@Tutanota

– https://www.searchenginemap.com
– https://eylenburg.github.io/ai_search_maps.htm
– https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
– https://www.privacyguides.org/en/search-engines/
– https://tools.techlore.tech/#search-engines
– https://privacytools.io/apps/most-rated?cat=private-search
– https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/search.html

#computing #internet #search #FediTips

Old Reddit is making people log in now to use that platform.

Let's get it clear, when they all force you to log in, they get your email, perhaps phone number, and other information they can sell.

Almost every platform forces you to make an account. And I see this as a "precursor" to the age (ID) verification that came after.

I rant about this pet peeve of mine below:
https://theforesthiker.github.io/ThoughtForest/Blogs/loginRant.html

#internet #freeinternet #reddit #blog #technology #writing #rant #privacy

Based on an analysis of twenty countries, Lenz et al. observed a sliding shift in censorship behavior based on the degree of authoritarianism.
Paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/407109758_Digital_Control_National_Tactics_of_Internet_Censorship

#censorship #internetcensorship #internet #freedomofspeech #freespeech #cybersecurity #freedom

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Sliding Scale of Control: As authoritarianism grows, censorship shifts from legaltools to physical infrastructure.

#Confederate flags, although considered more problematic today in Britain as we interact with a wider variety folk from USA due to #Internet, stiil aren't entirely uncommon at #oldtimer / #car festivals this side of the pond due to their association with the Dukes of Hazzard and #rockabilly culture of 1970s/80s (those who were around then may remember the band #Matchbox ) - but Nazi material is definitely dodgy (its not even a display of WW2 era vehicles)

More so is the stallholder being aggressive when photos were taken of it, so they clearly knew if wasn't considered acceptable.

This is why I'm reluctant to go to #car related events in my region, even though there are many interesting ones..

https://archive.ph/1rtdv

Leonie Tanczer: Technology and Control

Dr. Leonie Tanczer discusses how smartphones, connected household devices, surveillance tools, location trackers and AI can be repurposed to facilitate domestic abuse, allowing perpetrators to monitor, manipulate and intimidate victims through ordinary technologies designed for convenience or protection. She argues that cybersecurity must protect people as well as systems, particularly in shared-device environments where one account holder may exercise disproportionate control. Rather than relying on generic security advice, which can increase danger in abusive situations, responses should be guided by professional risk assessment and individualized safety planning. Tanczer calls for safety-by-design, transparent access records, stronger regulation and a broader concept of digital consent that treats control over one’s devices, accounts, location and data as an extension of bodily autonomy. She also questions whether normalizing parental surveillance teaches children to equate monitoring with love and safety, potentially preparing them to accept coercive behavior in later relationships.

https://media.blubrry.com/plutopia_news_network/plutopia.io/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Leonie-Tanczer.mp3

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Leonie Tanczer:

Products that are marketed for protection are actually misused. Things like CCTV cameras that are internet-connected and allow people to install it and monitor a person in a household while they are not physically there. Equally, doorbells, which is so funny because there’s this whole effort of our police forces handing out Ring doorbells, for example, for protective purposes. But again, if you’re thinking of a coercive and controlling environment that is often very gendered—and, let’s be honest, unfortunately, in most heterosexual households, the people that are in charge of digital systems are men. So they are the account holders, they’ve set it up, they decide when it’s going to be disposed of. So, if they are in charge of the Ring doorbell, so to say, they will be able to monitor when you come and go or who else is coming and going.

Includes this chapter by Leonie Tanczer: “Technology-Facilitated Abuse and the Internet of Things (IoT): The Implication of the Smart, Internet-Connected Devices on Domestic Violence and Abuse”

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/117066506009210864

Bring back Web 1.0. Or maybe even Web 0.x.

#Privacy #SmallWeb #SmolWeb #Internet

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Em » 🌐 2026-08-09
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

I miss when technology
wasn't spying on us.

#Tech #Privacy

The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!

"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."

Happy birthday, web!

Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later

#TheWeb #internet #WorldWideWeb #FirstWebsite #history #OTD

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Screenshot of a very simple web page from the first link in the post, titled "World Wide Web", with no images, just black text on white background, and blue, underlined links. Below the title is a brief description of the World Wide Web project and a few links, that are blue and underlined. Full transcript of the web page text: The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents. Everything there is online about W3 is linked directly or indirectly to this document, including an executive summary of the project, Mailing lists , Policy , November's W3 news , Frequently Asked Questions . What's out there? Pointers to the world's online information, subjects , W3 servers, etc. Help on the browser you are using Software Products A list of W3 project components and their current state. (e.g. Line Mode ,X11 Viola , NeXTStep , Servers , Tools , Mail robot , Library ) Technical Details of protocols, formats, program internals etc Bibliography Paper documentation on W3 and references. People A list of some people involved in the project. History A summary of the history of the project. How can I help ? If you would like to support the web.. Getting code Getting the code by anonymous FTP , etc.

ADSL's Copper Miracle: How the telecom industry turned the doomed copper telephone wire into a usable asset with an asymmetric transmission profile and discrete multitone modulation, which provided the early fast (by 2000 standards) always-on Internet connection. (31 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phoeSk-qY8s

#Internet #Telecom #Broadband #TelecomHistory

We run several CompuServe 32 bit and 36 bit machines which you can connect to remotely. #internet #history #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Which software ecosystems have you been brave and courageous enough **to abandon completely**? Check all that apply

Please boost for #Science

#SocialMedia #Meta #Google #Microsoft #internet #web #apps #Bigtech

@therealitynetwork People also don't care much for #trust more than price.

Sometimes if a company far away enough and not in their faces, they are happy to pay up, give all their details in exchange for the #internet.

If it's not a person but a company "it's fine!"

Sad / true / evident. It's another provider re-selling with a random company name usually.

Most people don't care about trust more than the notion they to 'report it to someone' if it goes wrong, even if they don't know who!

If, like me, you love 1990s Web sites, back when the internet wasn't enshittified by Big Tech yet, have a look at Wiby, a Web 1.0 search engine.

Click on "Surprise me…" for random discoveries, often personal Web pages about obscure niche subjects, but sometimes you find a hidden gem…

https://wiby.org

#web #internet #online #RetroComputing #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #computing #IT #1990s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital

RE: https://mastodon.online/@drewdaniels/117023815109265512

"The Stone is an online game developed by web company Abject Modernity Internet Creations Inc. in 1995. The mystery game was created in 1996 but launched as a consumer product in 1997. People had to buy a physical stone containing the login credentials to the website, which was unheard of at the time."

#retrocomputing #1990s #internet

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Drew Scott Daniels » 🌐 2026-08-02
@drewdaniels@mastodon.online

@vga256 this reminds me of “The Stone” game and paraphernalia that we had in Winnipeg.
I didn’t know about the documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_(video_game)
The second parenthesis doesn’t seem to be working in the auto-hyperlink on Mastodon.
A friend of mine worked there briefly.

One of the film makers became a politician. I think I went to grade school with the other creator’s brother.

For a while I was keeping an MTS phone card with branding for the game.

Yes, this was a real thing.

The modern era. #grickledoodle #vampire #horror #movie #internet #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

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Vampire and two skeletal friends sit in a gothic castle theater staring at a large screen that reads "Loading...", their ruined movie night from the castle's bad internet. Caption reads "Yet again, another movie night was totally ruined by the castle's crappy internet connection."

📄 I have published my summary of the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) activities at #IETF126 in Vienna.

The report covers the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW), the IRTF Open Meeting, and all 14 Research Groups—from AI networking and Internet architecture to routing, transport, privacy, sustainability, quantum networking, and more.

One aspect that makes the IRTF particularly valuable is its research model. Rather than organizing around individual publications, the IRTF is organized around long-lived research communities where researchers, engineers, implementers, operators, and standards experts collaboratively explore fundamental Internet challenges over many years.

At a time when AI is transforming how research is written, reviewed, and disseminated, sustained technical dialogue and open collaboration are becoming increasingly important.

🔗 https://dirk-kutscher.info/irtf/ietf-126/

#IRTF #IETF #Networking #Internet #Research #OpenStandards

Stop the tracking circus. Kill the cookie banner!

