Wife not fren, fren?

Ya so users like say @cobysev@lemmy.world and surely MANY others who don’t get nagged…

Wondered “what if some of us are browser fingerprinted so good they/their advertisers know we’re us, not bots, and pretend to let us stay anonymous” :(

Ay any tips?

Heh though that’s all legit right?

Aww how lovely Santa!

Any of you finish reading the paper?

Nice. Are you the only one on your instance? I seem to recall reading there’s a privacy consideration there. Like, maybe the ideal is knowing the maintainer and having some number of people all using it.

Great recommendations, and you got a Whoogle in there as well!

Looking into some of those instance maintainers.

Thank you!

48 engines available on a SearXNG instance I just checked:

Amazing project!

Getting good at queries, I’m down for that, thanks 🙂

Oh Bing

Search is hard

Good call though, I’ve done comparisons and it’s very Bingy though not 1:1 - search operators behave differently IIRC (quotation marks)

Oh so you want me to spend an extra fraction of a second to avoid an absolute privacy nightmare that could follow me around for the rest of my life?! (including potential price discrimination stealing e.g. a better retirement from me)

😉 thanks for testing!

Good question, something I wondered about after I posted.

Nope - OK, you know what helps?

Searching via the DDG site and then tapping images. Apparently I typed “reavers gif !ddgi” to save the tap and it does a hidden spelling correction to “reverse”?!

One mystery solved!

Edit: annotation in a dark font due to iOS 18 Markup bug, sorry it’s hard to see there in the upper right

And it’s different now! Reminded of how DDG rearranges search results when opening a result link, then hitting back, but much more extreme.

sprawling profile

Using a fresh [cookie-isolated] private tab for every search and going through iCloud Private Relay… I still have no doubt they still manage it. Sigh. Those “am I unique?” browser fingerprinting tests still show I’m unique, perhaps due to having an extension or two installed on Safari? Creepy.

OK, I feel better now. On searxng.site, I disabled all engines except for Google and I’m getting results similar to in my OP.

You’re right :) Dumb little joke about the show I shoehorned in.

For context, DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. I do at least a dozen searches every day. Approximately 90% of the time, I use a bang (!g) to punch out to Google and receive results I perceive to be of higher quality 99% of the time. I am absolutely elated when I hit the back button because DDG had a better result in the top 3.

It decided not to do a hidden autocorrect to reverse this time:

(Same everything (new private tab), just zoomed out.)

Hmm!

“Dang I could really use a hit right now”

“Well at least they can’t detect these tobacco patches“

That’s wild. Remember where you read that?

Ahaha good then my lazybones aren’t doing too bad!

Oh nice

Bitwarden FTW! (If they get hacked it’ll only take, oh, an entire day to change all my passwords 😉 you’re probably a KeePass person?)

Thanks, Major. How hard is it for fraudsters to unfreeze credit?

I made a step by step guide to disable OnStar on my 2022 Bolt. Easy to do, not permanent, and doesn’t disable the cellphone, Bluetooth, GPS, compass, or hands free microphone.

-source via a private proxy to that other site

Absolute nightmare to get that kind of stuff cleared from your reports. Were you successful?

That sort of thing’s not my bag, baby!

Still not enough to share with the whole class

(Not necessarily)

Bravo, Inti De Ceukelaire.

Registering a domain and publishing contact details connected to it seems to be a lifetime affair. For the lifetime of the internet, that is.

Wow, guess you’re right! Thanks for the insight :)

You’re right about that in many cases.

That post? It two sentences.

Second sentence is a joke that couldn’t be taken seriously. As if it were a knock knock joke or something. …right?!

Why would anybody test that first in QA anyway?

“How many of you own a power drill?” Rachel Botsman, the author of the book The Rise Of Collaborative Consumption, asked the audience at TedxSydney in 2010. Predictably, nearly everyone raised his or her hand. “That power drill will be used around 12 to 15 minutes in its entire lifetime,” Botsman continued with mock exasperation. “It’s kind of ridiculous, isn’t it? Because what you need is the hole, not the drill.”

TIL

Sometimes new underlings spawn but good point

I’d even recommend going one step further and deleting their account, but I didn’t read the post

:p i keed

Fixed for me recently

Assume they’d let ask you to have staff let you in every time, same as someone whose battery died. Pretty soon they’d recognize you and quickly buzz/wave you along, I figure.

Isn’t it disappointing :(

Wow nice. Any opinions on how these fingerprinting evaluators compare?

CreepJS:
https://abrahamjuliot.github.io/creepjs

EFF’s Cover Your Tracks:
https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

Am I Unique?:
https://amiunique.org

Sad a pretty stock iPhone that’s blocking via some filterlists and using iCloud Private Relay (a “VPN”) is so detectable! Should be so many browsers appearing similar but there’s always this & that that mean I’m unique.

You wouldn’t enshittify an entire operating system

In general, shudder at the thought of supporting the anti-broker industry. Data brokers can play both sides. Guest the only solution is legislation?

Got an amazing one thanks to a fellow alumni who proactively reached out.

Well played on this one, Microsoft… got me locked in, for now.

Can’t wait for the day login to LI is required to purchase something. A price discriminator’s wet dream.

why is it installed by default on all phones?

Absolutely batshit.

Should the bank should have keys to a mortgaged house? When you don’t own the house outright yet? I’m gonna go with no.

Hmm, do they only not have keys because you can’t drive a house away?

So obviously poverty fuggin sux and we need universal basic income etc.

In today’s BS world:

If we ban car repossession, what happens to car prices and access to transportation?

Likewise - if digital repossession of phones is prohibited, will there at least be a couple impoverished people who have to use dumb phones even though they could’ve afforded a reposessable smartphone?

Maybe a few people have to go without those cheaper phones because allowing lenders to killswitch phones causes greater harm to the whole. Anybody wanna speculate?