Throwthrowbob (u/Throwthrowbob)

Throwthrowbob commented on Firefox 144.0 Includes Perplexity AI Search firefox.com/en-US/firefox... · Posted by u/pykello

Throwthrowbob · 2 months ago

This occurred without an update to Firefox, and against my explicit wishes in my user.js: user_pref("browser.search.update", false);

Not impressed.

Throwthrowbob commented on TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019) propublica.org/article/in... · Posted by u/lelandfe

godkernel · 2 months ago

great job. I used to use turbotax here in canada, until i figure it out that i could just fill it somewherelse for free.

Throwthrowbob · 2 months ago

I used https://www.canada.ca/en/services/taxes/income-tax/personal-... (or an equivalent page, in case it's shifted around) to look for options a couple years back. I was glad I had this list to look through. I believe I compared Wealthsimple, EachTax, and UFile.

Throwthrowbob commented on Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini? · Posted by u/jacquesm

yegg · 6 months ago

We also offer https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ which is just regular DuckDuckGo with AI features turned off.

Throwthrowbob · 6 months ago

How does one get the combined effects of multiple subdomains? For example, no AI, safe browsing, html, lite, as proposed by others?

Throwthrowbob commented on Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini? · Posted by u/jacquesm

alganet · 6 months ago

The normal DuckDuckGo also has their own AI assistant.

You need to use plain HTML DuckDuckGo in order to get rid of it.

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html

Throwthrowbob · 6 months ago

If you don't use Private Browsing (or the equivalent) or otherwise clear your browsing cache, DuckDuckGo's AI assistant can be disabled by:

- clicking the little gear to the right of the search types (near "Assist" and "Duck.ai")

- Click on "Manage" for AI Features

- Setting "Duck.ai" to Off

- Setting "Assist" to Never

To the right of the features above, I saw one can save their settings with a password, to the "cloud". This seems to be that you can enter this password when using DuckDuckGo elsewhere for your settings to be set again (or in Private sessions, though you'd have to re-enter the password on a new session).

Posted by u/Throwthrowbob 7 months ago

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Throwthrowbob commented on A look at Firefox forks lwn.net/Articles/1012453/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

Dwedit · 9 months ago

I read in a few places that LibreWolf's anti-fingerprinting features are breaking websites. One person complained that their meeting got scheduled incorrectly because the browser was messing with the user's time zone (for privacy reasons).

Throwthrowbob · 9 months ago

I remember being thrown off by this.

A user.js entry may help. user.js runs on startup of Firefox/Librewolf, so keep this in mind for your usage application.

the setting is: "privacy.resistFingerprinting", as in: user_pref("privacy.resistFingerprinting", true);

Throwthrowbob commented on Waterfox: Fast and Private Web Browser waterfox.net/... · Posted by u/doener

Throwthrowbob · 10 months ago

I had stopped using Waterfox in 2020 because of their association with System1, an advertising company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22338321

I learned today that Waterfox cut ties with System1 in July of 2023, so I'm glad to have an alternative to switch to. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36590056 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36606210

Throwthrowbob commented on Mastercard DNS error went unnoticed for years krebsonsecurity.com/2025/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

betaby · a year ago

MasterCard is not alone. On of the [smaller] Canadian banks and Canada Post had similar issues and yes, reply was also in a style "We have looked into the matter and there was not a risk to our systems". It seems that Canada Post fixed that eventually, while the bank fixed it ... and then re-introduced it recently again.

Throwthrowbob · a year ago

Would you please name the bank that had/has this issue?

Throwthrowbob commented on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback armaansahni.com/game/... · Posted by u/veesahni

Throwthrowbob · a year ago

I found that damage to either my character or the opponent occurs before what looks like the damage animation (red fill) occurs.

This is neat, thank you for sharing!

Throwthrowbob commented on Recall: Stealing everything you've ever typed or viewed on your own Windows PC doublepulsar.com/recall-s... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

Throwthrowbob · 2 years ago

Users are noticing: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://answers....

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