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So if you use a VPN and incognito mode without logging into any online account, Google, Facebook, et al can still track you accurately?

Curious any other tools besides vpn and private mode you would recommend?

Any more links to read about these behaviorial, software and and type style tracking methods?

Care to name products/companies? It would be fun to play around with a VPN and see what variations in pricing would really happen.

Love these type of tools especially when using with github pages.

Anyone have any other tool recommendations that work well with github pages and other static sites?

To be fair, once you hit 260 characters, it starts counting down, showing you that you have 20 characters left.

I like the circle. It puts less emphasis on number of characters you are using, so perhaps people won't be as motivated to use up all 280.

Are there any other insurers that don't do/want many of these same things?

Some thoughts on item #3:

Offering the ability to follow hashtags in their current form would simply lead to more hashtag spam.

However I agree with your basic premise that following topics and geographical Tweets would be very useful. One of the main reasons I built GroupTweet. Allow people to form and manage "group" topical or location based accounts with any number of contributors while giving some admin controls like limiting approval to all or only select participants, moderation, etc.

Would love any feedback and suggestions on how we could improve to make your suggestions more of a reality.

Honest question - why not just unfollow those people that incessantly tweet worthless information?

I'm not saying its easy to find quality Twitter users to follow - but its certainly easy to unfollow bad users.

Twitter could certainly improve their algorithms that recommend people to follow, surface good content, etc.

That's one of the reasons I built GroupTweet. To facilitate private group communication on Twitter with any number of participants that can persist through permanent Twitter accounts (instead of temporary Group DMs that are limited to 20 people).

Would love any feedback or suggestions on how it could be improved.

Happy to offer free use to anyone on this thread looking to test out the service.

Hmm. Driving from provider to provider when trying to "shop around" is really not that feasible for most people.

But I suppose it could work better. I'm skeptical though. Finding the appropriate "accounting" folks in person would be a nightmare. A lot of the hospitals and providers I've dealt with use "third party" billing so your in person strategy with these types of parties would basically be impossible.

This is not common. Not sure why you feel so compelled to disagree with all the other posters regarding their headaches with healthcare billing/cost experiences throughout this thred. Odd.

I contacted multiple hospitals for cost estimates on a simple procedure (hours of phone calls) and only one would actually give me an "estimate." They went out of their way to explain that this was only an estimate and it could easily end up costing more than this due to a number of factors.

I really doubt any hospital will ever give you a committed price for any procedure. I would love to be proven wrong from any other posters :).

I'm genuinely curious where and for what types of procedures you have had so much success in getting pricing/cost info up front for.

As most of the people in this thread have experienced its a maddening process. I've tried several times for routine procedures and its a huge headache that takes lots of time and lots of waiting on hold.

Total shot in the dark, but perhaps Chicago mayor Rahm Emmanuel due to his ties to the White House (former Obama chief of staff). What other mayors would even know this type of opportunity existed?!

No problems with iMessage screwing you over when switching from Apple to Android? If you ever participate in any group mms messages its borderline impossible to escape apples ecosystem without serious drawbacks.

If you switch to android and want to still receive group mms from friends, every member of the group mms that has an iPhone has to delete the entire thread and start a new thread. Not only that, they each need to add you or another non ios member as the first person in their new mms.

Pretty ridiculous and irresponsible if you ask me.