#duckduckgo — Public Fediverse posts
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Mais quel est le fuck, vraiment ?! #DuckDuckGo #Bullshit
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@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.
Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.
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@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.
Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.
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@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.
Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.
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@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.
Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.
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@sewblue maybe Duck Duck Go is your problem.
Results from <https://www.google.com/search?q=gutters+Brighton&udm=14> in a private browsing window look good to me. I clicked through to more than five of the top results.
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ちなみにアヒル隊長🪿で有名な #DuckDuckGo も Ecosia よりちょっ多いくらいであんまり検索結果にはヒットしてこなかった
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GOODBYE MY LOVER
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
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So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
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I’ve been addicted to you
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Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for meJoined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.
Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.
How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
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The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=
Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?
Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.
🎶🎶🎶
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb
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GOODBYE MY LOVER
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for meJoined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.
Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.
How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
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The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=
Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?
Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.
🎶🎶🎶
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb
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GOODBYE MY LOVER
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for meJoined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.
Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.
How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=
Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?
Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.
🎶🎶🎶
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb
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GOODBYE MY LOVER
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for meJoined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.
Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.
How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=
Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?
Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.
🎶🎶🎶
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb
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GOODBYE MY LOVER
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
…
So I took what’s mine by eternal right
Took your soul out into the night
…
I’ve been addicted to you
…
Goodbye my lover
Goodbye my friend
You have been the one
You have been the one for meJoined on December 2006. Left on July 2026. “It’s been 20 years and I still remember” the small number of friends, the activity feed and the field “Relationship Status”. Was “The Facebook” a ship of dreams? Well, many people found their significant other there.
Facebook was the one for me – I never got that much into the Instagram, Twitter or Tik-Tok. Most of all, I was falling in and out of love there, good memories.
How did we get here? Today I read in the DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly newsletter:
Meta agreed to pay up to $17.1 billion over the next decade to settle a landmark child safety lawsuit brought by 29 state attorneys general; it’s now the largest state consumer-protection settlement outside of the tobacco settlements of the 1990s. The suit alleged Meta intentionally designed Instagram with addictive features that harmed younger users, while misleading the public about the platform’s safety.
…
The settlement is part of a growing wave of Big Tech accountability: in the past four years alone, Meta, Google, and TikTok have collectively paid billions to settle privacy and child safety cases.I hope people understand that there are no money in the world that could “pay” the karma. This is pretty serious. Since this “children vs. social” topic is flying around, I was a bit envy and was asking myself – who thought about the children who were online back in the 90s? WHO was not online back then and WHO was? Technology is not bad, screens are not bad, but there could be bad and greedy (for money and data) people crafting the tools and the content. I do even feel ashamed that I am part of this industry. A technical achievement, becomes an advertising agency… Complete Tragedy! Could I take some responsibility and say, “Please, accept our apologies for all the evil.” This happened, because there was a sentence “Don’t be evil!” which even the little children know from the stove that it means “BE evil!”. [=
Since I stopped scrolling in Facebook, I feel like I woke up. Got back to the retro of Internetting. Started some new personal projects, including my Omnia which I proudly decided to host at Vivaldi.net. However, today I received a thought – did I left Facebook by choice or Facebook pushed me away? After everything it knows about me… 20 years. Am I sad as a user or disappointed as an artechie woman?
Sorry and goodbye, bloody Alg. It’s over. No more trials. Testing complete. Project dismissed.
🎶🎶🎶
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gxycjJNMgmAyfzUXBN80P?si=f0142a649fbb4bdb
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I managed to close 3 of 1583 open DuckDuckGo pages.
C'mon. That's pretty good.
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#LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 29, 2026
Five highlights from this week: #DuckDuckGo Survey Reveals Just How Personal #AI Conversations Have Become; What Every Search Engine Really Knows About You; Inside the Warehouse Where #Amazon Scans and Destroys Books for AI Training; #Expired credit cards revived by researchers to make unauthorized payments; and #Microsoft365 Teams now lets admins block external #bots from meetings.
Posted in: AI, Big Data, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Search Strategies
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Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.
In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month
Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.
Solution: add " -ai" to your query.
E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox)
Type this into your Firefox address bar:
b 2026 sep -ai
or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai
and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.
Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024:
* Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026.
* Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026
* 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th).
* < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month
* [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week
Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.
