Today's act of kindness: I helped two victims of surveillance (mainstream users) with some basic privacy:
Google search > DuckDuckGo
Chrome > Firefox + uBlock Origin
Gmail > @Tutanota
Minimize number of apps
Simple actions that cuts a big chunk of surveillance. As usual they were surprised how it works.
@Tutanota @jonas @Tutanota #Duckduckgo is a terrible recommendation. see https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/29179
Privacy is almost always relative to the threat model of the individual.
Searxes often get blocked or simply don't return anything due to bad configuration.
Despite that I prefer them and recomended it to all my tech friends.
However it's simply a poor choice for an average person that preffers stuff like search bubbles and targeted ads
@jonas @wuwei and to say any searx instance "don't return anything due to bad configuration", it's wrong to say the config is bad. It's a consequence of /scraping/ instead of /buying API access/, & this is good for #privacy. #DDG buys API access, which entails helping #Verizon (a privacy abuser) profit.
