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  1. #Cloudflare predicts that in five years, #nonhuman #internettraffic, driven by #AIagents, could be 1,000 times higher than #humantraffic. This surge in #bot activity, which closely resembles human #browsing but at machine speed, could render human presence on the internet negligible. The rise of AI agents raises concerns about the future of independent websites and the overall quality of the online experience. techspot.com/news/113410-cloud #tech #news #ainews

  2. #Cloudflare predicts that in five years, #nonhuman #internettraffic, driven by #AIagents, could be 1,000 times higher than #humantraffic. This surge in #bot activity, which closely resembles human #browsing but at machine speed, could render human presence on the internet negligible. The rise of AI agents raises concerns about the future of independent websites and the overall quality of the online experience. techspot.com/news/113410-cloud #tech #news #ainews

  3. Search Engine Roundtable: Google Related Searches Based On Your Browsing. “Google is now testing showing related searches based on your browsing. I suspect this is based on your browsing history on Chrome, beyond what you may search for in Google but based on what pages you browse.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/search-engine-roundtable-google-related-searches-based-on-your-browsing/
  4. Search Engine Roundtable: Google Related Searches Based On Your Browsing. “Google is now testing showing related searches based on your browsing. I suspect this is based on your browsing history on Chrome, beyond what you may search for in Google but based on what pages you browse.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/search-engine-roundtable-google-related-searches-based-on-your-browsing/
  5. 🚀 Wow, a #revolutionary #userscript for the laziest of us too tired to open TWO whole tabs for #Hacker News! 🤯 Next up: a groundbreaking #tool that auto-refreshes your browser so you don't have to blink. 🙄
    github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewh #lazy #browsing #auto-refresh #News #productivity #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🚀 Wow, a #revolutionary #userscript for the laziest of us too tired to open TWO whole tabs for #Hacker News! 🤯 Next up: a groundbreaking #tool that auto-refreshes your browser so you don't have to blink. 🙄
    github.com/twalichiewicz/HNewh #lazy #browsing #auto-refresh #News #productivity #HackerNews #ngated

  7. Trying new setups for my #Firefox Browsers.

    Android:
    - ClearURLs
    - Consent-O-Matic
    - CAD (Cookie AutoDelete)
    - Privacy Badger

    PC:
    - Auto Container
    - I don't care about cookies

    Thoughts or recommendations are welcome 🤗

    #Plugins #Browsing

  8. War of the Walled Gardens!!

    And the only real winners are the bomb makers, like #Google and #Cloudflare and InfoSec giants.

    #Browsing is not only dead, it is a fetid and rotting corpse, zombified.

  9. War of the Walled Gardens!!

    And the only real winners are the bomb makers, like #Google and #Cloudflare and InfoSec giants.

    #Browsing is not only dead, it is a fetid and rotting corpse, zombified.

  10. There's one thing beginners always get wrong: #Incognito mode doesn't protect you from your #ISP or the web server. It simply ensures that no data, such as your #browser #history, is left on your device.

    If you really want to browse the web anonymously, you have to use #TOR.

    #privacy #meme #internet #browsing #surfing #noob #understanding #education #cover #anonymous #web #www #hiding #online #knowledge #knowhow

  11. #Cloudflare, #Google #Chrome, #Microsoft #Edge, and #Mozilla #Firefox are #collaborating to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs). #PACTs will allow websites to generate tokens that assert a #browsing session is #legitimate, reducing the need for #identitychecks. While the goal is to improve user experience and combat bot fraud, concerns remain about potential #privacy implications and the impact on #openweb principles. theregister.com/software/2026/ #tech #media #news

  12. #Cloudflare, #Google #Chrome, #Microsoft #Edge, and #Mozilla #Firefox are #collaborating to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs). #PACTs will allow websites to generate tokens that assert a #browsing session is #legitimate, reducing the need for #identitychecks. While the goal is to improve user experience and combat bot fraud, concerns remain about potential #privacy implications and the impact on #openweb principles. theregister.com/software/2026/ #tech #media #news

  13. I firmly believe that #Windows #users who only #browse the #web, watch #movies, use #word processing and #email, and do some basic #photo #editing are much better off with #Linux than with #Windows11. This is likely true for 85% of home Windows users.

    You don't even have to make any major adjustments because the software looks almost identical on Windows and Linux:

    1) For #browsing use #Firefox (or #LibreWolf).
    2) For word processing use #LibreOffice.
    3) For emails use #Thunderbird.
    4) For movies use #VLC.
    5) For photo editing use #Gimp (or #Krita).
    6) There are now also better alternatives to many other Windows applications available on Linux...

