My reply was purely to get to the accurate information versus your reply which says that they are “collecting data from their search engine not the browser” as it’s important that people reading know what’s actually going on.

I’m not here to argue about whether they should or should not do that and I’m not going to (and when I used Brave I consciously went into the menu to opt into this to improve their search engine so we could have a competitor).

https://support.brave.com/hc/en-us/articles/4409406835469-What-is-the-Web-Discovery-Project-

If you opt in, you’ll contribute some anonymous data about searches and web page visits made within the Brave Browser (including pages arrived at via some, but not all, other search engines). This data helps build the Brave Search independent index, and ensure we show results relevant to your search queries. By “data” we mean search queries, search result clicks, the URLs of pages visited in the browser, time spent on those pages, and some metadata about the pages themselves.

My emphasis.

I just discovered this on a relative’s computer. Any trick to removing the VPN service?

🤔😔🤷🤷🤦

I think they’re saying the opposite: millennials as “boomers” so-to-speak.

To people who say the link won’t work: I opened a private window in Firefox and it worked for me.

Survey research is hard – especially when you are a student learning to do it.

Privacy Friendly QR-Code Scanner by the research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) at Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They make a bunch of simple privacy respecting apps.

All it does is display the text of the QR code for you so you can copy investigate it.

Plus if it’s clicking on ads for me, does that mean it’s potentially helping to load malware delivered through advertising?

Does the service have non-superhero and non-animated-family-movies content? The name “Disney” puts me off, because I an not into superheroes and I don’t have a family so I don’t really watch animated family musicals.

Public dance contest.

Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there’s a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It’s similar to how we went from “machine learning” to “AI”.

It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant “metaverse” is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.

Is there a way to pipe the download directly to a video player so it’s more like a stream so that the data is just cached and deleted afterwards?

Just do a bit at a time. I even installed a desktop email manager to help me with it, since it’s easier to switch between the two accounts in a single application versus having the two webpages up.

Also, if you use a password manager you’ll be able to filter your database by email since email address = account login credential in most cases.

Out of fear of losing access to my accounts I’ve been moving them out of Gmail as the central point of control. I suggest other people do this too.