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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.

Our pages serve & render faster as they dont have the ballast most web sites burden you with.

• NO Adverts (despite offers).
• NO Cookies (used for spying.
• NO Tracking .
• NO Links with or fees from any Affiliate Advertising Programs such as Amazon Services LLC Associates Program or Google etc
• NO Harvesting (referral meta data etc).
• NO AI (Artificial Intelligence).
• NO swamps of hidden external links slowing page display (( eg NO Google Analytics for ads).
• NO click bait farms.
• NO Animation (advertisers like distracting exrement).
• NOFlash (proprietary, viral risk).
• NO bloated inefficient HTML (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 regular changes to tickle search engines.
• NO window size forcing (wasting border pixels, annoying variant device owners).
• NO dark fonts on darker backgrounds.
• NO text obscured by background graphics .
• NO font size & style forcing (just bold & italic).
• No text colour forcing (Almost, 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 embarass 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 (Microsoft etc).
• NO web forums (needing extra maintenance work, paid by ads & burdened by trolls & egotistic censors, politicians & laws).
• NO commissions & kickbacks from firms.
• NO paid links.

• NO Censors as mail lists Not open to unsubscribed 3rd parties, needing moderators aka censors to protect against abuse & illegalities particulalrly stemming from anonymous accounts.
• NO mail lists sold (despite requests).
• NO intent to build site then later sell users (egex toytowngermany_dot_com).
• NO Fees charged for event attenders & organisers, list members & owners etc, (unlike eg internations, meetup etc). Free Robot).