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What standards is this headline guilty of violating?

It says what the article will be about, which is what headlines are for.

Lindsay Nikole is also a great biology/evolution channel I haven’t seen mentioned elsewhere, she has amazing energy.

I like Nebula. It’s not too expensive, there’s a lot of great creators, and it’s an easy way to support a variety without subscribing to all sorts of Patreons.

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.

but with !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

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:

• https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
• https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

I assume it blocks something from loading, but I wouldn’t exactly know. I haven’t looked into it.

this place simply isn’t big enough to have the niche communities

Yeah. Wanted to recommend Lemmy to a friend, but the few topics they were mainly interested in had little to no engagement.

Nice example link you used there

Generally anything that comes after a questionmark in a URL can be safely stripped out, though not always. The random string of characters you get after a youtu.be link is tracking, the ?t=123 is a timestamp.

uBlock Origin also has a filter built-in, though you have to enable it. It’s under Filter Lists > Privacy > AdGuard URL Tracking Protection

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

this can’t be an accurate or reasonably accurate depiction, these are two completely different storms in a different category after all.

What do you mean? This shows the differences between the two.

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.

For YouTube it displays the YouTube menu on first right-click, then the Firefox context menu on second right-click for me. On Windows.

If that is not the case for you, something may be broken. Have you tried running Firefox without any add-ins already?