Tired of misleading cookie banners? The EU Commission has finally proposed a solution: set your privacy preferences in the browser once, and never see another banner. Unfortunately, the tracking industry is pushing back – and so far, they’ve been successful. We need YOUR help to #KillTheCookieBanner!

🍪 https://killthecookiebanner.eu

#tracking #cookies #cookiebanner #eu #web #browser #internet #tracking #stop #privacy #privacymatters

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in #Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

#Privacy #ageverification #IDverification #Study #Data #Science #Survey #Tech #SocialMedia #Technology #Internet #Censorship #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #Surveillance

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Screenshot of graphic from this study of Australia's social media ban: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf Percent of banned 14-15-year olds (b) Compliance rate, April versus June 2026 Usage rate: 64% April, 92% June Implied compliance: 27% April, 6% June Notes: Figure 5 reports self-reported past-7-day use of any banned platform.

I’m using ___ as a web browser on my phone:

#browsers #internet #mobileapps #web #phone #apple #google

🤪🤪🤪🤪💁‍♀️*My Internet because of the stormy atmosphere is frustratingly not working right!*I need to give it up for the day!☹️

#Bad #Internet #Disturbance #in #the #force

The #DeltaChat server that I was using seems to have stopped working for receiving messages, which sucks 😞 but such is the nature of decentralisation 🤷

It's really easy just to start a new account on a new server - so that's not really a problem - but I'm lucky that I only have one contact that message on the app because "re-adding" people isn't super straight forward. 🤔

#technology #apps #messagingApps #internet #chat #e2ee

Take note if you do NOT want Google using your data to train AI models!

Google recently updated its search privacy settings and automatically opted all its customers into its expanded AI training.

Images, voice searches, and videos uploaded into Google Search Services can be used to train LLMs.

The GOOD news is, you can disable this feature to retain your privacy. https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-training-ai-on-more-of-your-data-now-unless-you-opt-out/ #Google #GoogleSearch #Search #Internet #AI #LLMs #SocialMedia #Privacy #DataPrivacy #Media #SearchServices #Personaldata #Chatbot #SearchHistory #SearchServicePersonalization

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Age verification plans: “The problem is platform design, not age”

The EU plans stricter rules for online youth protection. Marielle Findorff from vzbv explains why age checks are not the solution.

https://www.heise.de/en/background/Age-verification-plans-The-problem-is-platform-design-not-age-11364562.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #EU #Internet #IT #Netzpolitik #SocialMedia #Wirtschaft #news

#RUSSIAN HACKED #DOORBELL #CAMERAS TO TRACK #KYIV’S #WEAPONS DELIVERIES: On #July 10, #Dutch #intelligence agencies uncovered a large-scale Russian operation to hack into #civilian cameras connected to the #internet along weapons supply #routes to #Ukraine.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/07/11/8043531/

When We Create a Hostile Offline Environment for Teens, They Take Refuge Online

One of the things people talk about with age verification is that teens are sucked in and need to get off. That's not what's happening.

https://www.freezenet.ca/when-we-create-a-hostile-offline-environment-for-teens-they-take-refuge-online/

#Censorship #Editorial #News #ChatRoom #Internet #kids #social #SocialMedia #teens

"Amid all the corruption, this is especially gross:🚨the billions Congress/Biden approved to build fiber internet in places left behind has been🚨redirected to Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos for doing nothing. Musk has pocketed $738 million so far. Places like rural Louisiana were screwed."
-S Mitchell

#Corruption #Musk #Bezos #Trump #Fiber #Internet #Starllink #USPol
https://www.theverge.com/policy/953944/bead-broadband-funding-trump-musk-bezos?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImIwQTUxeW5VR3UiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS85NTM5NDQvYmVhZC1icm9hZGJhbmQtZnVuZGluZy10cnVtcC1tdXNrLWJlem9zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzgyNjQ5Njg4LCJpYXQiOjE3ODIyMTc2ODh9.Cs8NCZo5Wwz7qAuHLkO5ZSgdFcdqPj5Bp9xeQo9wqM0&utm_medium=gift-link

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From the article, a pic of a silhouette of Musk with a message: you're not connected to the internet.

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Excerpt about Louisianan not receiving service.