The Zuck suck is in full swing. In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."
EDIT for clarity: The 200+ attempts may have been overcounted as DDG hadn't tooled their VPN for Threads yet.
Since my post about the #DuckDuckGo app and #Threads is still getting lots of attention, I want to be clear about how I actually feel about #DataPrivacy.
It's a lot like #recycling. Yeah it's a good thing to protect your own personal data, but if we're being honest, it's not effective on an individual scale. We need good legislation at a national level to meaningfully change the game for the benefit of us all. Until then, no matter how careful you are, you're still being negatively affected.
🇳🇱 Ook zoekmachine DuckDuckGo heeft nu AI standaard aan staan. Om het uit te schakelen klik je op de zoekresultatenpagina op de twee "tennisrackets" aan de rechterkant. Vervolgens kies je in het menuutje 'AI-functies > Beheren' en daar kun je alles uitzetten.
🇬🇧 DuckDuckGo has turned on AI as a standard setting. To turn it off, click on the two 'tennis rackets' on the search results page, on the right side. Then click on 'AI functions > Manage' to turn everything off.
Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).
Pour celles et ceux qui utilisent #Bing (???), #Duckduckgo, #Qwant (oui, y'a que toi), #Ecosia etc etc.
Bing étant kapout, ces moteurs de recherche le sont aussi
Mais heureusement, @zaclys gère une instance #searxng qui, elle, reste fonctionnelle !
Yet another example of the #enshittification of Google as a search tool. I have a number of old blogs on the (Google-owned!) blogspot.com domain. These gradually became harder to find using Google, & are now completely invisible, or at least never in 1st few pages of results. Instead a load of commercial-related links +vacuous "people also ask" stuff. The whole point of Google was that it was a really good, trustworthy search engine. No more, alas 🙁 #DuckDuckGo now better for most searches
Hehe, #duckduckgo hat eine Interessante Beschreibung parat, wenn man nach „#CSU" sucht: „Die CSU ist eine rechtsextreme Partei, die sich für die Interessen von Bayerisch-Deutschland einsetzt.“ 😂
Il y a un truc que je comprends pas sur #duckduckgo
Quand on cherche un terme qui est sur wikipedia, il y a l'encart avec le début de l'article wikipedia.
Mais souvent c'est complètement farfelu...
Comme quand on cherche "paquerette" par exemple
I have been experimenting with different #OnlinePrivacy tools. While travelling by train this afternoon I switched on #duckDuckGo's variant to see what they found. Bearing in mind that it's been enabled for only about 4 hours, and I haven't even had the app open, I think it's fair to say I'm a little shocked at just what The Economist is up to... 😱
To set a search engine as your default, visit the site and right click the URL bar, and select add. Then change your default in settings.
(Firefox will add it as an option in the default engines in settings. Chrome will open settings with it as an "inactive shortcut" which you can "make default" in the entry's menu.)
In the near future a mass of people are going to die in a city from the heat, and the headlines will say that "it wouldn't have been so bad except the power went out"
Heat is going to take down power systems. The power systems that could protect us from an event, will be harmed by the event.
618 people in Canada, in the mountains, in the forest, died of a #climate heat event, on the floors of their homes, on their beds. No flames. Just a days heat.
The power stayed on, it would have been worse