The recent advent of governments worldwide trying to force corporations to build backdoors into their services for the ‘safety of children’ or to ‘counter terrorism’ arguably does more harm than good for the common people.
I’m kind of disappointed in ecosia for implementing a new feature that would send user data to Microsoft and Google. I liked it not only for it’s environmental mission but also because it had decent privacy.
Ecosia always sent user data to Microsoft (Bing), it’s just that they will also be pulling search results from Google now so now they’re contractually bound to send some data to Google as well.
The point is that it never was for extremely privacy minded folks, it’s ofcourse a better choice than using Google or Bing directly because you’re atleast not getting profiled as far as I can tell, but it can only do so much when it is dependent on ad revenue and has to work with Bing and Google for search results.
I’m not a privacy expert and this is just my opinion as a fellow Ecosia user, so take this with a grain of salt.
Well, that’s essentially what it boils down to. Now it’s up to users to decide based on their respective threat models whether they wanna use Ecosia or not.
If you’re using Bing anyways, consider switching to Ecosia, it’s a non-profit search engine, they pull their search results from Bing and plant trees across the globe with their profits.
It might not be for extremely privacy conscious people because they do send some of your data (obfuscated IP addresses, user agent string etc.) to Microsoft because they use Bing but it’s still orders of magnitude better than using Bing directly.
And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....
What's a cool website you’ve visited that no one seems to know of?
Can I follow Mastodon accounts from my Lemmy account?
We can follow lemmy accounts from Mastodon but I was wondering if we can do it the other way round?...
NewPipe 0.25.2 released with multiple audio tracks support and enhanced accessibility (alternativeto.net)
NewPipe blog post
BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! (lemmy.one)
Nevertheless I chose my Yubikey instead.
Never change Lemmy (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.world/comment/5668411
A backdoor "for the good guys only" is simply not possible. (tutanota.com)
https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/9bf34bd7-49a8-41cb-a0cc-da1abf4be795.webp
How do you guys use the "Private notes about this account" feature on other mastodon profiles?
Just curious to know the different possible use cases.
Twitch will now let streamers simultaneously stream on any service they want (www.theverge.com)
Thoughts on Ecosia's new privacy policy?
I’m kind of disappointed in ecosia for implementing a new feature that would send user data to Microsoft and Google. I liked it not only for it’s environmental mission but also because it had decent privacy.
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Youtube-dl website has been taken down by Uberspace following court-ordered ban (alternativeto.net)
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser (github.com)
And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....
Thoughts on this Reddit post claiming 'Lemmy doesn't care about privacy'? (old.reddit.com)