Pluralistic: Too big to care (04 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14100831

"No, seriously. All those things Google couldn’t find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    They’ve stubbornly not gotten an SSL because they transact 0 data beyond band name searches.

    Even if sites do not store user account data, such as passwords, ALL websites, and I mean ALL, handle user data, because merely accessing pages (urls) is user data.

    Stubbornness is not a good reason not to setup SSL. Encryption should always be on, all the time, for everything.

      • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yes it does. You can derive the domain from snooping DNS lookups but the URL is part of the encrypted get header.