    So please explain to me why #XDA thinks Linux is only for Windows users who just surf the web? source: xda-developers.com/linux-becom…

    Which Linux distribution do you recommend for #beginners switching from Windows?

    #tux #linux #software #os #choice #microsoft #user #browser #email #office #image #gui #experience #foss #floss #freedom #bigtech #surveillance #tracking #economy #business #company #community #change #distro #distribution #opensource #gnu #gpl #noob #newbie #beginner #recommendation #program #application
    Linux is quietly becoming the better choice for Windows users who just browse the web

  14. Recently I encountered this unusual page display when attempting to visit a website. The phrase, “Please switch to #normal #browsing”, is telling.

    I always understood the #internet to be a global #network of interconnected #electronic devices that serves as a utilitarian information resource for #humanity, not intended to function as a means of personal data collection. A new #Alexandria if you will.

    Whence lies the point at which such a transition was accomplished? A slow slide, surely.

  15. Recently I encountered this unusual page display when attempting to visit a website. The phrase, “Please switch to #normal #browsing”, is telling.

    I always understood the #internet to be a global #network of interconnected #electronic devices that serves as a utilitarian information resource for #humanity, not intended to function as a means of personal data collection. A new #Alexandria if you will.

    Whence lies the point at which such a transition was accomplished? A slow slide, surely.

  16. The Register: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload. “ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sources, according to a researcher who found the prompt injection technique and reported it to OpenAI. This means that if a user asks the chatbot to summarize a web page that contains hidden instructions, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/the-register-chatgpt-blindly-trusts-browser-content-turning-the-page-into-a-payload/
  17. The Register: ChatGPT blindly trusts browser content, turning the page into a payload. “ChatGPT can’t tell its own generated content from attacker-controlled Markdown pulled from external sources, according to a researcher who found the prompt injection technique and reported it to OpenAI. This means that if a user asks the chatbot to summarize a web page that contains hidden instructions, […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/31/the-register-chatgpt-blindly-trusts-browser-content-turning-the-page-into-a-payload/
  18. Thank for fucking the hell out of .

    The ultimate enshittification.

  19. Google va tuer le web tel que nous le connaissons. A coup d'enshitification ia.

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goog

    TL;DR : Ça va être moche. Les utilisateurs ne viendront plus sur votre site web, Google leur servira un vomi prédigéré par leur ia, cliquer sur des liens deviendra anecdotique.

    #Tech
    #web
    #Browsing
    #internet
    #ia #ai
    #NightmareOnLLMstreet

  20. Google va tuer le web tel que nous le connaissons. A coup d'enshitification ia.

    techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goog

    TL;DR : Ça va être moche. Les utilisateurs ne viendront plus sur votre site web, Google leur servira un vomi prédigéré par leur ia, cliquer sur des liens deviendra anecdotique.

    #Tech
    #web
    #Browsing
    #internet
    #ia #ai
    #NightmareOnLLMstreet

  21. RE: mastodon.online/@Infrogmation/

    Browsing an unknown site without using an AdBlocker

    is like having sex with a total stranger without using a condom.

    #internet #browsing #adblock #privacy

  22. [en] Is #AI "#supercharged #surveillance" #legal? (#USA)

    "... answer is not straightforward."

    "... huge amount of information that the #government can #collect on Americans that is not itself regulated ... by the #Constitution .. #Fourth #Amendment ..."

    "... the government can purchase commercial data ... which can include #sensitive personal information like #mobile #location and web #browsing records."

    "What AI can do is it can take a lot of information, none of which is by itself sensitive, and therefore none of which by itself is #regulated, and it can give the government a lot of powers ...".

    "AI can aggregate ... information to spot patterns, draw inferences ... at massive scale ... law has not caught up with #technological reality".

    technologyreview.com/2026/03/0

    #privacy #pii

  23. [en] Is #AI "#supercharged #surveillance" #legal? (#USA)

    "... answer is not straightforward."

    "... huge amount of information that the #government can #collect on Americans that is not itself regulated ... by the #Constitution .. #Fourth #Amendment ..."

    "... the government can purchase commercial data ... which can include #sensitive personal information like #mobile #location and web #browsing records."

    "What AI can do is it can take a lot of information, none of which is by itself sensitive, and therefore none of which by itself is #regulated, and it can give the government a lot of powers ...".

