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Anon gets challenged. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Which plate was Barack Obama holding? Come on, be honest now.

Ecosia.org updates its Privacy Policy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kagi uses its own crawler, right? But yeah, I expect DDG to follow Ecosia's lead.

Reddit forces personalized ads, starts X-like user payment program in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Spez is really trying to turn Reddit into 9gag, huh?

Seems legit, Google knows what is best for me. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Isn't AdGuard just DNS?

It isn't "just" DNS level blocking, no. They have an adblocker for browsers, too. uBlock is using their filters.

other mobile browsers you don't have any at all

Some have built-in adblockers (ex: Brave, DDG), others support extensions (ex: Safari, Orion).

Back from fishing! in c/[email protected]

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

Welcome back! Is it a good time to mention that before you left for your fishing trip, you forgot to push 1.11.2 to TestFlight? 😐

Can someone please explain why not to use Brave browser ? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't care that you can disable it

It's opt-in.

4get – A metasearch engine in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Contrary to SearX/SearXNG, you can't select more than one source for your search results. I honestly don't see the point in this case. Just use DDG, unless you don't want to use Yandex/Marginalia/wiby directly? The other sources included are DDG, Brave and Mojeek, but those already respect your privacy.

No, Google's not in there, but then again so what? I've had to disable Google as a source for SearXNG because it was systematically returning garbage results.

With 4get you can set a different source for your web searches, pics and news results, however. That's a good feature.

Anon has an Impactful experience in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Nice quads. Very nice.

YouTube is going to remove ad controls for creators in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hardly any, even though Odysee has an option to auto upload whatever you're uploading to YT on their platform.

Infinity for Reddit is dead. in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weren't they switching to a subscription model? I know they pushed back the release of this new version but apparently Spez didn't feel like giving more free API access in the meantime. Or maybe the Infinity devs gave up on Reddit. Who knows.

[BUG] When swiping left, a banner shows up to a newspaper app in c/[email protected]

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

Am I missing this option?

~~It should be in Settings -> General.~~

Edit: scratch that. I just checked the PWA and it doesn't offer this option, sorry :-/

I'm also seeing ads that are hidden off-screen

That's pretty weird, maybe make a post about it? I never saw anything like this personally.

[BUG] When swiping left, a banner shows up to a newspaper app in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's because you open your links "In App". Switch this off and you won't have that kind of banner anymore.

This is a problem with the PWA. Basically, the last website opened in-app that may have suggested to install a native app via a banner will keep said banner in memory.