#search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month
#CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia.
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Warum werden bei alternativen #Suchmaschinen eigentlich meistens #ecosia oder #duckduckgo genannt?
Meines Wissens hat #Startpage die besten Datenschutzbedingungen? Davon hört man aber sehr selten. Weder hier und noch weniger in der Öffentlichkeit.
Ich nutze es schon als es noch Ixquick hieß.https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startpage
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosia#
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I'd like to get my hands on a pair of #duckDuckGo Normal F****** Glasses, but they're #soldOut...
Anybody got any tips/leads for me?
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Wow I never thought I'd be interested about smart glasses to be honest, but this makes me VERY interested! 😎
#duckduckgo #ddg #smartglasses #google #degoogle #technology #tech #newtech #privacy #technews #googleglasses #googleglass #surveillance #telemetry #dataprivacy #techprivacy #funny #satire
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Well, I felt rather badly when I got a post in my stream from the official Fediverse account for dillo.
You see, I hadn't included it in my recent HowTo, a cookbook style tutorial on Browsers in Linux, or rather, how to install a boatload of them, and all kinds of them. I even went so far to include one produced and maintained by a company that I literally loathe (and even taught their official MCSE curriculum for them starting back in the mid 90's)...
But I left out dillo. I was tired, and truth be told, it really isn't easy authoring these types of technical publications - you literally need to go through each item on a VM you spin up and take it step by step to make sure that when a neophyte comes around and wants ot simply copypasta your instructions - they can do that, and it will work.
So anyway, the devs over at the dillo project posted on the Fediverse and I immediately was guilt-ridden for not including them. So I went and started to edit my earlier HowTo; I came out about 5k characters over count (and I think my server's already configured for 12K chars).
Anyway, long story short, here's one of my latest contributions to the #FOSS community, specifically, one that's published in the #Fediverse first and foremost. It includes almost every browser you've probably ever used, and certainly, many you probably haven't.
I had to Quote-Post my original so it's kinda kewl with an entry point starting with dillo. I think that's pretty awesome, and it quotes the original (part I if you will) that starts with Vivaldi.
I don't usually ask, but especially with respect to this HowTo/Tutorial, the more people that boost it, the further it will reach, and the more people it can benefit. Give it a gander and if you think others will find portions of it advantageous... well, feel free to boost it.
So without further ado, Here's the link to the Linux Browser HowTo
I hope you find it useful, and Enjoy! 🤗
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Browsers #dillo #Microsoft_Edge #Firefox #Vivaldi #Brave_Browser #DuckDuckGo #Chromium #Opera #Chawan #Lagrange #Tor #Lynx #Elinks #Links #Nyxt #Epiphany #Falkon #Konqueror
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And now for dillo
## dillo browser (the honorable mention):
Now, this tutorial wouldn't be complete without one of the most determined browser projects of all to be included. Unfortunately for the user (and by user I mean the common, everyday n00b, joeuser), very little effort has been put into a one & done download/install procedure.
To be honest, dillo is a bit of a pain in the butt, because even though a lot of effort has been put into rescue of the intellectual property after the main author of the engine passed away and the original domain registration expired (to be picked up by a cybersquatter), rebuilding the forward facing public assets still leaves much to be desired for a simple joeuser - the folks we are all trying to ultimately serve and make things simple.
For example, Where you would almost universally expect to see a "Download dillo" link or button, you will indeed find a link, but it leads to their cgit repo. Even junior devs cringe when they first come across cgit, even though it really is arguably far superior to GitHub style facilities like Gitea, Forgejo (Codeberg), and SourceHut.
Although it's really only a matter of appearance, cgit was written by Jason A. Donenfeld, who also created Wireguard and Pass - the standard UNIX password manager, popular on Androids too (via F-Droid, requires installing OpenKeyChain too on Android).
But back to #dillo! You may be wondering why I placed it so far down the list, and the reason is twofold:
1. ) I brainfarted. Yup, I was really tired and literally forgot when initially publishing this first edition of the Browsers on Linux HowTo, and for that, especially to the dillo dev team, I apologize.
