June 7, 2022
Internet Explorer Nostalgia [12]
Hey Google, find me browsers that respect people's privacy. Zero results found? Ouch. Also, Seth Green is being a weenie about NFTs. And layoffs serve as a friendly reminder that companies are not your friend.
Internet Explorer Nostalgia
Episode: 12 Published: 06/07/2022
Stories
IT’S A ���SEARCH ENGINES AND BROWSERS ARE NECESSARY AND CURRENTLY STILL BAD��� ROUNDUP!!!
Links:
- DuckDuckGo dinged for passing Microsoft trackers through their browser app
- These mailers were delivered through the EDDM service of the USPS
- Brave���s tonedeaf ad campaign is still getting roasted on twitter
- The official Brave stance on the effort seems to be
- The EFF has a good site that talks about browser fingerprinting, and gives you a way to see it in action for yourself
- Kagi is an interesting new player in the search engine space that is still in beta
- Searx lets you host your own private instance of a search engine
Lightning Round
- Seth Green can���t make a show because he thinks his stolen NFT is THAT important
- Can you actually, like, own stuff, man?
- Microsoft continues innovating by renaming a bunch of stuff and putting it in a folder
- Lotsa layoffs with more on the way
- Google brings us right back to Hangouts by merging Meet and Duo into just Meet
- CloudNativeCon and KubeCon EU Highlights
Intro and outro music by James Bellavance