think I kind of talked 0:20:07.600 --> 0:20:09.199 about this in the last show, but I'll just go 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.320 over it again. But I'm not switching to Spectrum Mobile. 0:20:13.440 --> 0:20:15.200 Now. I know they're heavily advertising. 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:19.840 I know that they are cheaper than Verizon, but you 0:20:19.960 --> 0:20:22.400 have to realize switching to them comes with a lot 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:25.159