2. ) It may seem a bit complicated - but I assure you it is not, especially when compared to the #Tor_Browser, which immediately precedes the instructions for installing dillo.I know that a lot of folks went through and endured the process of installing the Tor Browser, because it's such a popular utility in today's world, and since I'm figuring that you got through that okay, we can now turn our attention to dillo, without all of the hunting around on various git repo servers out there and web pages - just the bare bones simple cut and paste for you here...
So let's get to it, shall we?
NOTE: You should know by now that commands prefaced with
~$are to be administered by you, the regular, unpriviliged user account; while commands prefaced with~#mean that those commands are issued by "root". You have a choice in your terminal. The first is just to prepend the root commands withsudo, while the other option is to issuesu -to root, then go into the directory the user was in and issue those commands. You may find it easier to just open a fresh tab in your terminal app so you have one user ($) shell and then in the other tab or window you have the root user's (#) shell.The first thing we need to do is make sure that we have resolved all dependencies (prerequisites) for compiling dillo. We do that as root (or via sudo as I just mentioned above) like so:
~# apt install gcc g++ git git-all autoconf automake make zlib1g-dev libfltk1.3-dev libssl-dev libc6-dev libpng-dev libjpeg-dev libwebp-dev libbrotli-devDon't worry if some, or even most or all of those packages aren't installed, because some, many, or all of them may already be installed on your system, and invoking the install won't overwrite anything already installed.
Next, let's git (pundit there), er... get the source for dillo, and yes, we're going to use git. A mention now that doing it this way means that in the future your updates will be relatively simple and brainless. More on that later. We'll start by creating a directory (folder) to work from, a place where you can use in the future that doesn't clutter up your home directory with needless entries; then we'll download the source code, build it locally, and install it...
All you have to do is cut and paste each line, one by one, and wait for each step to finish before pasting the next line into your terminal.
~$ cd; mkdir -pv dev; cd dev ~$ git clone https://git.dillo-browser.org/dillo ~$ cd dillo ~$ ./autogen.sh ~$ mkdir build ~$ cd build ~$ ../configure --prefix=/usr/local ~$ make ~$ sudo make install root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# make installThat's it! dillo has been installed!
Now, and because we're at the very end. I want to explain the $ and # stuff so it's clear. Notice that the dillo installation steps is the only place in this HowTo that I included a
sudocommand. The reason is that I believe that in most cases, sudo is a bad way to administer a machine. In classic, traditional UNIX administration, yousuto root (the Superuser), do what you need to with thos elevated privs and then exit out of the root shell and back to your unprivileged user account.So
~#is merely a shorthand in most Bash shells. typically, you're going to see something likeusername@hostname:/path/to/directory$for a non-priviliged user, or for root, it will generally read asroot@hostname:/path/to/directory#Generally speaking when you issue a command from a particular directory as a non-privileged user, followed by a command by the superuser (root), you probably want to be in that same directory. So the final command above which was
make install, would have been performed by the non-privileged user ($) using the sudo utility (or, doas on some OSes) or as root - but as root, you would have wanted to be in that same directory to run themakecommand to install the compiled binary in /usr/local on your machine. This is what it would look like had you decided (I recommend this practice in most cases) to 'su -' to root instead of using sudo:joeuser@mylaptop:~/dev/dillo/build$ su - root@mylaptop:~# cd /home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# make install root@mylaptop:/home/joeuser/dev/dillo/build# exit joeuser@mylaptop:~/dev/dillo/build$ cd joeuser@mylaptop:~$ which dillo /usr/local/bin/dillo joeuser@mylaptop:~$ dillo &If you followed along with that last block of code, you'll see that we asked where our program (dillo) is, by using the
whichcommand. It told us that it's located/user/local/bin/dillo, in our default "path", so all we need to do (from anywhere) is just type indillo &- the ampersand will release our shell so the process can run in the background. Just hit your "return" or "enter" key and you'll get your prompt back.Have fun running dillo!
Well, I went into a lot of explantions that normally aren't covered, because basic navigation and what your prompts are going to look like are just assumed in most HowTo's and Tutorials, including mine. But it should be covered somewhere and this was a logical place.
There is just one more (optional) task to complete. Adding dillo to your menu panel - I'm going to leave that task up to you, it's worth learning, and honestly, I don't want to have to cover how to do this in KDE Plasma, Xfce, GNOME, Cinnamon, Mate, etc.... you get the idea; I have no idea what desktop environment you're running but it's an excercise that is worthwhile so you can configure your menus and desktop anyway, so do give it a go :)
There's really just one last thing folks....
