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This honestly should have been one of my first entries, but better late than never.

Permissions in their most basic form are the ways that your devices manage what apps can access what sorts of information. Managing what applications have access to that information is necessary for any sort of privacy.

The exact permissions your device recognizes depends on your OS, but generally they have the following

SMS

Contacts

Photos and Videos

Nearby Devices

Camera

Phone

Music and Audio

Call Logs

Microphone

Location

Calendar

Notifications

Account info

And several others

 

In general, no apps should have permissions that they don't need to work, and they should not have access to those permissions when not in use. However, even a standard look at your device's permissions history may not reveal everything, as certain pre-installed apps have access to all of your devices permissions and these may not appear by default, and these permissions have to be manually removed.

Now obviously I can't list all the permissions to watch for and disable on every device there is out there, so instead I'll link some videos here for your reference. Note I do not necessarily agree with all of the recommendations they give, and many times I go a few steps further to turn settings off, however I think they serve as a great baseline for how to navigate these types of situations, and individual preference can go from there.

 

iPhone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQE-OBW9hkk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HpwfWTucUM

Android(Samsung in particular)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Yr_BHQpBfw

 

Windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlwYKbEfFpM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0pXFwCkF-k  <- Disable Microsoft Recall is a must

Mac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wm6F66aLM0

 

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Posted by CoderDrag0n8,

Can you give a blog post on reverse image searches? I know it's not super crazy relevant to the blogs theme, but I only have google as a good reverse image search, and was wondering if you had any recs.

This is the kind of question I like being asked

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Can you give a blog post on reverse image searches? I know it's not super crazy relevant to the blogs theme, but I only have google as a good reverse image search, and was wondering if you had any recs.

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8 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

Can you give a blog post on reverse image searches? I know it's not super crazy relevant to the blogs theme, but I only have google as a good reverse image search, and was wondering if you had any recs.

Yeah, Google's web crawlers are the best when it comes to images and it's not close. I'd recommend Startpage.

It sources the results from Google anonymously so the end results should be the same, except for where Google gives more personalized results based on previous search history.

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4480404660628-Make-Startpage-your-default-search-engine-in-Firefox

I do end up having to do a lot of "prove you aren't a bot" when I use it, so keep that in mind.

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2 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Yeah, Google's web crawler's are the best when it comes to images and it's not close. I'd recommend Startpage.

It sources the results from Google anonymously so the end results should be the same, except for where Google gives more personalized results based on previous search history.

https://support.startpage.com/hc/en-us/articles/4480404660628-Make-Startpage-your-default-search-engine-in-Firefox

I do end up having to do a lot of "prove you aren't a bot" when I use it, so keep that in mind.

How do I reverse image search with Startpage?

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10 minutes ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

How do I reverse image search with Startpage?

Oh, you mean using an image as the search term.

Doing some research most of my previous browser search engine recommendations don't support that. It's not something I'm super familiar with, but I did find something.

It's called tineye and the fact that I only found out about it because of a Brandon Sanderson site is beyond funny to me

https://tineye.com/

Does this work?

CoderDrag0n8

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35 minutes ago, Frustration said:

Oh, you mean using an image as the search term.

Doing some research most of my previous browser search engine recommendations don't support that. It's not something I'm super familiar with, but I did find something.

It's called tineye and the fact that I only found out about it because of a Brandon Sanderson site is beyond funny to me

https://tineye.com/

Does this work?

I’ll see when I have time. I’m not on my computer rn

CoderDrag0n8

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On 5/28/2026 at 7:53 PM, Frustration said:

Oh, you mean using an image as the search term.

Doing some research most of my previous browser search engine recommendations don't support that. It's not something I'm super familiar with, but I did find something.

It's called tineye and the fact that I only found out about it because of a Brandon Sanderson site is beyond funny to me

https://tineye.com/

Does this work?

Yeah it does! Thanks.

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