Love the fact that even when committing to the bit about being anti-privacy they still know the internet is functionally unusable without an adblocker
Also I'm about to say something ignorant as hell but: Isn't a Browser the same thing as a Search Engine?
Nope, Browser is the tool, the software to reach internet. Like a phone. Search Engine is more like the phone book of URL reference. And you use it with keywords
The browser is the software to use the internet and a search engine essentially scans the entire accessible web for the words you type in to it and shows you where they are.
Browsers are the app you click on: google chrome, firefox, Microsoft edge, safari
Search engines are a website you go to on that app. If you type something in the top bar of your browser that is not a link, browsers will automatically enter that into a search engine.: google search, Bing, duckduckgo, ecosia, startpage
Browser is an app on your computer
Search engines are apps on other people’s computers that you access via a website
OS: chromeOS
Phone: stock xiaomi 10
Browser: internet explorer (VM)
Search engine: baidu results served through ask jeeves
Location: Constantly updated via API to Facebook
Cookies: batch downloaded
Send optional data to Microsoft: printed and mailedYou print and mail your data? You could really cut out a step by getting their fax number.
Make sure to page them first so they know to go pick it up.
Every corporation on the internet:
No, it clearly says Anonymous
OS: Five different Linux distributions and a BSD
Phone: iPhone (hardened; trackers blocked w. NextDNS)
Browser: Mullvad Browser
Search engine: Self-hosted SearXNG
Location: Only for mapping software
Cookies: Notices blocked by uBO, cleared on restart
Send optional data to Microsoft: Who?
Bitches love a good BSD
Is that the guy that has nothing to hide?
Who's whining about rising subscription prices in times of lesser quality in movies and tv shows?
Who's whining about not being able to get a raise because "we can't afford to give everyone raises in this economy"?
Who's whining because insurances are so expensive and never pay up?
Who has given up both control over his own information and control over where to get his knowledge from?
Who can no longer own media, or cars, or appliances without paying a monthly subscription that "this time for sure not getting worse over time"?
Who has given up his freedom?
OS: EndeavourOS Phone: Pixel 7 Pro (using GrapheneOS) Browser: Firefox (Plus uBlock, Plus Pihole, plus Adguard) Search engine: startpage location: off (on for specific apps) cookies: auto declined send optional data to Microsoft: no even using Windows
OS: kubuntu Phone: pixel with grapheneis + pihole Browser: FF (+ublock) Search engine: searx (hosted by non profit) Kocation: off Cookies: avoid when possible Mail: Infomaniak Collab software: next cloud Etc.
OS: Archlinux (btw)
Phone: xiaomi (e/os/)
Browser: Firefox (librewolf when bored)
Search engine: 5 instances of searxng and DuckDuckGo sometimes
Location: My chair
Cookies: I still don't care about cookies
Send optional data to Microsoft: Who?
Why 5 instances of Searxng? Do you get very different results with each? I pretty much always use the same one..
Just for when one is down or is blocked by a search engine. Happens sometimes and I have 5 bookmarked
This entire privacy thing isn't such a problem in the EU luckily lol
nah they still spy on you using the American ways until EU realises and tells them to stop, but it doesn't happen instantly and there's always new bullshit to stop them from doing
Me: "So companies can't hoard my data?"
EU: "That's right"
Me: "Cool, and I'll encrypt my chat just to be safe."
EU: "Now wait a minute..."
When even lol
It's still a problem in the EU,
less then in the USA,
however still a rather big problem.At least in the US we know who's after us (everyone), so there's that.
lol
The average user?
OS: Win 10 (I know... but like... Reason and Live for music composition)
Phone: Pixel 4a, VPN. Would like to find an alternative, but 5' phones are rare nowadays.. Too clumsy/old to use larger phones.
Browser: Firefox + uBO + Ghostery
Search engine: Alternating between Google and DDG
Location: Only for mapping software
Cookies: Consent-O-Matic (greatest find this year in this regard, thanks to Lemmy btw)
Send optional data to NOPE
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