jsgohac

joined 4 years ago
 

Privacy disclaimer: Algo is not focused on privacy, but prioritizes security. You host it yourself on a cloud instance, so you are attached to a single IP.

As an iphone user, I have not seen many good ad-blocking solutions and I sadly expect zero anonymity on mobile. Perhaps Disconnect was OK. I would like to know more if they exist.

Algo gives an option to install an adblocker on your vpn server and it seems to work fairly well. You can set it up in under half hour and destroy your $5 instance as needed. You can use on desktop if you want, but I prefer dynamic IP VPNs when possible.

[–] jsgohac@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) (1 children)

Cook has gone so far as to call for tighter regulations on explicit user data sales, so likely not much there. Maybe in its ad platform aggregated data might be used.

The closest thing in that regard I could find was their mention of advertising sales in their quarterly report. Likely user data in some aggregated form is sold to sellers, like FB does

Services Services net sales increased during the third quarter of 2020 compared to the third quarter of 2019 due primarily to higher net sales from the App Store, Video and Cloud Services. Year-over-year Services net sales increased during the first nine months of 2020 due primarily to higher net sales from the App Store, Advertising and AppleCare. Advertising net sales includes net sales from licensing arrangements and the Company’s advertising platforms.

Here is one snippet on their ad efforts (from an unlinkable ad cancer adweek site):

Apple Is Quietly Ramping Up Its Ad Game With Search Ads Expansion The App Store is trying again at one of its few failures

 

It would be an overstatement to say Microsoft now has an iron grip on JavaScript, a view that is rooted in fear among those who remember the time when Microsoft was openly hostile to open source, Murphy added.

"How you package for Node.js is hardly controlling the future of JavaScript," he said. "Microsoft does have a large play in JavaScript as a whole, but it is an open community."

 

Avoid commercial sites by adding your own flavor of top level domain (TLD) limitations, e.g. "(site:.org OR site:.net OR site:*.edu))"

For example: instead of returning the top result on ahrefs.com, this query:

  • 'search operators "site" (site:.org OR site:.net OR site:*.edu))' makes it easier to find: "https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/GoogleTips" in what would be a sea of SEO gamed results on .com domains.

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