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Verified by Google == The transaction went through.
I switched permanently to duckduckgo yesterday. Couldn’t be happier.
They also have some trackers I think. Try SearxNG.
Urgh I hate apple. Can’t choose something else but these default options. And I have to use the safari browser because it is the only one that has the accomodations for my disability I need.
(replying from my alt cuz image hosting is down on blahaj.zone)
Actually I found a way to bypass this using the “hyperweb” extension, if anyone needs in future
You did this to yourself when you bought an Apple device
Android doesnt have the accessibility things I need at all 🤷 didnt have much of a choice.
I'm sorry you have to deal with that. And I'm sorry you don't have a choice
They can just install another browser..
Meh, the results have got very bad. They are mostly ads now and every damn article is provided not by its origin but msn
What is? Not DuckDuckGo?
DuckDuckGo
Always use an adblocker. Never disable it for any website regardless how much you like it. If they want to show you ads, they don't like you.
For PC: https://ublockorigin.com
For mobile: https://adguard.com
Unfortunately true. Support sites you love through purchases, subscriptions, and donations. Ads are, at best, a vector of mental malware. At worst, a vector of actual malware.
The issue is, that people always say this but then people don't donate.
People have server costs and living costs and ads are realistically the only way to contribute to those. I always swing €5 here and there to developers whos apps I use often but most people don't: look at the Ko-fi page of small devs and they probably have less than €50 total, That's a couple months of server costs probably.
had someone call the other day that nearly got scammed after clicking the top 'result' (it was an ad) on a google search for amazon.
I feel like if they’re dumb enough to google search for amazon instead of just typing amazon.com then this is far from the only scam they’re falling for.
FFS, that's got to be by design. Like, Google recognises that you're an easy target for scammers and directs you towards them.
I bet if you did the same search logged into your own account, or even not logged in at all, you wouldn't get the same result.
If Google make money from this, then why would they stop?
Also, Lemmy and markdown in general requires you to put a > on the blank lines to make a continuous quote. Reddit has taught us all wrong.
Like
this
I don't know if this worked
Let's see
You need the > on every line you want to be in the quote format.
> Quote line
> <- Empty line that's part of the quote
> Continuation of the quote after the empty line
^This would appear as:
Quote line
Continuation of the quote after the empty line
See!!! I knew this shit was gonna happen. Check out my post from a while back - on chrome and edge, when you hover over the links, they resolve instead of showing you the top link.
This means they can setup infra and evade scanning to redirect probes to legit sites like retailers, bank homepages, etc.
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