Here's just a taste of what to expect with future updates to this HowTO:
~# sqg -p dillo && sbopkg -i dillo.sqf"What?" You say? Yup! That's Slackware. Installing pretty much every single Browser in this article is as simple as doing a copypasta of that one liner with sbopkg...
But you'll have to wait for all of that funstuff :p
And remember: You can haz #Cheezburgerz! 🍔🍟
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #browsers #dillo #Microsoft_Edge #Firefox #Vivaldi #Brave_Browser #DuckDuckGo #Chromium #Opera #Chawan #Lagrange #Tor #Lynx #Elinks #Links #Nyxt #Epiphany #Falcon #Konqueror
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RE: https://public.mitra.social/objects/019f49aa-b5c6-7372-b92d-68821dcad285
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HowTo: INSTALLING Browsers in Linux
Here we're going to cover the installation steps of Browsers in Linux - specifically, Debian GNU/Linux.
We're covering the procedural steps for this in Debian Testing (Forkey), which is already beginning the gleanings of what will become Debian 14. At the time of writing,the current kernel version is 7.0.13+deb14-amd64.
Daily drivers will likely be along the lines of Vivaldi, Firefox, Lagrange, and Brave Browser, and in no particular order. Any others will be mostly for particular reasons like, testing, curiosity, Etc., but some specialized products like the Tor browser, which focus on privacy are also covered. This list is by no means complete, but there's a bunch of them we cover, so let's jump right in!
I can haz #Cheezburgerz? 🍔 🍟
Well, let's see... First up is the first rate and fully featured Vivaldi, built on top of the open source Chromium, as are so many others in this list.
- Vivaldi
Manual setup of the Vivaldi Linux repos - According to their website, "you no longer need to do this. After downloading a Linux package and installing it our Linux update repositories will be configured automatically for you to receive updates."
That's awfully nice, so visit the download page above and get the .deb package:
~# mkdir -pv /usr/local/packages/vivaldi; cd /usr/local/packages/vivaldi ~# wget https://downloads.vivaldi.com/stable/vivaldi-stable_8.1.4087.48-1_amd64.deb ~# apt install ./vivaldi*.deb- That's it! You're ready to go now.
Next up...
- Firefox
~# apt update && apt install firefox
- Brave Browser~# apt install curl ~# curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg ~# curl -fsSLo /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.sources https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser.sources ~# apt update && apt install brave-browser- DuckDuckGo (on Android - There's no Linux port)
- Edge (For the sake of completeness in testing? For the love of God, WHY???)~# mkdir -pv /usr/local/packages/edge; cd /usr/local/packages/edge # download Edge from the link above into this directory ~# apt install -y ./microsoft-edge-stable_147.0.3912.98-1_amd64.deb # or whatever version you downloaded.- Lagrange
~$ apt update && apt install flatpak ~$ flatpak install flathub fi.skyjake.Lagrange- Chromium
~# apt update && apt install chromium- Opera
~# mkdir -pv /usr/local/packages/opera; cd /usr/local/packages/opera # Download from the link above, for example: ~# wget https://download3.operacdn.com/ftp/pub/opera/desktop/131.0.5877.5/linux/opera-stable_131.0.5877.5_amd64.deb ~# apt install -y ./opera-stable_131.0.5877.5_amd64.debGood Ole Lynx, Elinks, and Links. One should not be without at least a couple of these. you can surf HTTP, Gopher, and remain in a character based environment with Lynx, so the utility of testing is available quickly at your fingertips. Also included w3m.
~# apt install -y elinks elinks-data elinks-doc links links2 lynx lynx-common w3m w3m-imgNyxt: For a more elegant take on the mostly character/CLI based options above you might wish to have this browser in your toolchest. Installing is simple as a FlatPak.
~$ flatpak install flathub engineer.atlas.NyxtGNOME Web - aka: Epiphany. Yes, this is the decendent of Galeon, the legacy of which began in 2000. Much of Galeons features were ported to Epiphany, which for whatever reason, is having an existential moment with respect to its name - Officially? It's now GNOME Web, but everywhere it says that, they also include the Epiphany name just so there's no confusion. Huh?
