Browser developers can choose to fake user-agents. Brave uses a generic chrome user agent so it cannot be differentiated from regular Chrome.

Are they hinting at a pihole with their "It’s a bit more robust and lower latency than that Pi of yours dangling off the shelf by your cable modem."

How could it possibly have lower latency than something that's literally on your local network? Once it caches a request it's nearly instantaneous.

Sure, when you're right next to it, but I suppose if you're away from home and using your VPN to query your pihole, NextDNS might be faster. But yes I found the dig quite out of place, but for the reason that everyone I know who runs a pihole is not to run their own DNS resolver but (1) to block ads (2) not send more data than required to other services (a strike against NextDNS) (3) tinker, have more control (4) learn

> How could it possibly have lower latency than something that's literally on your local network?

I believe, what they mean is, NextDNS, given its global footprint, is lower latency than pi-hole in your local network connected via Tailscale over public Internet.

Sorry, author here. It got edited down a bit for brevity.

For one user never leaving your house, you're correct.

But once you have two or more users in different cities (or you're traveling), then your Pi at home will almost always lose compared to a geo-replicated service.

At that point there will be very little content for the browser to scrape, because most content will be behind a paywall or a subscription.

I don't know which rock you're living under but Apple users do this way way more often to validate their purchase.

Ok.

For Hindus, claiming everything in the subcontinent as their own seems like a favorite passtime. Jainism, Buddhism are not part of Hinduism and never were.

I think most people would agree that Buddhist doctrines first originated within a Hinduism-informed general milieu, and they can only be understood comprehensively in this light. Whereas Jainism seems to have developed in parallel with Vedic religion, and to have shared some of the same underlying concepts. Whether this means either are "part" of Hinduism probably depends on whom you ask.

There are thousands of sects of Hinduism and most still list themselves as such until the British came in

The word Hindu itself is an exonym. What you are doing is playing language games by conflating everything Indian with Hindu.

Wouldn't radomized pixelation without using the actual textual data in the background be enough?

A tool where you can choose the background color and the text color. The pixalation tool then overlays the blur effect with random characters.

That should work, given than the result doesn't have any actual input from the original data (except width of the text) and completely opaque over the actual text.

I imagine that would be the same as a black fill, just in a different color with noise.

I've used the original image data as a fill, but scaled down, so you get a mosaic effect. Then I randomise the tiles in that mosaic and then I blur. The result is that it seems like the original data was redacted but in reality the original data has been scrambled to such an extent that it can no longer be retrieved.

A quarter century later, statute of limitations expired, systems long gone and replaced with entirely different vendors/technology, nobody cares except you.

Phone numbers and emails are worth more

You can also use a privacy redirect extension to do it automatically.