Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jeff Liebermann Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: kids these days Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 19:01:01 -0700 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <7m2cfjd8o4fvi2p8vsghp6ehhvbp26fktb@4ax.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net +NurkP03bbQPSqnROJ6BqgWx3E1vS2kqL+AQOG1aVFalGh34SO Cancel-Lock: sha1:M+zCssUTQ/m7Hl5N7zQzA7UCgM4= sha256:+7NktC8sBJCrb4UfTJKCZ+AJGgRHUjoP0SfIfk+kK7s= User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Bytes: 2714 On Thu, 26 Sep 2024 17:20:53 -0700, john larkin wrote: >On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:08:10 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn > wrote: > >>john larkin wrote: >> >>Just FYI -- everything after the ...818.html, starting with the question >>mark, is the tracking information that is not needed of useful. The URL is: >> >>https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bosses-firing-gen-z-grads-111719818.html >> >>and it fits in one line. >OK. Amazon links are like that... you can chop them off short. I suggest "ClearURL" plugin for trimming off the tracking data from a URL: For Thunderbird: For Chrome: For Edge: It's not the best, the fanciest or the most reliable, but it's been working well enough for about two years. The only problem is that some web piles require the presence of the appended tracking data for their web pages to function properly. Three mouse clicks to turn it off and three more to turn it back on later. >And Google is evil. Maybe. Large and profitable companies tend to be labeled as evil. Since Google search makes the most money for Google, I would suspect that they are more than willing to compromise ethical behavior in exchange for increased profits: "Google Revenue Breakdown - How Does Google Make Money?" $175 billion in revenue for Google search out of a total of $307 billion revenue for the company. -- Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com PO Box 272 http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Ben Lomond CA 95005-0272 Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558