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  • No JavaScript or ads. (…) Prevents Wikipedia getting your IP address.

    Wikipedia is light on JavaScript and has never had ads. You prevent Wikipedia from getting your IP address but instead reveal it to some random third party, combined with letting them know everything you look up.

    What the hell is the point of this. All this does it confuse people and decrease privacy.


  • Once you set it up it’s fine, but on first opening you have to click through a bunch of menus (no, I don’t want to share data, no I don’t want to sync my account, and so on). In other browsers it’s a small popup in the corner which you can ignore, and just google what you wanted to google. In edge they’re fullscreen and you have to click no on each one.

    Probably a rather unique problem because I regularly set up new machines, most people just go through it once and never see it again.