And the republicans are all that and worse
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That’s pretty cool, though their prices for cloud storage are a little higher than I was hoping for.
Have you heard of a certain Google antitrust case which would require them to let go of Chrome among other things?
Which isn’t to say that’s enough, but it is something. Certainly better than, say, I don’t know, repealing net neutrality.
The Proton compatibility layer is a valve thing. Proton Mail/VPN/Pass and so on are from the Proton company.
A bit of an unfortunate name.
10·8 months agoDidn’t you know? Portugal is part of Eastern Europe.
It’s the official bang for Startpage. You can’t configure custom bangs in DDG; Kagi can do that.
Oh, like so. When you said “same” I assumed you meant Google as well, and I found
!sto be an intuitive bang for that. Startpage makes more sense, I know they get their results through Google.I’ve found DDG/bing’s results to be quite lacking.
It seems our experiences have been different, then.
but with
!sIs that built-in, or do you have to configure it yourself? Configuring one is fine, but DDG has quite a few I semi-frequently use (!i, !g, !gi, !yt, !w, !gt), even Google itself feels like a downgrade when I want to search an image and I manually have to click the ‘images’ tab after performing my query.
It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though
I agree, which is why I’ve been happy to continue using DDG.
I keep hearing about Kagi, maybe I should try it sometime.
DDG has been quite serviceable to me, however. If I can’t find something I can just add a quick
!gto my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.
As if Google’s results haven’t been getting worse
2·9 months agoThat probably makes more sense
2·9 months agoWebsites automatically adapting to viewport size is pretty handy, not having to select whether you want the mobile site or not each and every time you load the page is generally considered a good thing.
You may also want the website to adapt to smaller or wider windows, unless you want every website to become one where you manually zoom in and pan around.
Similar things go for language and timezone.
There are various ways to spoof various settings about your browser, through add-ins or otherwise.
Yes and no. There are still plenty of things that get tracked regardless of JavaScript, and disabling JavaScript is it’s own mark they can track.
Do Not Track is one such request, but screen size, viewport size, language, timezone/region, whether you block ads or not, browser/engine version, and many more are all things that do get tracked without the need for JS.
All have legitimate reasons, but can also be abused by being tracked server-side.The cover your tracks page on eff.org has some pretty good explanations for most things.
Fun fact, the reason the TOR browser launches in windowed mode is so that this viewport size tracking is less of a marker.
it might serve as an identifier, i think
It does. It’s yet another data point used in fingerprinting, and not many people enable it. 'tis but a single setting, but combined with everything else they can track about your browser it is effective.
In case you want to run a test to see how fingerprinting affects your browser:
One Hand Operation + and the “pull screen down” action are very welcome, but ideally wouldn’t be needed.
Anyone know about any Sesame alternatives? That app seems largely abandoned. It still suffices, but it’s missing some stuff I’d like to see (like integration with a work profile).
I came across Pixel Search; which looks nice but doesn’t quite have the same ease of use Sesame does. It also hasn’t been updated in a year.
3·10 months agothis place simply isn’t big enough to have the niche communities
Yeah. Wanted to recommend Lemmy to a friend, but the few topics they were mainly interested in had little to no engagement.
3·10 months agoThe distribution seems odd, yeah. Most of the women ranked movies are from after 2000, whereas the men ones are pre-1990
Might as well vote for the one that kills more babies because it’s all the same! Right?
I’m not sure if I’m the one sounding stupid here, frankly.
The one glimmer of hope is that this election makes the Dems get their shit together.