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alcideon The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting

Orion Browser (Kagi Product) prevents fingerprinters from running by default.

https://help.kagi.com/orion/privacy-and-security/preventing-...

Mozilla has offered to call the OP, too. I’m curious on the outcome.

alcideon AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

Integrity of words and author intent is important. I understand the intent of your hypothetical but I haven’t run into this issue in practice with Kagi News.

Never share information about an article you have not read. Likewise, never draw definitive conclusions from an article that is not of interest.

If you do not find a headline interesting, the take away is that you did not find the headline interesting. Nothing more, nothing less. You should read the key insights before dismissing an article entirely.

I can imagine AI summarizes being problematic for a class of people that do not cross check if an article is of value to them.

alcideon AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

Kagi News has been pretty accurate. Source information is provided along with the summary and key details too.

AI summarizes are good for getting a feel of if you want to read an article or not. Even with Kagi News I verify key facts myself.

alcideon How I bypassed Amazon's Kindle web DRM

Does a GitHub archive exist? It sure is something to see code ebb and flow at the whims of the few.

alcideon Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

“We're sorry but vp.net doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue.”

alcideon FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American'

What were your motivations? How has this impacted your daily life? I’m curious to know anything you are willing to share.

alcideon Court strikes down US net neutrality rules

Could you expand on this further? It would really provide some hope for me if there was a silver-lining. I’m concerned that this is a step in an inevitable beginning to the corporatization of the internet.

alcideon AI hype is over. AI exhaustion is setting in

I subscribed to Kagi Ultimate but I feel I’m underutilizing it’s functionality. What are some use cases you would encourage me to try with the models? What are some key takeaways with Ultimate you discovered in your testing?

alcideon Why US renters are taking corporate landlords to court

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fix...

The FTC posted an article about algorithmic price fixing not too long ago too.

alcideon Anger is eliminated with the disposal of a paper written because of provocation

You made my entire week. Years ago, I stumbled on a song of theirs and could never find it again. After recognizing the voice, I went through the catalogue and there it was: Peach, Plum, Pear. Thank you!