wow, that fluent search is basically the kde plasma’s app launcher

ironfox is not a brand new browser, but a soft fork like librewolf, always kept up to date. what it removes is the garbage google components, nothing useful is removed as I know. it even has a couple additional settings related to privacy, and Unified Push support for some reason I could not yet figure out

Personally, I might have to use two phones in the future, kind of like how I saw some do in China. One for the official, mandated bullshit, and one for personal things, with an operating system that does not snitch on every action I take.

but how will you make sure the mandatory phone does not snitch on you when it’s around you? Considering you’ll probably keep it at home, maybe even bring it with you when out and about when needed for some reason.

which I presume is nowhere close to feature equivalent to Firefox.

why do you presume that?

oh don’t you worry, it won’t. Because those who refuse the surveillance will face the highest prices.

recently I bought something in a shop I rarely go to. plenty of things they sold for two times the price if you didn’t have a member card.

for the record, I don’t believe logging in with wechat is any better, and recaptcha is present on the utilities websites of my european country leaning towards china.

if you were the illiterate consumer you would be scrolling slop on youtube instead of asking questions like this here

doesn’t matter when it can’t be determined whether it transmits anything or not. if this is the future, then it is very dark.

No way the definition of normal I gave is the common one.

maybe, but definitely not a rare one. for instance I regularly hear that people deem others weird because the other person cares about their privacy, and does “extreme” things to achieve it, like not using facebook or using a less known email provider. while I think it’s the normal thing to do so, others (mostly who don’t care about privacy) think it’s not normal, reason being it’s not the common thing to do.

I was meaning it mostly about this part:

Something being normal is rooted on it being the norm, as in, something typical. If you think something is odd, you can’t feel like it’s normal just for you, that’s not what the norm means. Maybe it seems natural to you? Sure, but not normal.

then that’s a problem we must solve. Because an adtech company should definitely not have any business in that.

EU have “banned” Google Analytics

that seemed worthless though, I still see it at lots of places.

username checks out

so it must be a problem with your connector maybe

or with their programming language

its interesting when people seem to intentionally misunderstand statements.

I’m not a fan, but obviously, AI on the desktop is not about the CLI and bash, which are not the desktop.

I hope it will be that way. in the end it could be the incentive to improve accessibility and UI automation tools for wayland.

Interestingly, according to the common interpretation also mentioned by @fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone this is not normal.

but what is it, if not normal?

You’re right, you’re not going to achieve complete anonymity if you’re interacting with Google services in any way, but you can reduce the amount of information that they receive.

its not even about complete anonymity. google has zero business in when I’m logging into my utilities company account, or other semi-governmental portals!

I don’t think this is a problem. these data structures have become semi-standard,and they are working fibe, aren’t they? should they just change it for change’s sake, so that all clients and servers need to implement compatibility code? the problem with lemmy developers is not these standards they have created

“what are those? I only know duplavé.”

my voyager has counted badly few updoots to you for that!