Duckduckgo...better than Google, but...

[EHocking]

Roofs are pretty weak.

Lifting a metal sheet, or moving a few tiles, are both trivial.

I've hear of steel mesh being installed in the ceiling space because of that issue.

(A retirement village that was enduring a spate of 'roof entry' crime.)

Even worse in some terrace housing in the UK that share a roof space.

 

[Darat]

Even worse in some terrace housing in the UK that share a roof space.

I recall about 50 years ago someone had broken into a house up the street but were disturbed and the police called. The burglar went into the attic of the house he was in which then had the police running up and down the terrace trying to guess which house the burglar would try and get out of because there was access to all the attics in the terrace. Afterwards I went up and went exploring.

 

[Thermal]

Years back, I used to bet a security system installer that I could beat any of his systems on our new homes, with no damage at all to the property (as in, no broken windows or obvious B&E signs). He put his business card with a handwritten message on it in the middle of the master bed floor, and I had to present it the next day to win without tripping the system. I only had the advantage of knowing that as a matter of design, he didn't put motion detectors or pressure pads in bedroom areas where people might get up at night to use a bathroom. One was particularly tough, so I went up on the second story roof in the morning, pulled a few shingles, and with a cordless saw, cut myself an access and dropped into the attic, went over to the access panel and dropped right into the unmonitored bedroom areas hallway. Then back out and patched the hole. We argued about leaving evidence because I did leave a little bit of mess on the brand new carpet behind me, but I argued that with people living in the home, it would not have been distinguishable from household debris.

 

[Thermal]

You don't search for ... I don't know, lawnmowers, and then get ads for lawnmowers on random third sites?

Correction to my earlier reply: I searched for a particular style of siding on my Chromebook laptop instead of my more commonly used android phone. You were right, ads all over for that oddball siding on the edges of unrelated pages.

 

[Wudang]

Yeah a lot of websites have in their cookie T&Cs stuff about collating data from various sources which I presume drives this.

 

[Thermal]

I invariably click on "reject all cookies" or anything else that sounds like "◊◊◊◊ off", but Chrome seems to feel the same way about my preferences.

 

[catsmate]

For all the info they are supposedly collecting on me, it doesn't seem to be doing them much good. I don't get spammed or see ads, and my searches are generally by proxy, soooo... what exactly are they doing with this vast trove of my data?

Although that story about an AI that threatened to blackmail its programmer was a little unnerving.

I have that with Google. Who doesn't filter ads?

 

[bigred]

I invariably click on "reject all cookies" or anything else that sounds like "◊◊◊◊ off", but Chrome seems to feel the same way about my preferences.

Yeah...of course they can always play the "mandatory cookies" and that little box is ghosted out (or similar).

I never expect to have total privacy, but I think it's worth it to try to minimize what I can. Also if I am required to create an account and/or provide PII for something, like a purchase or to join a site, and esp if they ask for something they have no need of like my DOB, I simply lie.