~# apt install epiphany-browser epiphany-browser-dataIf you must call it "Web", that's fine, but even if you want to install it as a FlatPak you're going to be invoking Ephiphany, and that's what everyone still calls it anyway:
~$ flatpak install flathub org.gnome.EpiphanyFalkon. Formerly QupZilla, this browser received its new name in 2017 when it was picked up by KDE. With a simple, but modern, themable interface affording the user options resembling that of Firefox, Chrome, Windows, and Mac, it also comes bundled with AdBlock installed and enabled. There are several other features and extensions available including a PDF reader, GreaseMonkey,Tab extensions, Etc., which are available via the KDE store rather than Chrome or Firefox add-on marketplace.
~# apt install falkonYou can also install via Flathub:
~$ flatpak install flathub org.kde.falkonKonqueror - The longtime File and Web Browser by KDE. It's probably already installed by default if you're running KDE, but if not here you go:
~# apt install konqueror konqueror-data konqueror-doc libkf6konq7 libkf6konqsettings7And now for something truly special...
~# mkdir -pv /usr/local/packages/chawan; cd /usr/local/packages/chawan ~# wget https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/refs/download/v0.3.3/chawan-0-3-3-amd64.deb ~# apt update && apt install ./chawan-0-3-3-amd64.debAlternatively:
~# mkdir -pv /usr/local/src/chawan; cd /usr/local/src/chawan /usr/local/src/chawan# wget https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/refs/download/v0.3.3/chawan-0-3-3-linux-amd64.tar.xz /usr/local/src/chawan# tar xvf chawan-0-3-3-linux-amd64.tar.xz /usr/local/src/chawan# cd chawan-0-3-3-linux-amd64/ /usr/local/src/chawan/chawan-0-3-3-linux-amd64# make installyou can start with
~$ mancha chaDESCRIPTION
Chawan is a text-mode browser. It can be used as a pager, or as a
web/(S)FTP/gopher/gemini/file browser. It understands HTML and CSS, and
when enabled by the user, can also execute JavaScript and display images
(on terminals supporting Sixel or the Kitty image protocol.)Chawan can also be used as a general text-based document viewer as de‐ scribed in cha-mailcap(5), or as a hyperlinked man page viewer using mancha(1).## TorBrowser
This one's a bit more of a chunk to bite into, only because if you're going to endeavor for such security, then you want to make sure to cross all the t's and dot all of the i's.
Import the Tor Browser Developers signing key
(0xEF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290)
gpg --auto-key-locate nodefault,wkd --locate-keys [email protected]Your output should look something like:
gpg: key 4E2C6E8793298290: public key "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <[email protected]>" imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 EF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290 uid [ unknown] Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <[email protected]>Now that you've imported the key, you can save it to a file, identifying it by the fingerprint above:
~$ mkdir -pv ~/packages/tor; cd ~/packages/tor ~/packages/tor$ gpg --output ./tor.keyring --export 0xEF6E286DDA85EA2A4BA7DE684E2C6E8793298290From the Tor Project's download page HERE, download the .asc OpenPGP signature file and the TorBrowser package tarball:
~/packages/tor$ wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/15.0.11/tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.11.tar.xz.asc ~/packages/tor$ wget https://www.torproject.org/dist/torbrowser/15.0.11/tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.11.tar.xzNOTE: At the time of writing, these were the current files downloaded, the filenames will almost certainly have changed by the time you download them, so the tarball and signature file will have different names - adjust accordingly. We'll continue using those filenames below.
Now we verify the veracity of the package's tarball using the .asc signature file like so:
~/packages/tor$ gpgv --keyring ./tor.keyring ~/packages/tor/tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.11.tar.xz.asc ~/packages/tor/tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.11.tar.xzYour output should confirm a "Good signature":
gpgv: Signature made Tue 28 Apr 2026 02:01:23 AM PDT gpgv: using RSA key CAAE408AEBE2288E96FC5D5E157432CF78A65729 gpgv: Good signature from "Tor Browser Developers (signing key) <[email protected]>"Now we explode the archive:
~/packages/tor$ tar xvf tor-browser-linux-x86_64-15.0.11.tar.xzLet's give it a go, shall we?
