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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
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
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:
Firefox 78.3
Hmm, someone wants to get hacked.
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?
nah that's if you made a linux distro
are you okay?
Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking. That gif was directed at you specifically
i should have blocked you for simping big tech
how can you even harden a proprietary walled garden
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.
This entire privacy thing isn't such a problem in the EU luckily lol
Me: "So companies can't hoard my data?"
EU: "That's right"
Me: "Cool, and I'll encrypt my chat just to be safe."
EU: "Now wait a minute..."
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?
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.
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