I cover my webcams, I have almost entirely de-Googled (since they've been attacking Invidious, I've had to resort to watching the videos on YT if they aren't on PeerTube or Floatplane or whatever), I use Linux and BSD, I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS at some point, and I try to avoid software and services from countries with problematic governments (e.g. China, Russia, USA). I am also using local software, with data sychronised via SyncThing (currently just my notes and passwords, but the list is growing).
I also use Mullvad Browser when available, and either Brave or Epiphany when it isn't.
I am still on the lookout for a decent search engine, though, as all of the ones I've used are either not as private as I thought (e.g. Ecosia, Qwant), or are broken (e.g. LibreY), or did something I disagreed with (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search), or are hostile towards VPN/Tor users (e.g. Startpage), or didn't have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek), or became unavailable to me (e.g. Peekier, MetaGer).
You guys just need time, I think. I'll probably be a proud Mojeek user in the future, but for now I need something a bit different. That said, I have found Mojeek to be excellent for finding smaller blogs and articles that I wouldn't otherwise have read, so it's still pretty useful even if I don't use it as my main engine.
Thanks a lot, these are very useful and will be raised. For further feedback there is https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact and also a submit feedback button on results pages.
Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it’s a universal instruction page for most linux.
Just in case you didn't know, Qwant will have that high because they use Bing's index.
Just fyi https://inv.nadeko.net/ somehow still works. Also there is stuff like freetube/libretube. As for search engines, I assume you have mullvad vpn, you could use mullvad Leta (don’t know how good they are right now, haven’t used them in a while). Also there is Swisscows
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hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
I cover my webcams, I have almost entirely de-Googled (since they've been attacking Invidious, I've had to resort to watching the videos on YT if they aren't on PeerTube or Floatplane or whatever), I use Linux and BSD, I am planning to switch to GrapheneOS at some point, and I try to avoid software and services from countries with problematic governments (e.g. China, Russia, USA). I am also using local software, with data sychronised via SyncThing (currently just my notes and passwords, but the list is growing).
I also use Mullvad Browser when available, and either Brave or Epiphany when it isn't.
I am still on the lookout for a decent search engine, though, as all of the ones I've used are either not as private as I thought (e.g. Ecosia, Qwant), or are broken (e.g. LibreY), or did something I disagreed with (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search), or are hostile towards VPN/Tor users (e.g. Startpage), or didn't have good enough indexes (e.g. Mojeek), or became unavailable to me (e.g. Peekier, MetaGer).
Mojeek@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
Got anymore on that? Always looking to improve
hellfire103@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
You guys just need time, I think. I'll probably be a proud Mojeek user in the future, but for now I need something a bit different. That said, I have found Mojeek to be excellent for finding smaller blogs and articles that I wouldn't otherwise have read, so it's still pretty useful even if I don't use it as my main engine.
Mojeek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
thanks a lot, if you have any search terms which didn't work so well then that's useful for this process
rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
First time I've heard of your project. it looks great!
Do you have any place you'd like to collect result issues? I'd be willing to run it for a while and give feedback on anything out of whack.
The biggest problem I see in about 10 minutes of playing with it:
Official documentation gets trampled by older fan docs.
q="Setting up Tailscale on Linux"
In a perfect world would give you "https://tailscale.com/kb/1031/install-linux"
Bing, Google, Quant, all rate that high (#1), it's a universal instruction page for most linux.
q="Tailscale" does bring me right to the official site.
q="site:tailscale.com tailscale setup" does net a couple of results from their kb, but not 1031.
another example
q="Pinokio Setup"
expecting to headline pinokio.computer as the official site, but there's nothing on the first page.
changing it to q="pinokio" drops you right on the pinokio.computer
q="site:pinokio.computer pinokio setup" results in no results
It's super responsive, please keep up the good work!
Mojeek@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Thanks a lot, these are very useful and will be raised. For further feedback there is https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact and also a submit feedback button on results pages.
Just in case you didn't know, Qwant will have that high because they use Bing's index.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Just fyi https://inv.nadeko.net/ somehow still works. Also there is stuff like freetube/libretube. As for search engines, I assume you have mullvad vpn, you could use mullvad Leta (don’t know how good they are right now, haven’t used them in a while). Also there is Swisscows
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
I try to blend in and avoid posting my main privacy activities in public.
Despite what they say, while obfuscation may not be secure, it sure helps with privacy.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Then why comment dawg
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
Who says that was me?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Wait
What is this place?
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
As the days go by….
Tazerface@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y
New email for every vendor. New password too.i have tons of tracking data out there, but it's rarely connected.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y
The rest of the world