ngwoo

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[–] ngwoo 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, do you know if these containers also obfuscate browser and device fingerprinting? Separating cookies is important but unless it also blocks fingerprinters (in a different way for each container) the site will instantly know the same person is using both accounts.

[–] ngwoo 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The only way for the site to know to not show the pop-up again is ironically by saving that information in a cookie

[–] ngwoo 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I gotta say it's refreshing to have a place to post where this kind of comment isn't immediately deleted and the user IP banned like Reddit

[–] ngwoo 3 points 6 months ago

I tried kagi for a month and the results were probably as good or slightly better than Google for 90% of searches but it completely falls apart any time you want something local or hyper-specific. It made me realize that the personalization that people hate with Google's results actually saves a ton of time because I had to retry a lot of kagi searches with additional context.

Blocking ads and trackers in your browser and then using Google without an account will get you most of the way to what kagi is doing.

[–] ngwoo 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Big tech needs far stricter regulations but I don't think people would like the internet very much if Google was forced to sell off services like YouTube. Nobody else is offering unlimited free hosting, discoverability, promotion, and bandwidth for video content and nobody ever will again. If the chromium project was sold off to some other shitty tech company, do you really think they'd keep the open source 'ungoogled' version readily available for everyone? A Google breakup would just mean that other tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, etc get more powerful.

If there's an appetite for breakups why not start with the companies that control our food and news

[–] ngwoo 125 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This should be what finally starts the push to ban mandatory arbitration clauses.

[–] ngwoo 10 points 6 months ago

I have a lightbulb that I can change the colour temperature of. There's no internet or app connection, you toggle through the different states by rapidly turning it off and on again. Whoever designed it deserves a medal

[–] ngwoo 22 points 6 months ago

As much as I wish politics could be more civil, I'm glad that Democrats are finally playing the same game as Republicans and getting a bit rude.

[–] ngwoo 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

We just need a way to make it easy to seamlessly transfer both users and communities to another instance then it really won't matter if one gets disproportionately large because a shutdown won't affect anything. Ideally the inner workings should be as invisible to the end user as possible.

[–] ngwoo 1 points 6 months ago

Wasn't saying that they don't work on Linux just that changing OS for a controller isn't really feasible

[–] ngwoo 3 points 6 months ago

I'll check it out again then, thanks.

[–] ngwoo 30 points 6 months ago

Diabetes medication as well, not sure why the headlines aren't including that.

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