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Shamot

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Some like Phind or Perplexity cite their sources. And they give you directly the answer you’re looking for without having to search it in a mess of “subscribe to our newsletter”, “other articles that may interest you”, 3 paragraphs of “if you read this article, you will know what you want to know”, “special promotion for you”,…

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Glad to see you use cash. It’s often forgotten in privacy advice, despite being one of the most importants.

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And pay in cash

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Apple speaks like overprotective parents that don’t want their kids to leave home alone.

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I think my first donation would be to GrapheneOS.

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A few years ago, I’ve read an article where the journalists investigated this. They asked to Facebook it they actually do it and Facebook confirmed.

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Looks useful to hide sites where you have to choose between accepting targeted ads and paying a subscription.

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But it’s clear that Google has a history of building products with RSS and killing the RSS support once it’s established a user base.

Not only RSS. It was the same with XMPP, and probably other things I don’t remember now. Better don’t rely on Google products.

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The announcer (the enterprise on the ad) pays to the advertising platform (for example Google) which gives a small amount to the site displaying the ad.

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