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   D to Mike Spencer   
   Re: terminal only for two weeks   
   28 Nov 24 10:56:54   
   
   From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Mike Spencer wrote:   
      
   >   
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   >> Brilliant! You are a poet Mike!   
   >   
   > I'm doubtful that poetry can be done in Perl.  Maybe free verse in   
   > Lisp.   
      
   Is it true that Lisp is the secret name of god?   
      
   >> Frogfind.com was a great start! I would love to have some kind of crowd   
   >> sourced html5->html1 - javascript - garbage script.   
   >   
   > Do note that Frogfind delivers URLs that send your click back to   
   > Frogfind to be proxied.  I assume that's how you get de-enshitified   
   > pages in response to clicking a link returned from a search.   
      
   Yes, I noted that.   
      
   > Here's a curiosity:   
   >   
   > Google also sends all of your clicks on search results back through   
   > Google.  I assume y'all knew that.   
      
   Haven't used google in a long time, I use ddg.gg or startpage.com instead.   
   As far as I can see based on a quick glance, they do no rewrites of the   
   urls.   
      
   > Isn't the weird?   
      
   I imagine it is done to record it and to help build your profile somehow, which   
   can then be sold to advertisers?   
      
   >> I also wondered if another approach might just be to take the top 500   
   >> sites and base it on that? Or even looking through my own history, take   
   >> the top 100.   
   >   
   > Now there's a project suitable for AI: train the NN to treat a response   
   > containing stuff you don't want ever to see as a failure.  Grovel   
   > repetitively through terabytes of HTML and finally come up with a   
   > generalized filter solution.   
      
   Maybe. I would be afraid of it becoming conscious and developing a will of its   
   own! ;)   
      
   >> Due to the bad development of the net, it seems like a greater and   
   >> greater part of our browsing takes place on ever fewer numbers of   
   >> sites.   
   >   
   >   
      
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