Commentary Don't Trust TrustPilot - Just marketing spam. I saw this coming for a while. But today I saw someone who had 11 "reviews" on TrustPilot, all for different companies, and every one included a voucher code. "Sign up and you get XXX off". Of course they also get some cash if you sign up too. Is this
Promotions Shrap - Get change back digitally. Shrap | Change for the betterPay and be paid in cash, with a convenient app and card for the change.ShrapI dunno. This is something about coins, and it has an app.
Scraps Brave - No Ads. Gives Money. Secure, Fast & Private Web Browser with Adblocker | Brave BrowserThe Brave browser is a fast, private and secure web browser for PC, Mac and mobile. Download now to enjoy a faster ad-free browsing experience that saves data and battery life by blocking tracking software.Brave BrowserThe future of the internet?
News Links Contextual Advertising Increases Revenue New data shows publisher revenue impact of cutting 3rd party trackersThis note shares new data on publisher revenue impact from switching off 3rd party ad tracking.Brave BrowserJohnny Ryan
Commentary Say "NO" To The Internet I got an offer to get a cheap 250Mbps internet connection. After some initial excitement I had to ask myself "Do I need the internet at all?" I did some research into why the UK government is pushing for gigabit internet to 90% of the UK (https://www.gov.uk/
Commentary Imagine Curve are Looking for more money to pay the directors Another worthless company that is fetishising spending money with a piece of plastic (or metal if you are super-ridiculous) is asking for yet more investment*. No doubt they will offer their child-investors some pathetic status symbol to go with taking their pocket money away - I'd favour a 3 by
WebLinks Check if website is safe - McAfee Browse safely and steer clear of online dangers | McAfee WebAdvisorMcAfee WebAdvisor is your trusty companion that helps keep you safe from threats while you search and browse the web. WebAdvisor safeguards you from malware and phishing attempts while you surf, without impacting your browsing performance or experience.McAfeeThere is Chrome/
My Websites Good URLs? GSC tells me these are some of the 62 so-called "Good URLs" on my Charity List. What is so special about these when all the 160,000 other pages are exactly the same? https://charitylist.ab3.uk/1123524/ https://charitylist.ab3.uk/1150788/ https://charitylist.ab3.uk/515591/ https://charitylist.
Commentary The Finest Tobacco By Post Very reliable and friendly. (You might get some free sweets at Christmas too.) Welcome to Johnny’s TobacconistShop is open 12pm-1pm Mon-Fri for click and collect due to the latest restrictions so please bear with us. Website is running as normal.Johnny's Tobacconist
Commentary "Famous Tennis Players" are censored on Bing in UK [ Edit: Bing fixed this 2021-05-12 ] If you search for "Famous Tennis Players" using Bing in the UK you see: "Your current Bing SafeSearch setting filters out results that might return adult content." What's more you can't turn this off in the UK because: "Your country or region requires a strict
COTD Living Springs - Charity of the Day 2021-May-09 Living Springs Charity InformationInformation about Charity 1082726. To relieve those who are young, old, poor, sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped, homeless or otherwise in conditions of need, hardship...UK Charities List
Commentary The delusion of popularity. Perhaps this is something that can only be said by someone who doesn't fit into the "popular" bracket. But I'm sure there are educated people who don't become caught up in their own fame. There are people all over the Internet talking nonsense, and this nonsense is lapped up by
Commentary Metager - No Ads Search Really liking Metager at the moment. Getting good results ;-) Metager, as you might guess, is a meta-search engine; one that combines results derived from various sources including: Scopia (whatever that is? scopia.co ?), Bing, and OneNewspage. Presumably they pay for access to these companies search data, and as such
WebLinks e OS Email Server Configuration for your /e/ email account. Email Configuration - e Foundation - deGoogled unGoogled smartphone operating systems and online services - your data is your dataEmail configuration You can use your @e.email email account to log in at: https://e.email or https://ecloud.global/ Lots of different email
Scraps Download Something If you need to download something, just to test downloading ( like I do right now) try this: 1MB of zeros/null bytes
Scraps I used Bing for a month. Generated £5 for charity. Support the National Autistic Society with Bing
Commentary Shall I stand by my beliefs? I hate advertising. I hate advertising supported digital services therefore. (But they do have great products, some of them.) Advertising is bad for everyone. The products you buy cost more because of advertising costs. Company A only advertises because Company B does. Company A only advertises on Facebook/Twitter/Google
Toots for Me AB3 on Mastodon aka The FediverseAB3 (@[email protected])0 Toots, 1 Following, 0 Followers · On the Fediverse...mas.to
Scraps WebSite Rating: notes.ab3.uk https://nibbler.silktide.com/en/reports/notes.ab3.uk No rating at time of writing. Maybe one day....
Scraps Website Rating: charitylist.ab3.uk Nibbler - test your websiteNibbler tested charitylist.ab3.uk and gave it an overall score of 7.7 out of 10. This website is rated highly for Accessibility but wasn’t so good at Marketing.Nibbler7.7/10 Not bad. :-)
WebLinks Re-flash FairPhone 3 back to Stock ROM/Original OS [HOWTO] revert your Fairphone 3 with /e/-OS back to Stock ROM using Debian based GNU/LinuxMission: To revert back to original or stock ROM provided by OEM for your Fairphone 3 smartphone. Prerequisites: A Fairphone 3 smartphone running /e/OS with complete backup of important data on a PC
Published Software Omnii - Private Messaging I like the sound of this... "Omnii is a privacy-conscious Social Media and Messaging application that aims to keep the user in control of their data and, therefore, does not rely on targeted advertisement or the selling/exploitation of user data to make money". Omnii™ - Private Social Media &
Published Software RFYOZ Password Generator See: https://notes.ab3.uk/simple-word-based-password-generator-for-android/ My IPFS pages are all broken...
WebLinks My Web Portal Starting here: Link Directorieshttps://botw.org.uk/ Search Engineshttps://www.google.com/ (a little known search engine) https://www.bing.com/ https://www.whaleslide.com/ https://www.qwant.com/ Oh.. I forgot... we don't use those anymore. Anti-Virushttps://www.malwarebytes.com/ Web Statshttps://www.statcounter.com/ Software Companieshttps://www.oracle.