Having my messeges go through a third party does not seem like the best idea for me but thanks to your post I am finally about to get into matrix chat and set up my own bridges on my home server.
I can’t force people off these platforms but at least I can get these apps off my phone.
Mostly Qwant, occasionally ddg, mojeek and others, including my own instance of SearxNG (google doesn’t respond to it most of the time).
Thanks to enshittification of google, there is not much difference between it and other search engines so being unable to use it via alternative frontends doesn’t make that much of a dofferencd.
I should probably use searxng more often…
It’s not much of a loss because google search results are shit anyway.
I’ve been using it on Linux for months and didn’t notice anything weird going on. It’s not my main browser though, so your mileage may vary.
No.
I use Firefox Focus ob iOS and AdGuard DNS.
Check out Helium. It’s what Brave was supposed to be. (And it uses Chromium.)
Did whisper improve since last year?
Last time I tried to generate subtitles for a German TV show, the subtitles were more inacurrate than what I would have written down (German is my third language and I struggle to understand anything that isn’t voiceovered) and timing was so bad I didn’t even bother to generate subtitles for the second episode.