    "AI can aggregate ... information to spot patterns, draw inferences ... at massive scale ... law has not caught up with #technological reality".

    technologyreview.com/2026/03/0

    #privacy #pii

  24. Oh sure, let's turn the chaotic swirl of #internet #browsing into a #game of "Simon Says" for #AI #agents 🤖🎲. Because clearly, what we need is a #protocol that transforms the thrilling spontaneity of the web into a plodding series of atomic baby steps—because why race when you can crawl, right? 🚀🐢
    github.com/theredsix/agent-bro #Chaos #HackerNews #ngated

  25. Oh sure, let's turn the chaotic swirl of #internet #browsing into a #game of "Simon Says" for #AI #agents 🤖🎲. Because clearly, what we need is a #protocol that transforms the thrilling spontaneity of the web into a plodding series of atomic baby steps—because why race when you can crawl, right? 🚀🐢
    github.com/theredsix/agent-bro #Chaos #HackerNews #ngated

  26. I have survived a visit to that quintessential woman's shop, Card Factory.

    What is it with women and card shops? They can seem to spend hours just scanning the damn things. There was an old woman next to me looking at the "For her" section, next to which was the "Wife" section (It's her indoors 'birthday Friday). As I flicked through the options, I swear to god her hand hovered over a wife card. It took all my willpower not to say "Fook off, you're having a laugh!"
    #Browsing

  27. I have survived a visit to that quintessential woman's shop, Card Factory.

    What is it with women and card shops? They can seem to spend hours just scanning the damn things. There was an old woman next to me looking at the "For her" section, next to which was the "Wife" section (It's her indoors 'birthday Friday). As I flicked through the options, I swear to god her hand hovered over a wife card. It took all my willpower not to say "Fook off, you're having a laugh!"
    #Browsing

  28. Best-loved Indie used/rare bookstores visited to date

    Identified below are my favorite independent used bookstores that have been visited thus far. Not included are chains like Half-Price Books. Several of those listed are also sellers of rare and collectible books, as well. While many bookstores today sell some used/rare books, this list emphasizes those shops that primarily focus on used and/or rare books.

    As more used/rare bookstores are visited both here and abroad, the treasured ones will be added to this list. Stay tuned!

    Peace!

    _______

    Big Star Books & Music – Santa Fe, New Mexico – added 4/19/26

    Big Star Books & Music

    Curious Book Shop – East Lansing, Michigan

    Defunct Books – Nashville (Five Points), Tennessee

    Defunct Books

    East Nashville Books – Nashville, Tennessee – added 5/10/26

    Grimey’s Preloved Music and Books – Nashville, Tennessee

    Hyde Brothers Booksellers – Fort Wayne, Indiana – wonderful store with two kitty greeters (Scout and Sherlock) – added 5/18/26

    Landmark Books – Traverse City, Michigan – books and vintage typewriters, oh my!

    Open Door Bookshop – Roma (Trastevere), Italy – I love this store and my favorite outside the USA.

    Open Door Bookshop Open Door Bookshop

    Legatoria/Libraio Prampolini – Catania, Sicily, Italy – ‘literally’ an Italian institution

    Quirky Used Books – Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Second Story Books – Durango, Colorado – none better in the USA. Two floors of absolute perfection. So much charm and uniqueness, including books displayed in three old vaults. An absolute gem! – added 3/24/26

    One of three vaults in Second Story Books View of the second floor at Second Story Books

    Under Charlie’s Covers – Albuquerque (Bernalillo), New Mexico – sadly now closed (May 2026) due to a substantial rent increase. – updated 5/18/26

    #books #bookshops #booskstores #browsing #cities #culture #fun #geography #history #Italy #landUse #ThirdPlaces #tourism #travel #usedBooks
  29. 🎉 Behold the epic saga of building a "secure, #scalable agent sandbox" - because who doesn't need a fortress for their #stealth browsers and undetectable infra? 🚀🔒 Complete with buzzword bingo and fingerprint-resistant fonts, it's the #tech equivalent of shouting "Look how clever we are!" from the rooftops. 🙄👩‍💻
    browser-use.com/posts/two-ways #secure #sandbox #buzzwords #browsing #HackerNews #ngated

  30. 🎉 Behold the epic saga of building a "secure, #scalable agent sandbox" - because who doesn't need a fortress for their #stealth browsers and undetectable infra? 🚀🔒 Complete with buzzword bingo and fingerprint-resistant fonts, it's the #tech equivalent of shouting "Look how clever we are!" from the rooftops. 🙄👩‍💻
    browser-use.com/posts/two-ways #secure #sandbox #buzzwords #browsing #HackerNews #ngated

  31. Protecting the Literary Zeitgeist of Hyde Park’s Indie Book Scene

    “A good bookstore sells books, but its primary product, if you will, is the browsing experience…One of the great benefits of the act of browsing is the rumination it evokes.”Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores

    If there is a neighborhood in Chicago that reaches for the pinnacle of a book lover’s nirvana, it has to be Hyde Park. Surrounding the University of Chicago and situated just south of the Loop, this epicenter of learning, education, and literature is a bibliophile’s wonderland of Indie bookstores. 

