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Jeremiah Jennings

Jeremiah Jennings

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First of all, ever since I signed up for POA, I get ten pop ups on my phone for "all inclusive flight schools". I realize I brought this on myself but It's kind of annoying.
Nevertheless, I would like to get a book selection in order to start expanding my knowledge. Any suggestions? I've found most of what Amazon has but I bet I don't need most of it. Looking for Private Pilot to start. Thanks
 
Not sure why you would get the pop ups as I don't have that concern on the computer or my phone ... but I use protection.

As for what to read there is a lot of free information and some of it is pretty good. You can start with this for a grand overview:

http://falcon.blu3wolf.com/Docs/See-How-It-Flies-Book.pdf

This is a pdf as when I went to the website I got a trojan warning. Probably OK as sometimes a banner script or something similar will toss up a warning but I went to the pdf to be safe.

Welcome to the club. Just a warning that this stuff is very addictive!
 
Daleandee said:
Not sure why you would get the pop ups as I don't have that concern on the computer or my phone ... but I use protection.

As for what to read there is a lot of free information and some of it is pretty good. You can start with this for a grand overview:

http://falcon.blu3wolf.com/Docs/See-How-It-Flies-Book.pdf

This is a pdf as when I went to the website I got a trojan warning. Probably OK as sometimes a banner script or something similar will toss up a warning but I went to the pdf to be safe.

Welcome to the club. Just a warning that this stuff is very addictive!
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Copy that, much appreciated
 
Jeremiah Jennings said:
First of all, ever since I signed up for POA, I get ten pop ups on my phone for "all inclusive flight schools". I realize I brought this on myself but It's kind of annoying.
Nevertheless, I would like to get a book selection in order to start expanding my knowledge. Any suggestions? I've found most of what Amazon has but I bet I don't need most of it. Looking for Private Pilot to start. Thanks
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I don't get pop ups like that. I think you need to check your settings. I'm not a real whiz at it but there's folk here who are. I'm sure they'll chime in and help you. Nice scooter. Didja get it for Christmas:)
 
You never get popups working on a command line. Just sayin' ;)

Sorry for your troubles. What kind of phone?
 
Half Fast said:
Must not be vax’d.


OP, start with the Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge, the Airplane Flying Handbook, and the FAR/AIM.
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All free on the FAA website.
 
I stared reading the See How It Flys book.....sorry but I gotta have paper....anyone know where I can buy it paperback? Or kindle at least? Thanks again for the support and the warning about cost and such. One of my earliest memories is trying to look over the dash of the Dehaviland Beaver on floats while Maintaining control of the yoke while the pilot (family friend) was fast asleep! I think it's in my blood!
 
Jeremiah Jennings said:
I stared reading the See How It Flys book.....sorry but I gotta have paper....anyone know where I can buy it paperback? Or kindle at least? Thanks again for the support and the warning about cost and such. One of my earliest memories is trying to look over the dash of the Dehaviland Beaver on floats while Maintaining control of the yoke while the pilot (family friend) was fast asleep! I think it's in my blood!
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Cool friend to pretend to be asleep to give a kid a thrill. Or, uh……..
 
Maybe someone else jump in? Beyond how to spell it, I don't know the first thing about Android.
 
luvflyin said:
Why?
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Google tracks you everywhere and builds a profile of you, stores all your searches and monetizes your data through real time bidding.

DuckDuckGo and Startpage don’t log your searches or build an individual profile. It’s not perfect privacy, you still get tracked by Google when you click on a link especially if you’re logged in to your account. “Private” search engines won’t help you if the FBI or NSA is after you, but they do cut down on the amount of creepy personalized ads.
 
Rushie said:
Google tracks you everywhere and builds a profile of you, stores all your searches and monetizes your data through real time bidding.

DuckDuckGo and Startpage don’t log your searches or build an individual profile. It’s not perfect privacy, you still get tracked by Google when you click on a link especially if you’re logged in to your account. “Private” search engines won’t help you if the FBI or NSA is after you, but they do cut down on the amount of creepy personalized ads.
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Thx. What about the search results you get? Do those others return as many, or as pertinent 'hits' as google?
 
luvflyin said:
Thx. What about the search results you get? Do those others return as many, or as pertinent 'hits' as google?
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I’ve never felt I was getting inferior search results but some people claim they do. I think the way it works is Startpage for example actually takes your search request and uses Google, Bing, and Yahoo to get the results but the search comes from their servers, as far as those engines can see, then Startpage presents it to you. So Google never sees what IP address originally made the request. Then Startpage deletes the whole event within 24 hours, or something.

They may filter the results before they present it to you, like eliminating sites they’ve identified as worthless plagiarizing of legitimate sites, but I don’t think they censor anything above what their source engines do. I have never said, “Gee I’m not finding what I’m looking for, I’d better go directly to Google.”

Startpage servers are located in the Netherlands so law enforcement can’t get a prospective warrant and force them to keep your data to turn over to them (without going through Dutch courts) HOWEVER Netherlands is in the 9 Eyes, which means they have an alliance with our intel community, which means Startpage can theoretically be forced to rat you out, if somebody wants to claim you’re an international terrorist or child pron trafficker.

I think DuckDuckGo is located within the U.S. so even less protection. These shouldn’t be considered anonymous security when it really matters, just a way to cut down on the amount of data being compiled and stored on you for marketing purposes.
 
Rushie said:
I’ve never felt I was getting inferior search results but some people claim they do. I think the way it works is Startpage for example actually takes your search request and uses Google, Bing, and Yahoo to get the results but the search comes from their servers, as far as those engines can see, then Startpage presents it to you. So Google never sees what IP address originally made the request. Then Startpage deletes the whole event within 24 hours, or something.

They may filter the results before they present it to you, like eliminating sites they’ve identified as worthless plagiarizing of legitimate sites, but I don’t think they censor anything above what their source engines do. I have never said, “Gee I’m not finding what I’m looking for, I’d better go directly to Google.”

Startpage servers are located in the Netherlands so law enforcement can’t get a prospective warrant and force them to keep your data to turn over to them (without going through Dutch courts) HOWEVER Netherlands is in the 9 Eyes, which means they have an alliance with our intel community, which means Startpage can theoretically be forced to rat you out, if somebody wants to claim you’re an international terrorist or child pron trafficker.

I think DuckDuckGo is located within the U.S. so even less protection. These shouldn’t be considered anonymous security when it really matters, just a way to cut down on the amount of data being compiled and stored on you for marketing purposes.
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Thanks for the info. For now all that privacy stuff isn't really a concern but who knows, maybe I'll turn to a life of crime someday. Even the ads thing, other than being a little annoying every now and then ain't that big a deal.
 
Popups are not an intrinsic feature of Android or Chrome. If you are getting popups, it is either coming from an intrusive app or web site, or malware. Apps or web sites that serve me popups get dropped like a hot rock. Some flavors of Android (I'm looking at you, Samsung) come with a lot of their own bloatware included in their Android "skins." Google (Pixel) and Motorola seem to have minimally skinned Android implementations.
 
Ways to stop pop-ups:
Use an ad-blocking browser on your phone. Pop-ups aren't limited to one kind of phone or another.

Ways to stop Google from personalizing your ads:
Go to settings in your account and tell it not to collect ad personalization data. I'm sure it still collects it, but it'd stop the personalized ads. If you have any type of Google account linked to say, your instagram profile or whatever other social media stuff, you'll have to manually tell it not to collect that data.
 
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