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So how does this claim of 'prosperity' reconcile with the gas price chart of chaos? (check "show crude" and select "10 year"). While recovery of shale is not illusory and domestic production is a good thing, these month-to-month retail gas prices -- as a general economic indicator -- should be taken with salt. Principal factors include, 1. What is the current political situation in Saudi Arabia? 2. Insert frivolous blah-blah indicator to fill airtime. And principally, 3. What do the companies think the market will bear? Enjoy your artificial "Fourth of July road trip gas price low" folks, it's the only remaining American tradition they're going to observe until the very last moment, when they can tighten the screws all the way.
I use Firefox when browsing with a combination of:
- uBlock Origin (with a bunch of extra filters turned on)
- Self-Destructing Cookies
- HTTPS Everywhere
The Chrome equivalent is:
- uBlock Origin
- Tab Cookies
- HTTPS Everywhere
It's been a while since I've looked around to see if there's anything better, but that'll keep you under the radar as far as advertisers are concerned, and the HTTPS helps put a dent into bulk surveillance.
I've also been trying to point more people towards Wire as an end-to-end encrypted and open source Skype alternative (made by the initial creators!). It's free, on every desktop and phone, and with the exception of I believe group video and telephone calls, has feature parity with Skype (it does have group audio).
It's not quite as polished as WhatsApp, but it's quite good at this point, and it's already passed an independent security audit.
No great alternatives for email, phones are a bit of a lost cause, nobody's even talking about facial/license plate recognition, and browsers still leak WAY too much metadata.
Still, things are moving in the right direction as far as the tech is concerned. Silicon Valley seems to be coming together in favor of privacy, and if good security gets as easy as HTTPS, this mass surveillance stuff won't be nearly as much of an issue.
We just need to make sure that Congress doesn't pass any stupid anti-encryption laws in the mean time, and from everything I've read, proposals of that nature have been getting shot down fast and hard.