This is a new record for me. 589 threats detected on an operating system that I haven't been using for almost five days! A machine that has two other reputable security programs on it, both up to date and functioning normally. These 589 were all reported as being tracking cookies. So someone's very interested in what I'm doing on this computer. And I think I know who. But 589 cookies in just a little less than five full days? That's absolutely insane! Nobody needs that many cookies placed on anything for any reason whatever. This is the kind of spying that's going to turn people right off the Internet when they realize it is actually happening.
Sadly, the vast majority of today's thumb-typers are not aware of it - they're too busy Facebooking or Tweeting or babbling mindlessly to one another, totally oblivious to the fact that "Big Brother" is tracking their every move on these cute little toys, figuring out how to make bigger and better profits from all that, mostly without our knowledge, and certainly without our approval. People like those "armed to the teeth" gun-lovers among our American cousins love to rant endlessly about their precious "Freedoms" yet they don't even realize that freedom today is largely a myth. It's a noisy distraction while somebody we've never met picks through our filing systems for fun and profit, while pretending to be as honest as the day is long.
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