okay, and who are they selling my transaction history to?

easy, just get a debloating AI agent, what could go wrong

can’t wait for the Creasegate

It might be how public transit systems world wide are publishing to Google!

it is how public transit systems worldwide are publishing to Google. other services get to use those too, though, like Transportr

I dunno, could be just me, but you sound a bit upset

Fool me once, shame on you and fool me twice, shame on me; fool me hundred times and what the fuck is wrong with me

they should figure out some way to hook up with an e-reader manufacturer, sell their games in those stores

just sell it as an ebook, with choices being tappable links to specific pages. brand agnostic, and distributable over the countless ebook stores that already exist. I’d be surprised if there weren’t any CYOA books modernised that way already.

Waterfox Private Search is a meta-search engine

isn’t a “metasearch engine” something that aggregates results from multiple search engines, like what SearXNG does? as far as I can tell, this one is a proxy that is going to let you choose between Google, Bing, Brave and Mojeek, and currently only the first one is available. it’s more akin to Startpage or Mullvad Leta, then.

unless, say, OpenAI, or Perplexity, or Microsoft buy it, and then cut Mozilla funding.

Mullvad (Sweden)

edit: it doesn’t support port forwarding, though.

the discussion is about search engines, not browsers.

These numbers underline the current trend to choose European services instead of American ones, which followed the trend to deGoogle.

[the chart shows stats for American Google, American Bing, Russian Yandex, American Yahoo!, American DuckDuckGo, and Other]

what an irrelevant thing to say.

it objectively

nope, it doesn’t have a way of telling what’s objective and what isn’t.

Which is valuable.

nope

oh no, not missing out on the technology that hallucinates false information and makes fake people with six fingers, for a meagre cost of half an Amazon jungle per prompt! the horror!

“AI” doesn’t have a mind of its own to formulate am “objective” opinion, it just regurgitates whatever it’s being fed, and what it’s being fed is our biases.

if you use an AI-generated header for your article, then I’m going assume the text has been AI-generated, too. and I’m not going to bother reading something that no one could be bothered to write.

yes and yes. you don’t the VPN app to use their DNS servers.

there’s CalyxOS and /e/ available on Fairphones, so at least there’s that

I’ve had that happen with Credit Agricole’s app in the past. it would close immediately and load a website that suggested using Google’s Gboard or Microsoft’s Swiftkey :|