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I am a happy customer, and recently discovered their URL rewrite rules: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/r

I am a happy customer, and recently discovered their URL rewrite rules: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/redirects.html. This lets me automatically rewrite urls so reddit automatically opens in "old" reddit and boost docs open with the latest version of boost. Really feels like this search engine was built for people like me.

Lazare 3y ago
Also a happy customer, but I didn't know about that feature. That's quite useful; thanks for mentioning it.
mportela 3y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing the tip!
ijhuygft776 3y ago
There's a Firefox addon that does that too [0]... and another one made specifically for old.reddit [1] 0. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...
- Departed7405 3y ago
  Add-ons are terrible because they fingerprint you.Javascript allows for sharing of addons names. Having this niche add-on coupled with your device and browser type, IP, timezone this gives unique fingerprint. This comes from someone who used to have 50+ Firefox add-ons.
  - syncbehind 3y ago
    Why does this matter?
    - Diti 3y ago
      Because people who really need the privacy can be identified. Ideally, you want to help them so that their browsing don’t stand out (so that their browsing and yours are virtually the same).
      - syncbehind 3y ago
        I mean, isn't the only way to go about that to be completely vanilla or do what the masses do, then? Because if you start blocking all these cookies, canvas, javascript, etc- won't your browser's fingerprint be even more unique since you'd be the only one who's traffic data would be incomplete?
  - eviks 3y ago
    you could also use user scrits and save on addons?
  - blharr 3y ago
    Can you elaborate more on how Javascript allows for sharing of addon names? I didn't know this and wasn't able to find any references on it.
  - mminer237 3y ago
    "Plugins" like "This browser can natively view PDFs." are detectable via JavaScript. There's no way for a site to see Firefox add-ons.
    - zhfliz 3y ago
      it should be noted that this is different on Chrome https://browserleaks.com/chrome https://browserleaks.com/chrome
  - ijhuygft776 3y ago
    unfortunately, your fingerprint is more than likely unique either way: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Lazare 3y ago

Also a happy customer, but I didn't know about that feature. That's quite useful; thanks for mentioning it.

mportela 3y ago

Wow, thanks for sharing the tip!

ijhuygft776 3y ago

There's a Firefox addon that does that too [0]... and another one made specifically for old.reddit [1] 0. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ 1. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re...

Departed7405 3y ago
Add-ons are terrible because they fingerprint you.Javascript allows for sharing of addons names. Having this niche add-on coupled with your device and browser type, IP, timezone this gives unique fingerprint. This comes from someone who used to have 50+ Firefox add-ons.
- syncbehind 3y ago
  Why does this matter?
  - Diti 3y ago
    Because people who really need the privacy can be identified. Ideally, you want to help them so that their browsing don’t stand out (so that their browsing and yours are virtually the same).
    - syncbehind 3y ago
      I mean, isn't the only way to go about that to be completely vanilla or do what the masses do, then? Because if you start blocking all these cookies, canvas, javascript, etc- won't your browser's fingerprint be even more unique since you'd be the only one who's traffic data would be incomplete?
- eviks 3y ago
  you could also use user scrits and save on addons?
- blharr 3y ago
  Can you elaborate more on how Javascript allows for sharing of addon names? I didn't know this and wasn't able to find any references on it.
- mminer237 3y ago
  "Plugins" like "This browser can natively view PDFs." are detectable via JavaScript. There's no way for a site to see Firefox add-ons.
  - zhfliz 3y ago
    it should be noted that this is different on Chrome https://browserleaks.com/chrome https://browserleaks.com/chrome
- ijhuygft776 3y ago
  unfortunately, your fingerprint is more than likely unique either way: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/