~/packages/tor$ cd tor-browser ~/packages/tor/tor-browser$ ./start-tor-browser.desktop --register-app Tor Browser has been registered as a desktop app for this user in ~/.local/share/applications/You'll notice that the permissions of ./start-tor-browser.desktop are set to 700 - It has only been installed for you and you alone. I would recommend that everyone install their own but if that seemed like too much hassle for you to begin with, we can just install it system-wide for everyone, with the following two commands:
~# apt update ~# apt install -y torbrowser-launcher## Summary, and why
I know I know, I always seem to put the tl;dr's at the very end, but that's only because it humors me :p In this case, however, it really is best if the Tor Browser is installed individually for each and every user account that is going to use it.
Why do I usually put the tl;dr's at the very end of my articles? Because I've observed that the impatient among us are inclined to break something anyway for lack of patience and understanding, and if you really think about it, we've learned a lot today, going over each step and most of the time, why we did it that way.
Even so, when you get to the end there's this nice fluffy and quick way to accomplish your task quickly, and you can do it a hundred times now because you understand the whole thing. On the other hand, the people who just want the tl;dr are typically one of two types of folks - they've got a great handle on things and only need just bare syntax, or.... they're the kind of folks who, when assigned a book to read, start by reading the last couple of pages, then think they're ready for the book report.
For that last group of people, isn't putting the tl;dr at the very end where they really expect to find it anyway?
## Parting Thoughts
Not all of the products that we've covered the installation for today are FOSS. Many aren't even Open Source. We're trying to be complete with all of the various applications in the browser spectrum that people may wish to use - for even the most obscure above, tens of thousands of people use it as their daily driver, or as a particular tool for a job that they perform every day.
I'm going to explain why I decided to include one browser in particular. Years ago...
Microsoft's current version for Windows Internet Exploder was either 3.01b or 3.02b at the time, and this was the only time that I've ever seen this - so I actually have a copy of this browser. In my wanderings across this planet I've seen people complain over the years about there not being any Internet Explorer for Linux, and indeed, this is the case. In fact, in my experience, I've never seen a port of Internet Explorer for any of the Unices (Apple products excepted), until one day when I was installing a Sun Enterprise server running Solaris. I just happened to notice when looking through the files that I saw the rarest of all creatures...
A lone Internet Exploder, version 3.02b (or maybe 3.01b) for Solaris! For Solaris? Why? No, not really why? but given the proof that they could have a port for Linux at anytime and haven't, yet they cozy up to Sun Microsystems and offer a port of Explorer that is supported on Solaris. WoW!
I quickly fell into a state of perplexity. Why Solaris and no one else? Why not Linux? Why not AIX or HP-UX? Why bother at all if they're not going to make it available for Linux and the BSDs too, and I thought long and hard about this.
I still do, and I have a lot of answers. None of which are truly acceptable. Yes, Ballmer called Linux a cancer, now they hug it like a redwood tree. But think of what could have been.
So... Why did I include Microsoft Edge here in this article?
I was being charitable, as I continue looking down my nose at Redmond, dismissively, disparagingly, with just a tinge of a smile containing just a hint of my condescension.
I'll probably continue to add a browser package here and there to this article when I feel it's warranted. There are a lot, and this only covers the most popular and it was good to get these out of the way so perhaps I can tend to the more obscure or peculiar at some other point in time.
I hope that helps!
#tallship #FOSS #browsers #Microsoft_Edge #Firefox #Vivaldi #Brave_Browser #DuckDuckGo #Chromium #Opera #Chawan #Lagrange #Tor #Lynx #Elinks #Links #Nyxt #Epiphany #Falcon #Konqueror #privacy
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TechSpot: Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes. “The latest version of Canada’s Bill C-22 would require digital services such as internet service providers, messaging platforms, email providers, and potentially hardware companies to retain up to one year of user metadata. In addition, tech companies would have to implement mechanisms that […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/06/08/techspot-signal-duckduckgo-and-nordvpn-threaten-to-exit-canada-if-metadata-surveillance-law-passes/ -
Back in the day, we had #deleteFacebook, #deleteMeta, #deleteWhatsApp, and so on.
Some people heeded the call for a while, only to quietly return to Big Tech later on.
Now, many have been jolted awake by our dependence on Big Tech, and another #quitday and other variations are gaining momentum.
Personally, I started that journey years ago.
