Anonym Private Audiences is currently in closed beta, supporting early-use cases where privacy matters most.

Wow that really is private! So private we can’t even see what it’s up to.

Differential “privacy,” based on what I’ve learned, seems to be a joke. The only thing it does effectively is hide the fact you’ve disabled it, if you choose to disable it. But if other people disable it, it becomes easier to identify you. The best move is to not participate, which should encourage other people to also not participate…

And if you’re one of the unlucky few people still using it, its developers basically need to choose where on a sliding scale from “anonymous” to “useful” they want to start collecting your data. And there is every prerogative for them to push towards “useful” and away from “anonymous.”

It operates separately, and is not integrated with, our flagship Firefox browser.

Doubt…

Well, they do promise it’s secure! Which means… Nothing, absolutely nothing in terms of privacy.

How much useless space can a program take up before we are allowed to complain about it

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It won’t hurt to try disabling both of them! Watch for non-functional notifications, make sure the most crucial apps in your arsenal work, see what happens.

You might want to avoid “total anything death” phrases

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tnd-kill-behead-roundhouse

You wouldn’t even guess this would be on the Keet homepage, but the developers can’t help themselves. They just see dollar signs.

As your app grows, Holepunch lets you evolve into a business without compromises. With Bitcoin Lightning and USDt micropayments built-in, it’s easy to implement and use powerful paid features in apps. Peers control their own data, including how it’s bought and sold.

“Peers control their own data”

I really hate how “sovereignty” has become a dogwhistle for “sell your data to us.” And they make it as easy as possible to sell yourself out, irreversibly, for mere pennies. Maybe that’s the fantasy: since “code is law” in Cryptoland, get somebody to sign over their identity with code.

Either is pretty good. If you’re looking for more diverse options I’d recommend 4get or a half decent Whoogle or SearxNG instance.

But you’re right that you do have to trust the person or group running it, and I think Mullvad has the upper hand there. It’s big enough to attract a crowd, and its caching means the results are extra generic too.

If you’re looking just for Google results, Startpage is… Fine, I think.

Running a VPN makes any of these options much better.

By all accounts, this sucks.

I tried the link preview feature on a link to the English Wikipedia article about Touhou Project, and the LLM’s key points are just hilariously bad. For some reason it’s focusing too much on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch (which the LLM “thinks” were both released on August 15, 1997). I have a screenshot 6 days ago when it wasn’t a Firefox Labs feature yet in my Misskey:

https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/a6d86p8n26

Tried it today in an updated Nightly and the key points are still the same lol.

Source

Recently, they made a blog post triumphantly proclaiming creating two divisions for AI. To me, that sounds like two divisions that are about to get laid off.

Qwant doesn’t prioritize privacy very well, besides leaning on its European-ness. Their privacy policy does not engender trust with me.

https://lemm.ee/comment/19796261

But as soon as you do Proton Mail + VPN, you then go with Proton Unlimited and that is what makes the most sense financially.

That’s how they get you! ;)

Mail and VPN are something I would never want to cross associate, though. After all, any mail provider can see the full contents of any unencrypted email at some point (including Proton), and any VPN provider can see as much as your ISP used to see about your internet activity.

I’m of two minds of this. On one hand, like you said, all your searches will still track back to your IP address.

But on the other hand, if it’s a pseudonymous IP address, you might end up giving out less information then if you contacted the search instances directly. You don’t have to worry about scraping away cookies or using a specific browser or always being connected to a VPN. In essence, the self-hosted instance is your “VPN” for searches.

It would be nice if you could get your friends to also use your instance, but if not, I think a self-hosted instance for a party of one is not a meaningless venture.

I don’t know if it’s accurate to describe Qwant as “private.” There is a bit to be desired with their privacy policy, such as them apparently sending your IP address to Microsoft

https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/

There’s also this bizarre section

If you have not consented or are not subject to the Services offered, we automatically collect technical data… Salted hash of the IP address…, market segment of a query, date and time of the visit, information about the country and chosen language…

Anonymized by Microsoft after 6 months.

Amazing how your post history illustrates you only care about one topic. Like the last time I saw one of your posts:

These articles are getting so obscure, that you probably had to peel through a good amount of stuff that people here would find way more relevant.

And based on other articles from this same website, they are American exceptionalists. And not competent about technology. Here is another article of theirs, “how autocrats weaponize AI”, which was published last month and refuses to mention the Trump administration among their list of autocrats.

The article is also extremely stupid, misrepresenting how Signal works.

Encryption apps like Signal use AI to ensure secure communication and protect activists from government surveillance.

I don’t know what the author was smoking when they wrote that, but Signal does not use any AI.

CEO: Why would we take your data, you directly fund us so obviously we will only focus on providing the best search experience

CEO: dumps money into AI and a T-shirt factory

Okay, so for those of us using third party apps like Thunderbird, everything is done using app specific passwords, which is great

The new feature for Email App Passwords for external email programmes

But if this is a new feature, how did third party apps work before? Could people just not use them if they enabled 2FA?

Edit: …a decentralized Monero exchange

There’s the Monero shilling I expect in every comment

How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?