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I don’t know. Depends on the website you visit lol. DNS, WebRTC, there are certain ways.

I don’t know, maybe your settings. Or your screen size. Or your IP address is leaking through something.

In all fairness, overdoing it is also telling. Like the reason why Tor browser has everything standardised is because you hide in a crowd.

But not reporting anything is making you stand out as well, if you report uniquely little information about yourself with some statistics and guesswork you can be fingerprinted as well.

Sometimes people try to hide everything about themselves not realising that makes them unique and easier to identify.

Possibly, I don’t use Piefed.

Oh, interesting. I haven’t made that work then. So far I keep seeing cross posts. Somtimes literally one after another.

yep, needs to get reported.

It would be nice if the cross posts got hidden, I wonder if any clients do that. It’s one of my favourite feature in Tusky to hide multiple boosts in your feed.

Ah yes, I’ve noticed lots of SEO consultant companies are trying to pivot into “we’ll help you to make AI scrape your website more so you show up in the AI search”.

I hadn’t seen the study before, thanks. That’s what I expected, honestly. I guess you could argue they are still building brand awareness, because people subconsciously note the brand as the source, but I don’t think that amounts to much.

Oh, definitely. They are reinventing the old portals concept. That’s why I don’t think Reddit actually wants to encourage the scraping (partly also because they sell data themselves to build LLM, but that’s another thing)

Yes

Are there any statistics on how many LLM chatbot users actually click on the source links?

The question was why more people don’t use Firefox. I answered.

have you heard of inference?

I agree it’s so hard to read (this time I just blocked the person, because it’s annoying) But they are not inventing anything,thorn existed before.

Not trying to make anyone change their web browser, so we all good.

I don’t really care. :)

Edit: There are other options than just Chrome and Firefox even without the forks. Most people just don’t wanna use them.

Source for that please? First time hearing that.

Edit: and web search didn’t give me any relevant results

no, but we weren’t talking about that. the topic was “why more people don’t use Firefox” I’m replying to you in Librewolf. I still don’t have to like Firefox, nor recommend it to people at this point.

pro-AI for starters, lots of people aren’t happy with that. (this is related to the AI, but started long before then: ) their insistence on focusing on anything else but the actual browser, Firefox also occasionally changes (privacy related) settings after upgrade (Edit: as reported by users online) or when they installed extensions remotely to people’s browsers as part of some kind of promo (I believe it was Mr. Robot?).

There might be more, but this is what I can think of from the top of my head.

Edit: typos

whataboutism? two competing companies can be bad