    Source: schoolstreetposters.com

    However, just when it felt like the dust had settled from years of fighting off the tentacles of Amazon’s loss-leading blitzkrieg on bookstores, a new threat has set up shop right in Hyde Park’s very midst. This time it’s not a digital menace, but instead a big-box goliath — Barnes & Noble.

    Yes, in a free market, competition is supposed to benefit the consumer. But, and this is a big but, at what cost? Price is not and should never be the sole factor, especially in the book realm. What about the value of the experience? What about service? What about variety? What about the discovery of the unexpected? What about home-grown? What about locally owned and operated? What about sanctuary-like ambiance? What about a delicate mix of existing independent bookstores who live and operate as a cohesive draw to Hyde Park?

    “The value is, and always has been, at least in the good and serious bookstores, in the experience of being among books–an experience afforded to anyone who enters the space with curiosity and time. And the yield is discovery, not of what we think we know we want, but of that which we have yet to encounter.” Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores

    Typically, a big-box store will not draw people from far outside the local vicinity when it has dozens of locations spread all over Chicagoland (21 at last count).  Meanwhile, a unique and varied collection of Indie bookstores can and will do just that (draw customers from further afield) because of the collective experience they offer — and that sublimely satisfying pastime known as “browsing” where one can wander, wonder, discover, ponder, and partake without interruption. Such a unique labor of love [browsing] can never be truly replicated in a big box. Imitated maybe. Replicated, never.

    “Big-name box bookstores have installed cafes and armchairs precisely because people like to hang out around books. Next time you’re in one of those cavernous megasellers, see for yourself how they’ve worked yo create ambiance. Look at the shelf placement, how they’ve been arranged to mark off cozy little reading nooks. Somebody’s tried very hard to make you forget you’re in a warehouse.” Source: Wendy Welch, “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap”

    University of Chicago in the heart of Hyde Park – Source: pme.uchicago.edu

    Call & Response, 57th Street, Powell’s, Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Bookstore, and Build Coffee & Books all combine to fulfill a literarian’s needs in this special corner of the Windy City.  Why, other than to disrupt the curated zeitgeist of Hyde Park, does B &N really need to be there?

    Hopefully, over time B &N will find itself out of place in Hyde Park and move on to greener pastures elsewhere. And if they do hang around for longer, it’s as a cohort versus a predator.

    My guess is the good people who shop the existing Indie bookstores in and around Hyde Park will continue their time-honored tradition of supporting the stores that germinated in and around Hyde Park and avoid the intruder. May it be so.

    In the interim, either the individual store websites or bookshop.org offer easy access for all of us who cannot be physically in Chicago on a regular basis to assist the Indie bookstores in Hyde Park. All of them, except the campus bookstore have a presence on the bookshop.org site (57th Street through Seminary Co-op).

    Peace, happy reading, and great browsing!

    “Every great bookstore allows the reader to get lost in it.” – Source: Jeff Deutsch, I”n Praise of Good Bookstores

    #57thStreetBooks #books #bookstores #browsing #BuildCoffeeBooks #CallResponseBooks #Chicago #competition #history #HydePark #indie #literature #opinion #pondering #PowellSBooks #reading #retail #rumination #SeminaryCoOpBooks

  32. Protecting the Literary Zeitgeist of Hyde Park’s Indie Book Scene

    “A good bookstore sells books, but its primary product, if you will, is the browsing experience…One of the great benefits of the act of browsing is the rumination it evokes.”Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores

    If there is a neighborhood in Chicago that reaches for the pinnacle of a book lover’s nirvana, it has to be Hyde Park. Surrounding the University of Chicago and situated just south of the Loop, this epicenter of learning, education, and literature is a bibliophile’s wonderland of Indie bookstores. 

    Source: schoolstreetposters.com

    However, just when it felt like the dust had settled from years of fighting off the tentacles of Amazon’s loss-leading blitzkrieg on bookstores, a new threat has set up shop right in Hyde Park’s very midst. This time it’s not a digital menace, but instead a big-box goliath — Barnes & Noble.

