confusedwiseman

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Why do you use firefox? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

To stay away from the influence of google’s business practices and their influence on chromium.

Is Brave Search trustworthy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Must be. I had difficulties with it at one point, and I ended up living at the URL from some search results and was able to figure out what it wanted. I thought the missing slash might have been your issue.

Is Brave Search trustworthy? in c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think Qwant is as close as you’re going to get unless you can set up searchxng to do what you are asking.

Now, you might be able to get better diversity in results if you use a vpn to move to more diverse or contrasting cities.

I often find news sources external to the US to be very interesting insights to what we see rammed down our throats.

What search engines do you use? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Daily driver: Qwant

Niche searches: kagi

Not privacy friendly— Ai: perplexity.ai

Have you kept a Google or Outlook email? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ahh, got it. That’s a feature I never used.

Have you kept a Google or Outlook email? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you need an email for it? I thought you could still use it without being logged in.

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Have you kept a Google or Outlook email? (beehaw.org)
 

I've moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I'll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services.

I currently see a lot less value in the google account than outlook, but that's because my family does need access to full blown office. Libre office does 98% of what I need, but on occasion I do need office. An install of 2010 would probably meet that requirement as well. Firefox is set to delete cookies on exit, and I do not ever stay signed into these services.

Does anyone else keep free service email accounts around, and if so, what do you use them for? What's the pit-fall I'm not seeing if I try to restrict them and treat them with the Principle of Least Privileged model?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used perplexity.ai to get this which gives a couple sources you may want to consider.

According to various sources, including DistroWatch and Tecmint, the most popular Linux distributions in 2023 are: Linux Mint Manjaro Ubuntu Debian Fedora Zorin OS Solus Elementary OS Arch Linux CentOS