Deleted.

What ever happened to Patrick? He hasn't been around for some time.

Kept trying to have OT as a place to make political putdowns but without reply.
Not sure when exactly, but I know when I came back in 2021 from taking 2020 off I'd had enough and decided to reply to PARF topics wherever someone brought them up, the convo could always be moved.
Seems others had the same idea.

He got agro that his PARF posts in OT were getting replied to by those that disagreed.
Considered it toxic that people would have other views on the people and subjects he brought up.
So he left the toxicity.
All he had to do was stop making creating PARF comments in OT...
He was his own toxin.

WDFifteen? His last posts were Mar 6 and Mar 7 of this year. That's not that long ago.

I see the difference. His posts this year have all been on the 911 tech board, and most of the posts from last year were on the parts for sale board.

Am i the only one that uses a host file?

https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm

It seems to block all the ads

I use it with the Onion browser, it’s like I don’t exist on the internet 😀

Welcome to 2005! ;) :D

just kidding.

I have "Pi-hole" rather than a hostfile.

I tried DDG for a while. Some searches were OK, and some sucked. I went back to google. I also have google configured to not track me which I'm sure does something.

Would you be willing to try something? I'm curious how good that browser is at anonymizing your usage. This EFF site analyzes your browser and tells you how uniquely identifiable it is: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

It says my browser is conveying 17.72 bits of information and is uniquely identifiable among 215,355 systems tested in the last 45 days. I use Firefox with an ad blocker and various privacy settings enabled.

Funny this just came back up. Just last week DDG shot themselves in the foot and lost a ton of users. They started suppressing some results based on their version of “misinformation”, which is not what the DDG user base was interested in.
https://sprinter-source.com/forums/index.php?threads/108059/

I get the impression that the website above requires java to work. I've tried it both with and without the "Test with a real tracking company" box checked. I get the animation, but it never finishes.

This one works without Java.

https://amiunique.org/

" Only 4 browsers out of the 425255 observed browsers fingerprints in our entire dataset (<0.01 %) have exactly the same fingerprint as yours."