- From Gmail to #ProtonMail and #Tuta
- From Google to #Searx #Startpage #DuckDuckGo
- From Chrome to #Brave #Mulvad and #LibreWolf
- From MS Office to #LibreOffice
- From Google Drive to #NextCloud and #Synology
- From Facebook to #MeWe and #Mastodon
- From Windows to #Linux
- From WhatsApp to #Threema #Signal #Jami and #Matrix #Element
- From Zoom to #Jitsi and #ProtonMeet
- From Google Translate to #DeeplI’m sure I’m forgetting a few, but there’s a European and open-source alternative for every American Big Tech and closed-source application.
What I’ve noticed is that many people are afraid of what they don’t know and therefore don’t dare to make the switch (completely).
(Some people just don’t give a damn and convenience is all that matters)Any fear is unfounded, and if all of us switches en masse, Big Tech’s power will be quickly broken, and the development of alternatives will proceed much more smoothly and quickly.
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Vroeger hadden we #deleteFacebook #deleteMeta #deleteWhatsApp en noem maar op.
Sommigen gaven daar even gehoor aan om later toch stilletjes terug te keren naar Big Tec.
Nu werden velen even wakker geschud door onze afhankelijkheid van Amerikaanse Big Tec en komt er weer een #doeidag en andere varianten op gang.
Persoonlijk ben ik die reis al jaren geleden begonnen.
- Van Gmail naar #ProtonMail en #Tuta
- Van Google naar #Searx #Startpage #DuckDuckGo
- Van chrome naar #Brave #Mulvad en #LibreWolf
- Van MS Office naar #LibreOffice
- Van Google Drive naar #NextCloud en #Synology
- Van Facebook naar #MeWe en #Mastodon
- Van Windows naar #Linux
- Van Whatsapp naar #Threema #Signal #Jami en #Matrix #Element
- Van Zoom naar #Jitsi en #ProtonMeet
- Van Google Translate naar #DeeplIk vergeet er vast nog een paar, maar er is voor elke Amerikaanse en Closed Source toepassing wel een Europees en Open Source alternatief.
Wat ik merk is dat veel mensen bang zijn voor dat wat ze niet kennen en daarom niet (geheel) durven over te stappen.
(sommigen interesseerd het gewoon geen reet en is gemak het enige dat telt)Eventuele angst is ongegrond en als we met heel Europa massaal overstappen is de macht van Big Tec snel gebroken en verloopt de ontwikkeling van alternatieven veel soepeler en sneller.
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I may have to switch away from the #DuckDuckGo browser, to @Vivaldi, at least for some sites.
It's not even for a security or privacy reason. Some sites do not consider "dark mode" users when they're being designed. Image backgrounds in some cases make "dark mode" mean "invisible text mode".
DDG doesn't have, or at least not obviously, a quick on/off per site. But it's built in with #Vivaldi.
For transparency : you can achieve this in #Midori with Dark Reader too.
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Probé #AdGuardDNS en Android y le encontré un error importante: al reiniciar el dispositivo, la aplicación (que funciona como una VPN local), no reconecta automáticamente, por lo que deja al usuario desprotegido. :mspoopflame: Mal ahí, che.
Volviendo a #AppTrackingProtection de #DuckDuckGo. :ddg:
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Probé #AdGuardDNS en Android y le encontré un error importante: al reiniciar el dispositivo, la aplicación (que funciona como una VPN local), no reconecta automáticamente, por lo que deja al usuario desprotegido. :mspoopflame: Mal ahí, che.
Volviendo a #AppTrackingProtection de #DuckDuckGo. :ddg:
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Probé #AdGuardDNS en Android y le encontré un error importante: al reiniciar el dispositivo, la aplicación (que funciona como una VPN local), no reconecta automáticamente, por lo que deja al usuario desprotegido. :mspoopflame: Mal ahí, che.
Volviendo a #AppTrackingProtection de #DuckDuckGo. :ddg:
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Probé #AdGuardDNS en Android y le encontré un error importante: al reiniciar el dispositivo, la aplicación (que funciona como una VPN local), no reconecta automáticamente, por lo que deja al usuario desprotegido. :mspoopflame: Mal ahí, che.
