@ai6yr I believe #HackerNoon (and maybe the EFF) released a #chromium plug-in that removes SERPs to paywalls in Google, but last I checked it didn't work when using #StartPage or other resources which, sadly, rendered it virtually useless.
Nothing for #Firefox ESR though, and it didn't work well in #Vivaldi when I tried it. Maybe those who ride the MS Windows train have a different experience.
But imagine, instead of having to say "paywall" all of the time, to alert people, we just install tools that completely vaporize sites like the Las Vegas Review Journal and the New York Times, and interdict before their URLs can be displayed in SERPs across any browser or search site?
I guarantee you that no one would miss them. They become immediately irrelevant because they no longer exist to anyone - so their news... Isn't.
Information gathered from the AP Wire and other sources comes from elsewhere instead of those decrepit privacy mining operations, and it's still better up to the minute information than we had when most all of the people were still searching on #Yahoo and #AltaVista.
Sanitized search data and paywall blockers is a great step to initiate for ourselves to break the back of encroaching orwellian dystopia.
I'm interested in hearing about solutions from others that implement or partially achieve these goals to thwart industrial surveillance, and please feel free to boost + sharing is caring, tracking is stealing.
#tallship #paywall #ENG #publishing #data_mining
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