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Berklix Domains Avoid Glitz

& do not spy on you, with slow hidden commercial ballast.

This http://www.berklix.org/berklix/no_glitz.html

See Also: standard FAQ for email & Mail Lists

Services on Berklix.org are Truly FREE & Non Commercial.

• NO Adverts, No Paid Links, NO Paid Article Placement NO commissions, NO kickbacks from firms On our web pages or Mail Lists (despite periodic offers).
• NO Cookies (used for spying.
• NO Tracking .
• NO Links with or fees from Affiliate Advertising Programs such as Amazon Services LLC Associates Program or Google etc
• NO Harvesting (referral meta data etc).
• NO selling & / or sharing of data or meta data with companies; unlike what commercial [anti-]social media companies do>.
• NO AI (Artificial Intelligence) on site., No links to external pages generated by AI, unless where realised & unavoidable they are clearly warned. However external page contents, (& as external domains can expire & get bought for unreaised radically different content).
• NO Swamps Of Hidden External Links slowing page display (( eg NO Google Analytics for ads).
• NO Animation (advertisers like distracting exrement).
• NO Flash (proprietary, viral risk).
• NO Bloated Generated HTML (inefficient, generated by packages), instead Berklix HTML is Hand Written (using WYSIWYG simple Unix script).
• NO Java, JavaScript, or PHP (except what 3rd party PD Source code such as Openwebmail Mailman etc might or not install).
• NO Scripts, slowing & breaking .
• NO Placement render failures.
• NO Style Sheets.
• NO Page Counter delays (slowing pages).
• NO Pointless Regular Changes to tickle search engines.
• NO Window Size Forcing (wasting border pixels, annoying variant device owners).
• NO Dark Backgrounds with dark fonts.
• NO Forcing Of Global Font: Sizes. Colours, Styles (just bold & italic)
• NO Text Obscured By Background Graphics .
• No Text Colour Forcing (Except ~3 pages & red warnings).
• NO text in graphics you can't mouse copy (except logos).
• NO PDFs you can't mouse copy text from within (if we wrote them, but imports may vary).
• NO Obscured URLs you can't quote (some sites randomise dynamically to prevent users quoting exact web refs, & to break search engines).
• NO Audio Bursting Out unexpected, that might disturb other people or embarrass you.
• NO Particular Browser preferred (text browsers OK).
• NO Forcing Of Human Language from IP number .
• NO High Speed Line & PC needed. NO Pages designed by young fools impressing clueless managers with idiot demos reliant on fast servers, fast unloaded networks, fast browsers, fast hardware, big screens & non portable software dependencies.
• NO Servers With Viral Proprietary Software. (We use FreeBSD).
• NO Proprietary Formats (No Microsoft etc).
• NO Web Forums (needing extra maintenance work, paid by adverts & burdened by trolls & egotistic censors, politicians interference laws, & predator law firms).
• NO Page Capture, preventing your clicking return to old referral page prior to our page.
• NO Charge For all Mail Lists & Social Events organised in or from eg Aachen & Munich
• No Selling of mail list membership names (despite periodic buyer inquiries)
• NO Fees To Use FTP: archives & receive FreeBSD Source CTM Deltas etc
• NO Fees To Join, Stay On, Or Leave Tables Pages such as Global BSD Consultants

• NO Censors as Mail Lists Not Open To Posting By 3rd Party Non Members, so no need of potentially egotistic moderators aka censors to protect against abuse & illegalities stemming from anonymous accounts.
• NO Mail Lists Sold OR Rented (despite requests).
• NO Intent To Build Site Then Later Sell Users (eg ex toytown).
• NO Fees Charged For Event Attenders & Organisers, Mail List members & owners etc, (unlike eg internations, meetup etc). Free mail lists .