Dafuq... Want a top super secret tipp? Snowden leaks... and wikileaks...

yawn It’s as if people are actually pretending that uXDT and other tracking methods are something new... TVs, cell phones, smart devices, IoT devices, etc.—of course, everything is affected... Back then, some tracking methods were mainly used to track offline devices far away from a network... The whole thing just kept evolving... The fact that people are now bringing this up in relation to Ali, even though it’s even more prevalent in Western products... Or advertising using ultrasonic sounds. (Hehe, or in stores...) And if you think about side-channel attacks now—for example, the characteristic sounds from hard drives, CPUs, etc.

And when you consider what came to light about these issues through Snowden and WikiLeaks.

Whether it’s the U.S. or Europe… both are steadily eroding democracy… But of course, you worry about what they’re tracking about you in China, not what your own countries are tracking about you—and how that could end really badly… Just think about it: if Hitler had had access to something like that—oh my…

So I only use it locally on my Raspberry Pi and access it from the network. Accordingly, the results only include what I crawl (these are recrawled after a specified time to keep them up to date in case content changes, is removed, or is added on the actual websites). You can configure how deeply it should crawl and whether it should include links to other websites, etc. I’ve just set a shallow crawl depth of, I think, 3 or so. But I also search regularly with DDG to find other websites that I then add to the index for crawling. (This would be unnecessary for P2P operation.) That’s how I keep expanding it. You also have to set limits on the crawling; otherwise, it’ll use up all the network bandwidth if the computing power allows it. I don’t really use any of the customization, filtering, or ranking features, but I still took a look at what could be configured there—and there’s really a lot, so you can completely tailor the search engine to your own needs. It’s a little unfortunate that it’s based on Java

Here is a list of public Yacy instances that anyone can use: https://yacy.space/ ( ofc this works just p2p because someone else is hosting)

Data protection and privacy are important to me. (Here comes the joke.) Since I haven't had a VPN for a while (I need to sign up for one again, but I'm such an idiot—I always put it off and only think about it when I'm short on cash. xD) and I haven't set up DynDNS either, I only use Yacy locally.

Back then, I was running it on a Raspberry Pi 3B (now a Raspberry Pi 5) and hosting it via P2P. But I also had a VPN and so on.
So far, I've been a bit too lazy to set up Yacy completely on the PI 5. I'll be honest—since the settings are really powerful, it can take quite a while to get everything set up. 😅🤣

Yacy p2p search engine. Run global p2p, Intranet p2p or local only. Crawl the web yourself. Customizations.
Filtering.
Ranking.
etc.

I'll just do without the contacts then. I'm not going to let work force me into it just yet, even though it's used all the time there. I don't give a damn if it puts me at a disadvantage. Well, more and more people are switching over these days.

Mh also ich lese da Werbung für Lemmy. ;)