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How to secure your phone before attending a protest (www.theverge.com)
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[โ€“] roofuskit@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Smile only existed to bleed referral revenues away from search engines. Once enough people started using their app directly they no longer needed smile to make them skip referrers.

[โ€“] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Which search engines would do that?