Mastodon MigrationOct 2, 2023

So, this surveillance capitalism thing is totally out of hand. Today @protonmail had a great explainer (https://mastodon.social/@protonmail/111165171600485248) on the mind bending evil Google is up to with it's new "privacy features". But pretty much every tech company is now in the business of profiling you and monetizing your tidbits.

What can you do? A lot as it turns out, but if you just want ONE EASY THING that you can do today, SWITCH TO FIREFOX (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) and make DuckDuckGo your default search engine.

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@mastodonmigration @protonmail why not selfhost a search engine with SearXNG
GitHub - searxng/searxng: SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled. - searxng/searxng

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Show threadpeter kleiweg 🇪🇺
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Why not selfhost a search engine? I am not going to index the entire web with my Raspberry Pi! That's why.
Oct 2, 2023 at 10:10pmWeb
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@pebbe @mastodonmigration @protonmail fair point, I believe it doesn’t do that though, instead combing the results of multiple search engines while preserving privacy. Not exactly sure how it works however