Volviendo a #AppTrackingProtection de #DuckDuckGo. :ddg:
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My top 5 #ChristmasSongs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5bKtRU0Q6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2jQmV53x0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-5ac51Dw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_kj60DIq2M
Btw. get #duckduckgo player to get around the annoying ads on f-ing #youtube and set your #VPN to the US. #FightFascists
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My top 5 #ChristmasSongs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5bKtRU0Q6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2jQmV53x0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-5ac51Dw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_kj60DIq2M
Btw. get #duckduckgo player to get around the annoying ads on f-ing #youtube and set your #VPN to the US. #FightFascists
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My top 5 #ChristmasSongs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5bKtRU0Q6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2jQmV53x0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-5ac51Dw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_kj60DIq2M
Btw. get #duckduckgo player to get around the annoying ads on f-ing #youtube and set your #VPN to the US. #FightFascists
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My top 5 #ChristmasSongs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5bKtRU0Q6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2jQmV53x0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VwP-5ac51Dw
https://youtube.com/watch?v=1D5PtyrewSs
https://youtube.com/watch?v=g_kj60DIq2M
Btw. get #duckduckgo player to get around the annoying ads on f-ing #youtube and set your #VPN to the US. #FightFascists
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📬 Saubere Google-Suche ohne KI – diese Methoden funktionieren zuverlässig
#Internet #KünstlicheIntelligenz #duckduckgo #KIAntwort #KIBlock #MullvadLeta #SearXNG #Tampermonkey #TenBlueLinks https://sc.tarnkappe.info/635fb6 -
[Перевод] Я больше не доверяю Google Search, но каковы альтернативы?
Довольно актуальная тема, согласитесь? Ощущение, что разные приложения, которым ты когда-то доверял, просто перестали адекватно работать. Примером того может быть ваш Nest Hub Max, который способен ответить разве что на самые базовые запросы , хоть и использует передовую модель Gemini от Google. Или же различные социальные сети типа Instagram, Facebook и Twitter — которые раньше заполняли вашу ленту постами друзей и близких, а теперь впихивают в неё «рекомендации», рекламу и сгенерированный ИИ шлак. Сложно сказать, стал ли причиной этого ощущения главный продукт Google. Обсуждения на тему ухудшения их поисковой системы звучат по всему интернету — даже сейчас вы тому свидетель — но насколько серьёзны все эти претензии? Достаточно ли их, чтобы вынудить человека перейти на другую платформу? Готов с уверенностью сказать, что да. Google Search стал настолько ужасен, настолько засорился неточной информацией и стал выдавать ошибочные результаты, что доверять ему в качестве основного механизма поиска я больше не могу.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/897050/
#ruvds_перевод #google #google_search #kagi #bing #gemini #ии #reddit #поисковые_сервисы #duckduckgo
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Critique de l’offre d’accès à des SIAG sur Duck Duck Go
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/duckduckgo-offers-anonymous-access-to-ai-chatbots-through-new-service/
#DuckDuckGo #IA #SIAG #générative #technologie #Internet -
as a kindness to #DuckDuckGo supporters, and those who value #Internet #Privacy, please remove 'google it' from your lexicon.
💻 🔍 👁️🗨️ 🥸
#PSA #SocialService #Google #Capitalism #Monopoly #InternetPrivacy #GDPR #SearchEngine #Search
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@berniethewordsmith @pluralistic curious... the parent link renders as just a black page in #DuckDuckGo Browser, but works fine on #Vanadium and #IceRaven browsers 🙄
Then again, maybe it just wants to save me from having to see bright green text on a black background 😉
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@berniethewordsmith @pluralistic curious... the parent link renders as just a black page in #DuckDuckGo Browser, but works fine on #Vanadium and #IceRaven browsers 🙄
Then again, maybe it just wants to save me from having to see bright green text on a black background 😉
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@berniethewordsmith @pluralistic curious... the parent link renders as just a black page in #DuckDuckGo Browser, but works fine on #Vanadium and #IceRaven browsers 🙄
Then again, maybe it just wants to save me from having to see bright green text on a black background 😉
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@berniethewordsmith @pluralistic curious... the parent link renders as just a black page in #DuckDuckGo Browser, but works fine on #Vanadium and #IceRaven browsers 🙄
Then again, maybe it just wants to save me from having to see bright green text on a black background 😉