[kwlug-disc] Search engine that actually searches for strings

[Steve Izma]

On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 07:18:58PM -0400, Doug Moen wrote:
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Search engine that actually searches for strings
> 
> Update: youtube isn't working for me in Tor, I remember it used
> to work, but maybe Google is cracking down now.

I don't know about Tor browser, so at what point is it not
working? Can you get to the page but not play the video? What
happens if you feed the video URL to yt-dlp? Can you download it?

> Privacy is almost impossible on the mainstream (non-indy) web
> right now. I expect it will be completely impossible once
> Google finishes implementing their web browser DRM idea, in
> which all mainstream web sites will use a google API to
> cryptographically verify that you are running an unmodified
> version of Chrome with no extensions that Google disapproves
> of. This is necessary of course for security reasons, to
> protect users.

I'm having trouble thinking through all the parameters here.
What about text-based browsers like w3m?

I use Qutebrowser, which is Chrome-based. Does this mean that it
will stop working once Google's nefarious plans are completed?

If so, I guess I'm going to need to abandon the Web the way I
abandoned TV in 1970. The state of commercials on the Web is even
worse than that of TV back then anyway.

	-- Steve

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