Oh yeah, the whole article could be reductively summed up as

“DeepSeek and all the other LLM services are almost as bad as each other, but we think deepseek is worse…because the Chinese government are known for doing bad things”.

The title is factual, if a little clickbaity.

Obviously keystrokes you submit to a website are submitted to the website.

This though, it’s not technically accurate, a lot of forms and input are done client side and then the resulting information is parceled up and sent to the server.

The actual keystroke data isn’t normally sent.

Though this article doesn’t go in to what kind of keystroke data is sent, if it was something more than just which keys in which order then that’s perhaps an indicator that it’s actively being collected for a reason, rather than just incidentally.

If you want to get really paranoid about such things it’s known that you can you can do interesting things with actual keystroke data.

Also, afaict none of the the non-chinese services have specified that they don’t do this.

i mean…yes? that is generally how search platforms work.

I wouldn’t recommend anybody use any google based stuff directly (or at all, if possible) but if you do, then sending the search query is generally what would happen.

If you’ve got nothing to hide you don’t have to worry ?

See, now that’s a more thorough explanation of your position.

I disagree with pretty much all of your assertions (though the witch hunt stuff can be true sometimes) , but at least i know I’m disagreeing with an opinion formed using the whole of the information provided.

This “context” added doesn’t move my post a centimeter IMO.

It shows you read the initial information in it’s entirety and still came to the conclusion you did.

That removes the possibility of responses such as “Did you even read the initial tweet?”.

Well… it should remove that possibility, in practice it just means you can safely ignore those responses because clearly the people making those responses haven’t read your response in it’s entirety.

If all he said was literally “i approve of this pick for this position” you’d be correct.

What actually happened was he approved of the pick and also claimed the republicans are now actually the party that stands for the “little guy”.

Then followed up with a non apology that claimed what he said was not intended to be a “political statement”.

by all means, argue that you think there’s a fuss over nothing, but if you leave important context out seemingly because it doesn’t suit your narrative it weakens your argument substantially.

In my setup only three of them are altered from the default values.

• privacy.resistFingerprinting
• privacy.resistFingerprinting.block_mozAddonManager
• privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing

“privacy.resistFingerprinting” is the one i was talking about specifically, which works for me in the scenarios detailed in my response.

It’s been a while since i setup this install but i know i used the arkenfox scripts as a baseline.

I have no idea how much deviation i have for the default baseline so YMMV greatly.

I only mentioned that setting because it’s one i use to fix my specific problems and it might help as a starting point.

There is a privacy setting in firefox that causes this for me on most websites that require photo upload, not all sites, but consistently the same sites.

Ebay for instance, most reverse image searches etc.

in about:config - > privacy.resistFingerprinting

It might not be that setting specifically, but turning that setting to “false” does fix this for me.

There might be a more granular setting that does the same job but i don’t know of it.

Not that i’m recommending turning that off, that’s your call.

I’ve also not tried it on this site specifically.

“News outlet” might be the most generous interpretation I’ve ever seen.

While i agree with this and i do block people, regularly, if you aren’t paying attention this is exactly how you get echo chambers.

Not suggesting i have a good solution, because i don’t.

Best i can do is try to differentiate between “opinion that is not my own” and “flagrant arsehole”.

I like to think it’s the difference between good faith and bad faith arguments, but that still assumes i can tell the difference consistently.

Shit is hard yo.