It’s the official bang for Startpage. You can’t configure custom bangs in DDG; Kagi can do that.
Oh, like so. When you said “same” I assumed you meant Google as well, and I found !s to be an intuitive bang for that. Startpage makes more sense, I know they get their results through Google.
I’ve found DDG/bing’s results to be quite lacking.
It seems our experiences have been different, then.
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!s
Is that built-in, or do you have to configure it yourself? Configuring one is fine, but DDG has quite a few I semi-frequently use (!i, !g, !gi, !yt, !w, !gt), even Google itself feels like a downgrade when I want to search an image and I manually have to click the ‘images’ tab after performing my query.
It’s much more convenient to just have good search results to begin with though
I agree, which is why I’ve been happy to continue using DDG.
I keep hearing about Kagi, maybe I should try it sometime.
DDG has been quite serviceable to me, however. If I can’t find something I can just add a quick !g to my already existing query and look it up on Google instead, which I’ve found rather convenient.
As if Google’s results haven’t been getting worse
Correct. Just like the ESRB
That probably makes more sense
Websites automatically adapting to viewport size is pretty handy, not having to select whether you want the mobile site or not each and every time you load the page is generally considered a good thing.
You may also want the website to adapt to smaller or wider windows, unless you want every website to become one where you manually zoom in and pan around.
Similar things go for language and timezone.
There are various ways to spoof various settings about your browser, through add-ins or otherwise.
Yes and no. There are still plenty of things that get tracked regardless of JavaScript, and disabling JavaScript is it’s own mark they can track.
Do Not Track is one such request, but screen size, viewport size, language, timezone/region, whether you block ads or not, browser/engine version, and many more are all things that do get tracked without the need for JS.
All have legitimate reasons, but can also be abused by being tracked server-side.
The cover your tracks page on eff.org has some pretty good explanations for most things.
Fun fact, the reason the TOR browser launches in windowed mode is so that this viewport size tracking is less of a marker.
it might serve as an identifier, i think
It does. It’s yet another data point used in fingerprinting, and not many people enable it. 'tis but a single setting, but combined with everything else they can track about your browser it is effective.
In case you want to run a test to see how fingerprinting affects your browser:
He also had that one Elden Ring “build” where he was carrying like three shields
This is for the original release, not the sequel.
One Hand Operation + and the “pull screen down” action are very welcome, but ideally wouldn’t be needed.
Anyone know about any Sesame alternatives? That app seems largely abandoned. It still suffices, but it’s missing some stuff I’d like to see (like integration with a work profile).
I came across Pixel Search; which looks nice but doesn’t quite have the same ease of use Sesame does. It also hasn’t been updated in a year.
You could have some sort of account with the browser company. They aggregate site visits, then do a monthly payout.
But that would mean storing history for users? Though surely there’s a way to anonimize that.
Why’s it gotta be crypto though
I think the bigger issue is them potentially losing their Google income.
They’ve failed to diversify their income with a bunch of failed subscription services, Google is in hot waters because of anti-competitive behaviour; they’re going to need something.
Which isn’t to say I like it. But “this is happening because they take Google money” is parroted beneath every slightly negative thing Mozilla does.
There’s an article linked, perhaps it might give some insight.
If you’re wondering why Android 15’s codename is Vanilla Ice Cream and not something that starts with the letter “A,” I can’t say for sure. It’s likely because Google had already chosen Vanilla Ice Cream as the internal codename for Android 15 before the first trunk stable release, so it didn’t want to go back and change every mention of the codename, especially since that could break some build flows.
So this build change actually originated in the upcoming Android 15, but since that codename had already been chosen they didn’t rename it to A.
GPD has been in the handheld PC game for quite some time. But, unlike Valve who can sell their deck with little revenue thanks to their storefront, they actually need to make a profit on the individual units.