Mojeek @Mojeek@mastodon.social
- Website
- https://www.mojeek.com
- Search Engine Map
- https://www.searchenginemap.com
The alternative search engine that does what’s right, that values and respects your privacy, whilst providing its own unique and unbiased search results.
Joined Nov 2018
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Search engines are our main navigators to useful information on the Web, and yet very few people understand the work that goes into building a large-scale general search engine.
Let's change that... 🔍
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
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I've finished a blog post about Brave's false privacy. I give you arguments that will prevent yourself from falling for Brave’s marketing lies.
How Do Search Engines Work?
We've answered that question for you in an 11m video 📹👇
https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/9a89d16d-03e3-4bd5-83c9-6459e84e7abd
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"A team of amazing volunteers has created a huge open-source library of over 600 free-to-use icons for healthcare projects. Amazing effort to create a public good for the world." 😍 💊 💉
Project coordinated by Daniel Burka, who is asking the community to spread the word.
The first match of the Euros: Turkey 🆚 Italy, kicks off at 8pm GMT
You can now find all of the fixtures, start times, and view group stage tables on Mojeek, if that's your kind of thing ⚽
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Today, 5 years ago 12 people founded Nextcloud to create a complete Free and Open Source alternative to centralized proprietary cloud services and open core competitors.
Together we achieved a lot more than what we dreamed of. Thank you to everyone who is contributing! 💙
Because of Apple's privacy labels we recently had to revisit the Mojeek App.
Instead of just filling out the “Data You Collect” portion with a blank and considering the job done, we took this opportunity to give it an update: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/mojeek-app-improvements.html
Got a minute? We're looking for people who have experience searching the Web with Mojeek to answer a 10-question survey.
This will be used to help us improve the world's alternative search engine! Your time and responses are very much appreciated 🙏 👉 https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/S2LSME/
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Amazon's move to extend their moratorium on police use of facial recognition software is not enough. Let's not forget all the partnerships between Amazon Ring and police around the world that make Ring the largest civilian surveillance network we've...
Search engines are our main navigators to useful information on the Web, and yet very few people understand the work that goes into building a large-scale general search engine.
Let's change that... 🔍
https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/05/no-tracking-search-how-does-it-work.html
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Which #universities are on #Mastodon / Fediverse?
Welche #Universitäten sind im #Fediverse?
Official:
• @unihohenheim Uni #Hohenheim, #Germany
• @unijena Uni #Jena, Germany
Own server:
• https://mastodon.utwente.nl/about @utwente #UTwente, #Netherlands
• https://metu.life/about/ @Tuan #Metu, #Turkey
• https://mastodon.mit.edu/about @maxj @dukhovni #MIT, #USA
• https://mastodon.ocf.berkeley.edu/about @staff UC #Berkeley, USA
Students’ Committee:
• @astatu #AStA #TUBerlin #Berlin, Germany.
Any missing?
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- Don’t let the Government create a digital Police state https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/dont-let-the-government-create-a-digital-police-state/
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All you need to know about about Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency feature.
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/adtech-vs-ios-explained/
Looking for ways to support us? We are searching for some UX testers to help us identify ways to make the world's alternative search engine even better.
If you'd be happy to give some of your time, you can get in contact using the form linked below.
https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact?subject=Mojeek+UX+Testing
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Instagram for kids is a truly bad idea, also in regards to privacy: https://www.vox.com/recode/22385570/instagram-for-kids-youtube-facebook-messenger
If your kids need to communicate online, better make them familiar with privacy-friendly alternatives! https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/how-to-leave-google-gmail/
Today is great because...
a. ...it's a Friday
b. ...we have new servers 🙌
We talk a lot about the Big Tech surveillance capitalists, but what about "the unchecked middlemen of surveillance capitalism?"
From the doxxing, to the lobbying, to the labeling, an industry that is rotten to the core.
https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-data-brokers-are-a-threat-to-democracy/
Web Monetization is a JavaScript browser API that allows the creation of a payment stream from the user agent to the website.
This proposed W3C standard is now live on Mojeek; you can read more on our blog: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/04/web-monetization-on-mojeek.html
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- Adtech: An industry broken by design and by default https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/adtech-an-industry-broken-by-design-and-by-default/
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We shouldn’t have had to go to court. For a year, we’ve been fighting legal battles over the British government’s secretive NHS data deals with controversial ‘spy tech’ firm Palantir.
Today, we can announce an important victory.
- Website
- https://www.mojeek.com
- Search Engine Map
- https://www.searchenginemap.com
The alternative search engine that does what’s right, that values and respects your privacy, whilst providing its own unique and unbiased search results.
Joined Nov 2018
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!