Post #2202608
2026-04-30 23:13 UTC
Context: I'm googling advice on referencing, and the AI overview takes it upon itself to suggest templates of how to reference (helpful, I guess) - but then it uses my exact university and it just makes your skin crawl because it really drives home how much you're being watched. By machines.
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@JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2026-05-01 01:26
Dunno if this helps you, but in web pages AFAIK the tracking usually comes from javascripts running in that particular page. Google, Facebook, etc. If you allow those to run, then such services can track you in various ways. I run uMatrix to specifically allow only the JS's I want to run, and of course, some of the ad-blocker extensions should do similar, I think.
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@snek_boi@lemmy.ml 2026-05-01 00:20
Damn. That’s creepy. Have you considered using alternative search engines? Startpage? Kagi? DDG?