I’m using a browser setup hardened against fingerprinting, block all known trackers, and cookies are barred from cross-site activity.

Might not be impossible to track me regardless, but at least I’m not giving them everything with a chef’s kiss on top.

Blocking instances works with the OG Lemmy, but they didn’t build the function into the app, you’d have to go through the website (that one time only).

Or can you block all users of a specific instance with Voyager?

I’ve tested kagi and agree that the search results are great. What I don’t like is that it’s making anonymous searching impossible, since I have to be logged in to use it (or use my unique token as part of the url for mobile searches).

Ultimately this means to me that in a private window mode (or even logged out with a fingerprinting resistant browser) I do not have the same degree of anonymity I enjoy even when using Google, let alone DDG or others.

I like the idea of not being dependent on google, but exposing my entire search history to one single entity is not my answer of choice.

The same crap is going around Instagram and other social media pages. Often when you check out the profiles, they have some link obscured via url shortener that resolves to some random porn site or flat out scam page.

They try to comment first to get upvotes I guess.

And that’s the reason why I don’t use it, I need specific websites that access my local time, and apparently whitelisting is not a thing.

Wow, that’s quite something. Hopefully a temporary thing due to spam issues or so…

I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.

Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?

🍟+ 🧀 + 🥃 maybe? I guess it’s supposed to be a whiskey tumbler, but it looks close enough in color…

Damn, I wanted to make exactly the same joke.

Tinywall is great and free.

I can’t see the option on my free account either, despite installing the most recent update earlier today.

BEAST, released in 1984, I must have played it in '88 I think. Was 4 at the time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beast_(video_game)

Why do those numbers even exist? In my country we got ID cards and passports, plus some tax identifier that is used for social security and tax payments by our employer into the accounts, and that’s that. All that’s required for actual identification is a valid ID (including passport as long as you have a recent address registration). Their numbers change every 10 years, or you could apply to have it replaced earlier.

My webhost allows passwords of all length and complexities in the password set field, but will strip $ and & on the login mask on their main website, like in the top right corner.

A failed login will automatically bring you to a dedicated login.xxx.yyy subdomain and prompt a password reset, but if you use the login mask there instead, the exact same password works.

I just don’t care. Just like I don’t expect people to care whether I like them.

Life’s too short to have an opinion on everything and anyone.

Sounds pretty much like a Technocracy, with the double blind bit to reduce selection bias. Not a bad idea.

I move around a lot and always pick up the local language.

Oh I forgot to mention Luxembourgish as well, used to be pretty fluent, but didn’t have much of a chance to practice in the last 15 years or so.

Native German, fluent English, full working proficiency in Norwegian, (understand Swedish and Danish as a direct consequence), somewhat proficient in Dutch and French, and my Chinese is enough to get by. Couldn’t hold a longer conversation though.

I live in Malaysia (previously China) and have been using HK and Singapore pretty much ever since, with no issues for ~6 years.

Ohhhhh that’s news indeed! I played the add-on, didn’t know there’s another one. Then I guess it’s time to replay on the doom engine, thanks a lot!

Edit: Wait, that happened in 2013. The mod I played was only finished in 2023.

Edit 2: So I played “The Black Parade”. Guess I must have confused "dark"and “black” somewhere…