Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-20 Thread Reco
On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:41:34AM +, Finn wrote: > arne wrote: > > I am allergic to ads. > > > > So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. > > I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. > > Have a local searx as search engine. > > > > Are you running Searx instance in your system locally? If so,

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-20 Thread Finn
arne wrote: > I am allergic to ads. > > So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. > I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. > Have a local searx as search engine. > Are you running Searx instance in your system locally? If so, how? Searx isn't packed for Debian yet. Probably installed using Docker

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
On 19-08-19 22:50, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2019 04:17:26 PM steef wrote: On 19-08-19 17:45, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2019 08:27:57 AM steef wrote: On 19-08-19 00:41, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Is that the problem you are concerned about? well,

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
On 19-08-19 17:45, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, August 19, 2019 08:27:57 AM steef wrote: On 19-08-19 00:41, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 05:27:07 PM steef wrote: On 18-08-19 22:04, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 20:50:05 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:19:37 -0400 > Celejar wrote: > > > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 > > wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > > > wrote: > > > > ..

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Joe
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:19:37 -0400 Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 > wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > > wrote: > > ... > > > >I certainly need to use numerous

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:23:44 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > > wrote: ... > >I certainly need to use numerous sites (bill > > paying, banking, etc.) that require JS to function. > > Th

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread steef
On 19-08-19 00:41, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 05:27:07 PM steef wrote: On 18-08-19 22:04, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote: --< snip >-- I have a similar setup as yours but am getting no popups from my browser (firefo

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Sunday, 18 Aug 2019 at 22:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work > with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some > exceptions, but very few. Ditto. My exceptions are my bank and flickr. All else I access via eww in

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-19 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 06:26:20PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 > wrote: [... on disabling javascript] > Question: is this due to a belief that such sites are (at least for > your use cases) at best marginally more useful than their non-JS > utilizing alternatives,

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread arne
I am allergic to ads. So I use an adblocker, ublock origin. I have squid and privoxy proxy's running. Have a local searx as search engine. 99.% of the visited sites are without ads, no tracking. Hope this helps. > Question: is this due to a belief that such sites are (at least for > your

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread ghe
On 8/18/19 5:16 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Yeah. And Firefox has a checkbox in the prefs to block pop-ups. I rarely see a pop-up any more. I have a hard time believing DDG is what's doing your pop-ups. It'd destroy their reputation.

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 19/08/2019 08:52, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: This is actually for me a filter criterion: if a site doesn't work with javascript, chances are high that I avoid it. I do make some exceptions, but very few. I use NoScript to enable JavaScript only where I want it. Kind regards, -- Ben Caradoc-Da

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 22:52:07 +0200 wrote: > On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:35:53PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > > > functionality of interest. I surf

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 22:04, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be h

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread tomas
On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 09:35:53PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > > functionality of interest. I surf with both disabled. I don't > > experience problems I see o

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Joe
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:20:08 -0500 Richard Owlett wrote: > > I personally find that JavaScript and cookies rarely provide *ME* any > functionality of interest. I surf with both disabled. I don't > experience problems I see often reported. YMMV It does vary indeed. It seems to me that hardly

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, August 18, 2019 01:16:59 PM nektarios wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 > > steef wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad > > DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be > > happy with the popup of

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 21:20, Richard Owlett wrote: On 08/18/2019 01:34 PM, steef wrote: On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', other

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 08/18/2019 01:34 PM, steef wrote: On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be happy with the popup of unwan

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread steef
On 18-08-19 19:16, nektarios wrote: On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: hi folks, last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be happy with the popup of unwanted ads which cannot be blocked perman

Re: duckduckgo

2019-08-18 Thread nektarios
On Sun, 18 Aug 2019 18:29:49 +0200 steef wrote: > hi folks, > > last days I get some slightly disturbing info about the browser_ad > DuckDuckgo. some say it's malicious 'malware', others seem to be > happy with the popup of unwanted ads which cannot be blocked > permanently: and the last thing m