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So as you may know, i am a guy mostly focused on privacy. Basically, insead of google i use SearXNG. (Privacy focused search engine) However, when i went to change the default search engine in safari, there was no option to add a custom search engine.

This really pissed me off. So how come Apple allows changing default browsers in the EU, but not search engines?

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[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@TwilightKiddy @prousername bro really said hashing is a privacy violation??

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they where hashing any lauched programs and sending the hashes unencryped to their servers to compare against their database. So, they literally knew every program you launched, when you did it, but also your ISP knew it and anyone smart enough to MITM your connection. Sounds like a privacy violation to me.

[–] countablenewt@allthingstech.social 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@TwilightKiddy I can see how you can get there, but the MITM would need to know the hashing algo, you can’t *really* just un-hash something, at least not reliably

But your original statement was that the hashing was the privacy violation, and that’s the part I took issue with, hashing is a generally accepted security measure, it is not inherently a privacy violation

[–] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev -1 points 2 months ago

I meant a pretty well-known case, not hashing in general. Thought that was obvious.