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Yeah that's what was announced but sadly I don't think any consequent investment has been made.

Meh 🤷

They were historically completely dependent on Bing (like most other search engines) and while they continued putting some efforts in building their own index, they're nowhere close to it.

They also recently made a few moves to push advertising and to compromise with privacy (eg. the option to create tracked account to access some AI services).

On the other hands they will probably be more respectful than Google, and the quality of Google's results seems to be degrading faster than Qwant is improving 🤷

I'd guess Ecosia is in a similar situation. I've personally been using Kagi for a while but recent events make me consider moving to a European alternative too.

According to Wikipedia pages 14, 18, 1488, 8814 are also common Nazi's symbols. I personally feel the birthday explanation more likely as I see a lot of people doing that (without the nerdy base 2).

But yeah, I'm not sure of anything now, if you told me a few years ago that dozens of billionaires would go full on highlander on 2025 I wouldn't have believed you...

I have a channel on my team's Slack were I just vent off on these kind of situations 😬

#windows-is-the-best, inspired from #gitlab-is-the-best, the chan were everyone vents off when the CI refuses to pick up workers 😅

BuyFromEU from EU then? 😅

Yeah I think the "you" in "help you navigate [...]" is the key but it is way too broad. I had a quick look to the privacy notice and it seems quite reasonable. For each feature they either :

• process data locally (eg. for translations)
• anonymise it before sending it to partners (eg. affiliated searches 💩)
• store a minimal amount of information (eg. for FF account)

There is a paragraph about partners being legally binded to comply to their privacy policy, I guess this is about cloud providers? 🤷

So I hope they'll take the time to clarify that...

I've been willingly enabling data collection features for Mozilla but I guess that time is revolute, they don't feel trustworthy anymore.

Well I suppose LibreWolf (or some other de-branded Firefox) will become more mainstream. Similar to what chromium is to chrome 🤷

Sad that no one saw that coming 🙄

I'm not that surprised, a lot of people around me dot have a clear picture of what is the relationship between MacOS, Linux and Unix is. So I suppose some of them would guess that Linux is a modern fork of Unix and MacOS based on Unix.

It would probably take decades to unplug older systems but with a gradual approach we could probably get rid of most of it quite fast.

I wonder how much public money is wasted in Microsoft crapware, but if any of it would be redirected to open source fundings (which is actual common good) it may be a huge deal.

Maybe I'll manage to convince someone in my 300k employees company that they need to let me experiment working with a Linux laptop in case we're forced out of windows.