https://odysee.com/@KimIversen:d/big-tech-is-threatening-our-democracy:a
#Kim #Iversen #Google #Internet #voting #psychology #media #bigtech #4IR #new_world #influence #searchengine #search #web #society
Chaïne #Elucid sur #Peertube :
Par #OlivierBerruyer : https://indymotion.fr/c/elucid_media/videos
Pour info.
Rappel : Faire une recherche sur toutes instances Peertube - #Sepia #Search :
#SepiaSearch : https://sepiasearch.org/
source: https://torrentfreak.com/google-search-asked-to-remove-one-billion-pirate-links-in-9-months-230807/
Looking more closely at the timeline, we see that a billion #URLs were reported to Google search in less than nine months. For comparison, it took twice as long to go from five to six billion, suggesting that the #takedown volume picked up again after a previously reported decline.
Google has announced several key changes to make its search platform safer for users by giving more control to South Africans (and other countries) over what personal information appears in results.
The internet giant said that it is bundling a host of new features that will allow users to remove their personal information from search and tackle explicit material posted without consent.
Google said that it is implementing major updates to this tool, making it easier for users to remove their personal contact information from Search. The tool will proactively monitor the web for results containing users’ contact information and enable immediate removal requests. Users will also be notified when new results appear containing their contact info.
Why this is also positive, is that it can also be difficult to get information removed from actual websites which are in many different countries. So being able to also just remove the indexed link, does help quite a bit as there is no longer something pointing most users to that information associated with you.
So will this be possible with DDG and Brave search too? I know some may decry the freedom of search is being encroached here, but it should also be remembered that it does often happen that the private information being published is also not legal. Just today, when testing this out I discovered my private cellphone number published (I know from the wording with it, that it was obtained from very likely a banking or insurance source, and my permission was not given for it to be published). In many countries, the right to privacy is also entrenched in their laws. The right to know does not usually override the right to privacy that individuals have.
See https://businesstech.co.za/news/internet/709098/4-big-changes-coming-to-google-including-removing-personal-information-and-images-from-search/
#Blog, #privacy, #search, #technology
DuckDuckGo is primarily known for its focus on privacy. But the search engine (and now browser) offers several helpful features, many of which aren’t even available on Google or Bing. So if you are new to DuckDuckGo, here are five features to improve your search experience.
Interestingly enough, I found the bangs feature (shortcut to the site search of specific websites and services) to work quite well with Brave Search, too. There are over 16,563 bangs, including quite a few for my own country too.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/855568/5-duckduckgo-features-you-should-be-using/
#Blog, #DuckDuckGo, #search, #technology
Identifying and tracing a person’s footprints across the #internet usually involves researching nicknames across a wide variety of different platforms. On the one hand you can use the tool to find a nickname that is still available on all platforms and on the other hand to identify the probably same user across platforms. So if you value your privacy, remember how easy it is to find anything on the Internet with the right tools.
github: https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock
#tool #utility #search #find #nickname #python #terminal #opensource #privacy
I have found search results to be very good with Reddit links in the past. I get that Reddit needs to pay for their hosting (just like everyone else) but with so many more Internet users waking up to federated sites and truly open APIs, we are seeing a lot of what was on Reddit, now blossoming on the various Reddit alternatives on the Fediverse.
Just like Mastodon had to grow through its multiple waves of growth (thanks to Elon Musk), the Reddit alternatives seem to be going through the same growth spurts now.
Most users seem quite OK with how the alternatives work, as most are active where they joined, and have not fully explored how to follow and interact with other instances (and there is no need to really unless they want to). The key thing with searching for Communities (Subreddits) is to change the default from Local to All at the top, to see all communities no matter where they are, and just subscribe. That’s really all there is to it. Carry On as normal.
So, as the communities are growing and flourishing, the content will also start to get richer, and hopefully the search engines will soon also start to show results from the various Fediverse sites as well. It is time that search engines and organisations started to adjust to the decentralised model of social networking. It has been interesting to see which organisations have already been dipping their toes into Mastodon, Bluesky, etc and yes, at some point the advertising is going to also arrive whether anyone likes it or not. One big difference is there is no paid push advertising (but don’t underestimate marketing teams!).
For me, it is not just about the cost of the Reddit API, it is about the freedom of use, and the future. We want something that can stay open and not be arbitrarily charged for, or manipulated, by a single individual company. It is much the same reason why I have long supported open standards such as ODF, PDF, ActivityPub, and many more. They help us interact and exchange data more easily and cheaper, whether for recreation or business, and they will endure the test of time for the future.
#Blog, #fediverse, #interoperability, #openstandards, #search, #technology
The Mycroft Project is a collection of over 26 thousand OpenSearch & Sherlock Search Engine Plugins for your internet browser.
OpenSearch is supported by Firefox, IE and Chrome.
Sherlock is supported by Firefox, and other Mozilla-based browsers.The name Mycroft refers to Mycroft Holmes, the brother of Sherlock Holmes in the novels of Arthur Conan Doyle - The Mycroft Project originates from Apple's Sherlock software.
