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[–] [email protected] 108 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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:

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

bill gate pp small and soft

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Firefox 78.3

Hmm, someone wants to get hacked.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago
[–] Gullible 65 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You print and mail your data? You could really cut out a step by getting their fax number.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 4 months ago

Make sure to page them first so they know to go pick it up.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

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

[–] Noel_Skum 14 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Browser is an app on your computer

Search engines are apps on other people’s computers that you access via a website

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Every corporation on the internet:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

No, it clearly says Anonymous

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nah that's if you made a linux distro

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking. That gif was directed at you specifically

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

how can you even harden a proprietary walled garden

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There are ways. Privacy Guides has a page on it. I also use NextDNS, which has a blocklist for iDevices, so Apple can't track me (afaik).

I'd rather have an Android, though. Either DivestOS or /e/. I'm just waiting for my iPhone to burn out first.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

thats a good thing. if you have it, use it till it explodes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Bitches love a good BSD

[–] MeDuViNoX 28 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a bait to collect technical data from privacy-oriented users

Look, they just list all their specs!

/hj

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 15 points 4 months ago

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] alci 5 points 4 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everyone be sure to post your username, email and password too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Sure thing, here's my totally legit and not at all made up info for y'all.

Username: Derpus Maximus Email: biobies69@totallyrealemailiswear Password: 2dumb2live

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Just for when one is down or is blocked by a search engine. Happens sometimes and I have 5 bookmarked

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The average user?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
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