nah, new wave was very 80s, I’d divide the 90s between grunge and rave

We are probably just completely out of touch with youth culture

I feel you.
I recommend checking photopea.com, it’s a very light photoshop webversion that can do almost everything photoshop can do, a very cool tool.

As a life-long pirate, having full MS Office, Macromedia and Adobe packages weren’t ever a problem, but one day I decided to start using FOSS stuff… and man, getting into GIMP was damn painful, oh, the horror!
I’m very glad for photopea.com when I need to do some quick stuff, but for GIMP, this guy here made a very cool setup to help us Photoshop users https://github.com/Diolinux/PhotoGIMP

I just want to say I disagree about the decline, I think there was a time there was huge decline indeed, first there were too much shitty autogenerated and bait content getting high in the index, then they shoved more and more sponsored results and early filter bias were shitty, but I believe it all improved greatly in later years, specially with AI search, Google indeed manages to give you most relevant stuff on top now, and most of times it will cover all you are asking, I find the difference from other engines noticeable, the problem is that Google is fucking cancer…
I mostly use Starpage, sometimes results aren’t too good and I go to DuckDuckGo. I sometimes use Leta and Brave Search as well, but there are times I need to Google, especially for shopping.

owning them libs

I asked them exactly that hehe
So, technically the sites you are redirecting from will never know you tried to access them and the addon is not interacting with any page, but the dev didn’t address/think of probing. I don’t have enough tech knowledge to confirm the addon won’t react to anything, thus making itself known. I don’t know which probing techniques there are and how all those resist-fingerprint and sandboxing settings from privacy-conscious browsers work against it… it does, however, sound like a sophisticated and resource-consuming method that I don’t think they would be using on regular internet unless they have specific targets, so if they have such probing techniques they are probably using it on IPs going through the TOR network (and you shouldn’t use any addon on Tor anyway).
It’s all about your threat model, if you just want to avoid regular tracking and profiling the addon should be fine, now if you are afraid of some sophisticated and resourceful threat actors targeting you, don’t take your chances with any addon.

I use libredirect.github.io to not have to worry about clicking links

If you use some WFP manager you can block all incoming connections and also block all OS connections… I basically only let my browser communicating with the internet, the rest has no business online.

Oops, I forgot to mention the OS, it’s Win11 (I edited the main post now).

thanks, going to try it :)

Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

I don’t know much about Lemmy and I’m new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it’s actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn’t like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on… remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn’t want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

I feel like the Fediverse has even more thought police than regular social media.

If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp… or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord…

update: Lumo sucks.

If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
Probably soon they are making it that you can’t use Windows offline though lol

But up until recently you could download packages and utilities directly from their site, now you are forced to do it through Microsoft Store. I just started this new Win11 laptop and right after debloating the shit out of it I noticed the updates didn’t install HEIC and AV1 codecs and there was no way for me to install them without getting Microsoft Store back, so I restored it and downloaded them and then removed Microsoft Store… guess what? Removing it removed the downloads as well lol

maybe the guy is just brown and afraid of the ICE?
being brown is a dangerous activity nowadays.