    Yes, in a free market, competition is supposed to benefit the consumer. But, and this is a big but, at what cost? Price is not and should never be the sole factor, especially in the book realm. What about the value of the experience? What about service? What about variety? What about the discovery of the unexpected? What about home-grown? What about locally owned and operated? What about sanctuary-like ambiance? What about a delicate mix of existing independent bookstores who live and operate as a cohesive draw to Hyde Park?

    “The value is, and always has been, at least in the good and serious bookstores, in the experience of being among books–an experience afforded to anyone who enters the space with curiosity and time. And the yield is discovery, not of what we think we know we want, but of that which we have yet to encounter.” Source: Jeff Deutsch, “In Praise of Good Bookstores

    Typically, a big-box store will not draw people from far outside the local vicinity when it has dozens of locations spread all over Chicagoland (21 at last count).  Meanwhile, a unique and varied collection of Indie bookstores can and will do just that (draw customers from further afield) because of the collective experience they offer — and that sublimely satisfying pastime known as “browsing” where one can wander, wonder, discover, ponder, and partake without interruption. Such a unique labor of love [browsing] can never be truly replicated in a big box. Imitated maybe. Replicated, never.

    “Big-name box bookstores have installed cafes and armchairs precisely because people like to hang out around books. Next time you’re in one of those cavernous megasellers, see for yourself how they’ve worked yo create ambiance. Look at the shelf placement, how they’ve been arranged to mark off cozy little reading nooks. Somebody’s tried very hard to make you forget you’re in a warehouse.” Source: Wendy Welch, “The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap”

    University of Chicago in the heart of Hyde Park – Source: pme.uchicago.edu

    Call & Response, 57th Street, Powell’s, Seminary Co-op, University of Chicago Bookstore, and Build Coffee & Books all combine to fulfill a literarian’s needs in this special corner of the Windy City.  Why, other than to disrupt the curated zeitgeist of Hyde Park, does B &N really need to be there?

    Hopefully, over time B &N will find itself out of place in Hyde Park and move on to greener pastures elsewhere. And if they do hang around for longer, it’s as a cohort versus a predator.

    My guess is the good people who shop the existing Indie bookstores in and around Hyde Park will continue their time-honored tradition of supporting the stores that germinated in and around Hyde Park and avoid the intruder. May it be so.

    In the interim, either the individual store websites or bookshop.org offer easy access for all of us who cannot be physically in Chicago on a regular basis to assist the Indie bookstores in Hyde Park. All of them, except the campus bookstore have a presence on the bookshop.org site (57th Street through Seminary Co-op).

    Peace, happy reading, and great browsing!

    “Every great bookstore allows the reader to get lost in it.” – Source: Jeff Deutsch, I”n Praise of Good Bookstores

    #57thStreetBooks #books #bookstores #browsing #BuildCoffeeBooks #CallResponseBooks #Chicago #competition #history #HydePark #indie #literature #opinion #pondering #PowellSBooks #reading #retail #rumination #SeminaryCoOpBooks

  33. 🎺 Oh no! #FFmpeg flexes its #DMCA muscles on GitHub while users are left battling the dark age of JavaScript-less #browsing. 😂 Meanwhile, X Corp's Help Center suggests sacrificing #privacy for a smoother ride—because who needs privacy anyway? 🙈
    twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004 #JavaScript #XCorp #HackerNews #ngated

  34. 🎺 Oh no! #FFmpeg flexes its #DMCA muscles on GitHub while users are left battling the dark age of JavaScript-less #browsing. 😂 Meanwhile, X Corp's Help Center suggests sacrificing #privacy for a smoother ride—because who needs privacy anyway? 🙈
    twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004 #JavaScript #XCorp #HackerNews #ngated

  35. "I stopped using " #Incognito Mode" for #privacy after learning about #fingerprinting"

    #Incognitomode is one of the biggest privacy misnomers. The name is designed to make you feel like you're protected #online, that what you're #browsing is #anonymous and hidden away from the world.

    But in reality, #privatebrowsing isn't private, and that needs to be addressed.

    makeuseof.com/why-fingerprinti

  36. Nachdem ich viele Jahre Javascript standardmäßig im Fennec abgeschaltet habe und jedes einzelne Script manuell zulasse, habe ich den Eindruck, dass viele Seitenbetreiber sich gar keine Mühe mehr geben, sauber in HTML zu schreiben. Wie viele externe Scripte teilweise benötigt werden, ist völlig irre. Ich lasse gerne das seiteneigene Script zu, aber das macht manchmal nur 5% aller Scripte aus. Sobald man eines zulässt, werden dadurch fünf weitere externe geladen.

    #Javascript #html #browsing