nukeop

Chinese have different sensibilities than westerners. It's completely normal and accepted for them. They have a word for self-important westerners who are obsessed with politically correct speech and behavior - baizuo. It's a different world there.

There's a section where you can download all the data Google has on you.

But Facebook also tracks people who do not have accounts, and people who pay for services. No way out.

I subscribe to a couple of newsletters that send the most popular repositories in several languages to my email every week. There's been a trend of increasing Chinese activity for months now. The problem with Chinese programmers is that they very rarely bother to use English, as the rest of the world, rendering their technically "open source" code largely useless for most of us. There's clearly a niche for a Chinese language counterpart of Github, and I suspect it's going to be filled soon.

The American society has progressed so far it managed to bring back indentured servitude, what an achievement.

Until you fall victim to clickjacking.