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swhx7
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Elbonia		reply to gaforces
Re: Violation of Privacy

Encryption hides the content, not the IP address or destinations. The addresses are all they need for data-mining.
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gaforces
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 Cookies are blocked, flash is blocked, most the ad/marketing sites are blocked. How are they going to get useful data to target ads to me? Just by the sites I visit? That wont be useful to target ads to me, specially when I wont even see them.
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