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Ooh go on, tell us all about your homelab where you run multiple proxmox servers and have pi-hole DNS blocking for your whole family.
New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
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Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
#12Good feature. Searching an image is already an older mode of Google Lens. Chrome currently allows you to search any region, which is more useful for searching something from a video frame or a portion of an image. Not sure why Firefox would implement the older version.
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Just because it's repetitive doesn't make any of it less true.
Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
#14When possible, don't use anything from Google. And this is a clear move from Google. Take this money and put this on the browser...
If the alternative is Microsoft or Meta or Amazon or OpenAI or X, then I'll happily use Google.
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#15Why did mozilla put so much work into an extension system if they were just going to shove random sponsored functionality into the base install?
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#16I generally prefer to use https://tineye.com/ because it just reverse searches instead of trying to do some voodoo with the image.
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#17Thankfully Firefox is FOSS, which means distro maintainers and users can patch out such anti-features. In the meantime, I'll stick to my Arkenfox user.js.
This isn't really an antifeature. If someone has Google as the default search engine I doubt they are going to be against this. If you don't have google as the default you won't even see this.
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#18If this sticks around I hope (and mostly trust) that they'll make it configurable across different image search tools. Other than that this seems... fine. Good even. It's a nice to have feature that isn't in the way and presumably doesn't share any data at all until you explicitly tell it to.
Any search engine can implement it themselves through an extension, though?
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#19When possible, don't use anything from Google. And this is a clear move from Google. Take this money and put this on the browser...
If the alternative is Microsoft or Meta or Amazon or OpenAI or X, then I'll happily use Google.
The alternative is to use a meta-search engine which uses all of the above without feeding these data parasites any personally identifiable data. There's plenty of those to choose from; I use SearXNG [1] which forwards my queries to a number of engines and presents the results - and with that I mean the actual results, clear from tracking links etc. It is not perfect in that there's a persistent issue with search engine timeouts which is quite irritating but I'd rather wait a few more seconds for search results than feed the data parasites.
Re: New in Firefox: Visual search powered by Google Lens
#20I've been using this extension to have this functionality for years: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-search-...