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   webhat (webhat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 22:17:02 JST webhat

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   @dalias I haven't played with it in a while, and I believe it was also possible to set it from a website in JS with a xml config

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 22:17:01 JST Rich Felker

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     @webhat Yes, but that's awful for anyone who doesn't make websites. No way to trust that 3p ones just do a url with pattern subst without leaking tracking info and shit.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 22:19:00 JST Rich Felker

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     @webhat This was one of the most viscously user hostile changes Mozilla ever made. Taking away a simple tool even normies could understand to customize search to meet their needs, and replacing it with "trust the big websites, lol".

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Dec-2024 23:12:44 JST Rich Felker

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     @webhat And it's even more insulting to users that the code is all still there, just hidden behind an about:config var, and that they went to the trouble of making it invisible by default so you have to explicitly add the key, just as an extra fuck-you.