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@privacybrowser @iron_bug Thanks for flagging this! We've looked into it and it should be working now.

Linux-based mobile Open Source alternatives to Android and iOS
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Want to fine-tune your results page? You can switch it up so that Mojeek outputs 10, 20, 30, or even 40 results for each query.

Visit the Mojeek Preferences page to try it out: https://mojeek.com/preferences

Internet Archive, 25 years old today, wonderful 👏👏👏 here's to 25 more!

Warning sign Job alert! Warning sign We are looking for an enthusiastic and smart developer who will contribute to and lead our small web development team.

Check out the job here; apply by August 15th: https://www.mojeek.com/about/careers/web_team_lead_developer.html

Mojeek search is back up & running. It's the first power failure to affect us since moving to the data centre, >10 years ago. Some search results may not show snippets until all our infrastructure recovers; a small number of the servers were affected by the power loss.

Update: Mojeek search is down after a power trip at our data centre partner Custodian. This was caused by a component failure in a new power chassis being installed. Power is now restored and further work is in progress. Some of our servers have been affected.

Attention Mojeek users. Search is currently not working. The rest of our site is OK. We are investigating this urgently.

It's the first time in several years we have been down. Further updates as soon as restored or other information to report. Thank you for your patience.

@savely @privacybrowser Hey Savely, any chance of getting some more information to: https://www.mojeek.com/about/contact specifically your IP so we can check it out?

Our CEO has written to Sundar Pichai after his BBC interview.

We share concerns about threats to internet freedom, though we don't see 'AI to AI' on how search is done.

Will Google work with us to protect human rights? (Spoiler: the answer is no).

https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/07/an-open-letter-to-sundar-pichai.html

@privacybrowser Hey Soren, this should not return a 403 anymore: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=site%3Astoutner.com+%22privacy+browser%22

A brilliant piece on Identity and Age Verification ... "all that will happen is the kids start using VPNs, Tor, and 4Chan." https://alecmuffett.com/article/14828

The road to cyberhell is paved with good intentions. The UK #OnLineSafety Bill is the proposed map for the road. Coming to your country too, if you are not already on it.

As you would expect we say; yes, ban biometric surveillance. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/europe-ai-biometrics

Consumers, businesses, and democracy are harmed by surveillance advertising.

With 13 other privacy-first companies, we sent a joint letter encouraging regulators to take action.

https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/07/time-to-ban-surveillance-based-advertising.html

#BanSurveillanceAdvertising

@older @privacybrowser Indeed. But every character is prefixed with %D0 and that was a signal showing up in bot attacks. We might have been overzealous in our defences, or even messed up. As you saw and pointed out it was killing human queries. Anyway, apologies about that and thanks for highlighting the issue.

@privacybrowser @older Many thanks for your input and persistence. We learned that Cyrillic characters have a specifc URL encoding which we were not handling appropriately.