Posts Tagged ‘disable’

Block Spotlight from sharing your searches with Apple

Written by iassael on . Posted in computing, general, macosx

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How to restore privacy:

Disable “Spotlight Suggestions” and “Bing Web Searches” in System Preferences > Spotlight > Search Results.

Safari also has a “Spotlight Suggestions” setting that is separate from Spotlight’s “Spotlight Suggestions”. This uses the same mechanism as Spotlight, and if left enabled, Safari will send a copy of all search queries to Apple.

You’d be forgiven for thinking that you’d already disabled “Spotlight Suggestions”, but you’ll also need to uncheck “Include Spotlight Suggestions” in Safari > Preferences > Search.

Advanced users can download the python script: fix-macosx.py to take care of the changes. (first install pyobjc using pip: pip install PyObjC)

Source: https://fix-macosx.com/

Disable New Facebook Messenger on Android

Written by iassael on . Posted in android, computing, general

trash-can-in-silver-with-the-lid-at-side_17-510212705Most of the new devices are now forced to install Facebook Messenger.

FB Messenger is the most unfriendly app I have used as you cannot disable it and also I don’t want to be available for everybody all time…

In order to keep the good old messages that you could open whenever you wanted or at least had the choice you can follow the steps:

1) Uninstall official FB Messenger (yeah it feels nice!)

2) Go to Settings -> Security and enable “Unknown sources”

3) We will trick the FB app check by using a dummy app with the same name “com.facebook.orca” but with nothing inside!

4) Download http://blog.ic3man.gr/Facebook.Messenger.Deactivator.apk

( 4.optional You can also compile it yourself from https://github.com/iassael/facebook-messenger-deactivator )

5) Install it! Tada! Now you can be peaceful and notificationless again…

Cheers~

Disable Google Similar Results

Written by iassael on . Posted in computing, general

The following solution is for google chrome and uses the “verbatim” search tool to acomplish the good old functionality.
1) Go to options and edit your Search Engines
2) Add a new search engine with the following code
{google:baseURL}search?q=%s&{google:RLZ}{google:acceptedSuggestion}{google:originalQueryForSuggestion}{google:assistedQueryStats}{google:searchFieldtrialParameter}{google:searchClient}{google:sourceId}{google:instantExtendedEnabledParameter}ie={inputEncoding}&tbs=li:1
3) Set it as default
4) And let the good old times roll …