#Mycroft #search #search-engine #plugins #Firefox #Mozilla #Chrome
The other kind of search — "exploratory search" — is the hard one. That's where you don't know what you don't know. What's the right phone for me? What's the deal with the Thirty Years' War? Getting a satisfactory answer is more iterative. You throw a bunch of keywords into the search box, you scroll through the links, you try new terms. It's not perfect, and it's skewed by the profit motives of advertisers and the implicit judgments that #Google makes behind the scenes about which pages count as authoritative. But it's what made it possible for us to find a needle in an online haystack.
#knowledge #searchEngine #news #future #hype #chatgpt #software #economy #capitalism #freedom
In the advertisement, Bard is given the prompt: "What new discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can I tell my 9-year old about?" Bard responds with a number of answers, including one suggesting the JWST was used to take the very first pictures of a planet outside the Earth's #solar system, or exoplanets. The first pictures of exoplanets were, however, taken by the European Southern #Observatory's Very Large #Telescope (VLT) in 2004, as confirmed by #NASA.
Now think of the near #future when we don't have #search engines like today anymore. We have to trust that the awnser is true.
#news #exoplanet #science #space #problem #technology #knowledge
I'm really annoyed by the #Internet of today:
Once being an open platform geared towards information exchange and bringing people into contact, most of the public Internet today is nothing but annoying useless #marketing, #advertising and #data #collection. Providing information, connecting people, and making life convenient is definitely NOT the primary goal of whoever is big on the Internet today. It's shocking to see how much of it is only to sell you stuff or to sell your information.
And the worst is: we are even paying them to do this shit. #Marketing spending will be reflected in product prices, and with much of marketing being done in 1st world countries, a substantial amount of the price goes into this destructive industry.
I could go on with this for hours. Really sick of it.
Good news in multiple ways: Reinhart rules against unsealing the affidavit accompanying the search warrant executed at Mar-a-Lago.
When U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart initially indicated he was disposed to unsealing the affidavit accompanying the search warrant executed at former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home, former prosecutors and legal experts were surprised, to put it mildly.
Now it appears we are unlikely to see much if anything from the affidavit — and for good reason. On Monday, Reinhart issued a ruling noting that “one of the statutes for which I found probable cause … prohibits obstructing an investigation. Also, as some of the media Intervenors have reported, there have been increased threats against FBI personnel since the search.”
He therefore found that “given the public notoriety and controversy about this search, it is likely that even witnesses who are not expressly named in the Affidavit would be quickly and broadly identified over social media and other communication channels, which could lead to them being harassed and intimidated.” In other words, the MAGA campaign of incitement against law enforcement should weigh heavily against disclosure.
Reinhart continued, “The Affidavit discloses the sources and methods used by the Government in its ongoing investigation. I agree with the Government that the Affidavit ‘contains, among other critically important and detailed investigative facts: highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government; specific investigative techniques; and information required by law to be kept under seal.’ ”
Reinhart therefore concluded: “Government has a compelling reason not to publicize that information at this time.” Reinhart agreed to consider whether a redacted affidavit might be released, but his opinion strongly suggests that nothing significant would be revealed.
While Trump has filed a preposterous lawsuit seeking a freeze on the examination of the recovered documents, he is unlikely to shift attention from this blockbuster revelation from the New York Times:
"In total, the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from Mr. Trump since he left office, [multiple people briefed on the matter] said: that first batch of documents returned in January, another set provided by Mr. Trump’s aides to the Justice Department in June and the material seized by the F.B.I. in the search this month."
The sheer number of documents previously recovered and their sources (from the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency) raise the stakes considerably for Trump, undercutting his followers’ frivolous excuses and ludicrous accusations of an FBI plot to persecute him.
Even more incriminating, the Times reports, “Mr. Trump went through the boxes himself in late 2021,” meaning he was clearly aware of the contents and could view the classification markings. If the FBI and Justice Department are looking for evidence of Trump’s direct knowledge of the materials and willful refusal to return all of them, this would fit the bill.
If, contrary to what Trump’s counsel said, the government did not previously get back all sensitive materials, the only logical conclusion would be that Trump refused to part with documents he falsely told aides were “mine." This might be the rare case when Trump lacks even a hint of plausible deniability (e.g., the ability to shift blame to his attorney). [emphasis mine]
If the facts are as damning as they appear, Trump’s risk of indictment is quite high. After the evidence is gathered, Attorney General Merrick Garland will need to decide whether to pursue an indictment from the grand jury. With a discrete set of facts that a jury can easily comprehend, powerful evidence of Trump’s willfulness and the clear interest in protecting the nation’s secrets, Garland will have every incentive to proceed — and surely not wait until the exponentially more complicated Jan. 6 investigation concludes. [emphasis mine]
#Reinhart #Affidavit #Trump #Mar-a-Lago #FBI #Search
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/23/trump-documents-indictment-risk-skyrocket/
DuckDuckGo's 3rd-Party #Tracker Loading Protection already blocks tracking scripts from companies like #Facebook and #Google. DuckDuckGo said it was already blocking most Microsoft tracking scripts and restricted Microsoft tracking through other protections, including blocking Microsoft's third-party cookies in DuckDuckGo browsers.
#cookie #protection #browser #search #privacy #surveillance #software #news
FBI agents who searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home Monday removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as top secret and meant to be only available in special government facilities, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Video in link -> otherwise behind paywall https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-recovered-eleven-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-inventory-shows-11660324501
Article -> https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fbi-recovered-11-sets-of-classified-documents-in-trump-search-report/ar-AA10BAJo
#FBI #search #trump
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