Colin Hayhurst

Thank you, good to know and thanks for clarifying. It's what they sent out in their email to us @mojeek.com and presumably many others.

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

What good does it do us when we respect robots.txt, publish our IPs, and do not donate to any such; nor would if we could. As for the Google-Reddit deal, I can't now say more than this: www.404media.co/google-is-th...

This is available now: ofcomlive.my.salesforce-sites.com/formentry/Re...

We began the Ethical Web Principles as a W3CTAG doc, to record the ethics behind our architectural decisions & advice.

Today, it’s a W3C statement: it’s been endorsed by W3C as a whole

Thanks to my co-editors @torgo.com & @rhiaro.co.uk; rest of the TAG; & all who helped

www.w3.org/TR/ethical-w...

Congratulations

Old maps online - 1066

Bookmarked for hours of fun
www.oldmapsonline.org/en/history/r...

Mozilla email requests for donations

Mozilla begging frequency 📈

What’s in your privacy utility belt?

Here’s what Session’s looks like:

📧 Email: @proton.me / @tutaprivacy.bsky.social

🌐 Browser: Brave / Tor

🔍 Search: @mojeek.bsky.social / @startpagesearch.bsky.social

🥸 VPN: @mullvad.bsky.social / @proton.me

Drop yours below 👇

Letter to Peter Kyle: Keep our right not to be subjected to decisions based solely on AI Civil society organisations, trade unions, academics and campaigners have called for the government to scrap proposals to remove the right not to be subject to decisions made by automated or AI system...

Humans should not be victims of bad AI, so I co-signed this letter, coordinated by @openrightsgroup.bsky.social

www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releas...

Pull the plug

The access to hyperlinks increases the risk of users discovering uncomfortable truths

Windows & Edge, Android & Chrome dark patterns

Pots & Kettles

Whose in?

The Search Choice Alliance is a coalition of search engines dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their search engine of choice on Apple devices.

Perplexity powers its ‘answer engine’ with Azure OpenAI Service - Microsoft for Startups Blog What’s the next step in the evolution of AI chatbots? Perplexity is working on the answer, with an aim to evolve from “search engines” to “answer engines.”

No source but see this. www.microsoft.com/en-us/startu...

They were definitely using outside sources and as main (can't/shouldn't say which). Note we have a search API @mojeek so i woudl know ;)

Almost certainly not. Perplexity will have switched. Bing racked up their prices and restricted usage of Bing API with LLMs in mid-2023. Brave didn't have a search API then but have now.

"Request No. 7 seeks documents sufficient to show the types & quantity of data used to train certain models that OpenAI has developed or licensed for use in connection with any
potential or actual Generative AI Tool or AI Search Tool."

😂 that will reveal what GPT-4 was trained on.

Et toi Google? 🤡

This stops you leaving my (Elmo's X) walled propaganda garden

"How to make something people hate" from genius entrepreneur

You might argue it's now too easy to "make something people want". For example, small biz want leads and we now have more and more lead gen pimpers; selling data that is likely to be crap and unethically collected.

Let's "make something people value"

🤣

Unverified Propaganda as a Service.

Alphabet cash on hand for Q3 was $93B anyway

agreed

and very strong data sharing provisions for qualifying competitors

Indeed they don't

Is that what is meant by "term" in "Google may not release any other Google Browser during the term of this Final
Judgment absent approval by the Court."? So "(10) years from the Effective Date"

Please don't take a view on farmers until you have read this spot on piece.

Growing up with grandparents, who like James Rebank were Cumbrian famers, I know too well how they struggled back then. And it's gotten dramatically worse.

Very large non-EU technology firms have dominated our market by scaling fast; with $$$ to attract talent and land-grab

The United States now has:
• 45,020 reporters
• 275,550 public relations specialists

For every reporter, there are now six PR people.

(data via U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

we made a privacy and independence starter pack ft.

@session-app.bsky.social
@eff.org
@openrightsgroup.bsky.social
@vivaldibrowser.bsky.social
@mullvad.bsky.social
@grapheneos.org
@proton.me
@libreoffice.bsky.social
@bitwarden.bsky.social
@fightforthefuture.org + more

go.bsky.app/CfycNgV

As expected, Trump named Brendan Carr to chair the FCC. Carr is a big fan of Starlink and is vocal about the need to reform the protections that Section 230 gives big tech.

Here’s his recent thread about big tech, the “censorship cartel,” and his concerns about NewsGuard and fact checkers.