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    OS: neurolink

    Phone: smasung galaxy s3

    Browser: Firefox 78.3

    Search engine: kagi trials

    Location: on the desktop

    Cookies: yummy

    Send optional data to Microsoft:

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    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?

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      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

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      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.

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      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

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      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 mailed

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    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?

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    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?

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    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

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      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.

  • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    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?

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      Why 5 instances of Searxng? Do you get very different results with each? I pretty much always use the same one…

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    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