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Written by Athanasius on 2025-01-12 at 10:32

Yeah, I'll continue adblocking and putting all my use of Google web stuff in its own Firefox container, thanks.

https://mashable.com/article/google-digital-fingerprinting-user-tracking

[#]adblock #google #privacy #firefox

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Written by Athanasius on 2025-01-09 at 15:02

For anyone using Firefox and wanting to use Google search whilst avoiding the "AI Overviews" I worked up a simple "OpenSearch" engine that can be quickly installed.

This might also work in other browsers if they support this OpenSearch definition.

Find it on my website: https://miggy.org/misc/firefox-google-search-no-ai.html

[#]Firefox #Google #search #noai #googlenoai #googlewebview #aioverviews

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Written by Athanasius on 2025-01-09 at 14:27

Re: #AltText here, and elsewhere. First read https://www.kwbell.eu/mastonotes/alt-text-for-mastodon-images/.

I try to have a policy of not boosting a toot unless any media has alt text. I'll make some small exceptions depending on perceived importance of the topic and particular toot content. Sometimes I might just forget to check.

I've also been experimenting with replying to alt-text-less toots I otherwise like with my suggestion of alt text. I'm now aware of the Alt4You hashtag to use in such replies. I've had a pleasing amount of favorites and boosts on such replies :) .

I do see some truly awful AltText as well. It's not enough to just check there is AltText, you need to read it too. A complicated image, with text or not, that just has "Image of some people" isn't helping anything, for instance. I saw one the other day that was possible OCR'd and replaced a chunk of text in the middle with "...".

If you use any automated tools to generate AltText, proof read it !

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