If communities can create their own money, they'd be loosing a lot of central power.
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Maybe this helps: https://searx.github.io/searx/user/search_syntax.html
It still has limited features compared to DDG, and it has a different syntax.
Don't !bangs work in Searx either? At least in searx.ebnar.xyz they do.
Use Librewolf and Tor 😉
Yes, that's one solution for a specific use case (-:
Nothing and no one is ever infallible. What I say is that the web as we know it is broken in that it has become a walled garden controllled by a few companies. And, yes, a lot of web3 doesn't appear to change that, it's just old wine in new bottles. We needed to discuss alternatives to different use case (payment and currency systems, how we monetize apps and other products, data hosting and sharing,. ..). Energy efficiency and affordability are important issues, but I want to have choice and don't want to become dependent on 5 or so companies in whatever I do. If that means that I have to pay,, I'd be fine with that.
What dies "better" mean? If everything is stored on a single server owned by this one company in Mountain View or so, is it better then?
Tor doesn't seem to help here if I got it right, because the data traffic is assigned to your phone number.
Does blockchain solve the double-spending problem? Can crypto currencies help devs (and possibly other creators) to monetize apps and other products?
I agree that blockchain is a solution to only a few problems, but can't this be said about all technologies?
The author seems to implicitly suggest to keep up the status quo and ignores the potential of a new tech (yes, there is also much empty hype around). Blockchain may or may not live up its potential, but this depends on the decision we as humans make rather than on the technology imho.
I don't know what to do with this article. It's just a sequence os simplified examples. But that's just my two cents.
"I think we can actually have a better regulated economy if we had all the data in real time, knowing what people are spending", he says.
Who is regulating? In whose interest?
Whose business is it to know "in real time" how much an individual is spending, for what, and why?
I almost never agreed with Stieglitz's views, and once again he seems to tell the establishment what they want to hear (very much like Keynes did some decades earlier). Even though I think that 99% of crypto is pure trash and will go bust, shutting everything down (how would this be done, btw?) is completely outrageous.
I'd say it depends on your threat model, but you may consider to always use a proxy, VPN or the like. Blacklight is good to check sites. There are also some websites to check for GDPR compliance, e.g.,. https://illegal.analyticsscanner.com or https://2gdpr.com
Which ones?