Use duckduckgo.com to search "restaurants near me"
Unless they use a complex system to look up geolocation for all queries and forward an approximate version of that to Bing, then Bing is getting IP addresses and search terms.
lefthandeddude
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If you do searches on DDG, which is powered by Bing, you get responses that are relevant to your IP-based location, which means something about your IP is being passed to Bing aka Microsoft. That's how.
It's duckduckgo. Search duckduckgo.com with the term "restaurants near me." You'll often get responses that are close to your IP location.
That couldn't happen unless DDG passes your IP address on to Bing. It's possible they censor part of the IP and only pass part of it to Bing, but probably not.
(Go ahead! Try it!)
Since Bing sells to data brokers, data brokers know your IP is linked to a search for rambutan, even without fingerprinting your browser.
I'm not calling duckduckgo.com a honeypot... I'm also not calling it not a honeypot. But it knows too much for something supposedly private.
Any closed source firefox extension that has access to the browser display could be parsing the texts and selling it and your IP and other identifiers to data brokers. It's part of how these extensions are profitable.
Cloudflare also does highly advanced fingerprinting and has a script called cloudflare insights, so it seems likely that any cloudflare activity is generating marketing data.
As an LGBT person, I am very scared of any religion that has as part of their religious laws that people like me should be put to death. I am scared of Christianity, I am scared of Islam, all of it scares me. Perhaps that makes me Islamaphobic. Mamdani is a good person and he supports diversity and genuinely cares about people. He is not homophobic, he supports LGBT people, and if every Muslim were like him, I would not be scared of Islam at all.
Accepting Muslims can lead to negative impacts on women's rights and LGBT rights. This is not speculation. One example is Canada: Canada had a very relaxed and liberal policy towards bringing in Muslim immigrants. Eventually, some of these Muslims started protesting, along with other religious conservatives, against Trans people. Here is an article about this if you don't believe me:
So, I don't think it's Islamaphobic to believe that more acceptance of Muslims can lead to political movements by Muslims that are more conservative. The most conservative Muslim movement would be Sharia law, in which women can't read or learn math or do anything and in which someone like me would be stoned to death. To say it's irrational to be concerned about conservative Muslim movements taking root in areas that make Muslims comfortable, when Canada brought in many many Muslims who then protested against LGBT people, is ignoring reality.
I'm not a Republican. I like Mamdani,I would have voted for him if I were living in NYC. I don't actually think this tweet on Xitter is inherently racist.
Most people believe 9/11 was caused by radical Muslim jihadists hijacking planes and slamming them into buildings. Radical Muslim jihad still exists. It is not like there are zero radical Muslims out there who want to destroy Western society, subjugate women, kill all homosexuals, kill all atheists, and institute Sharia law. That is not actually a made up trope of the greedy right to suppress the lower classes, that is in fact reality. There are still women not allowed to learn math in some some countries.
The fear Gulianai has, which I do not think is irrational to consider, is that by voting for a liberal Muslim, it's going to lead to policies that make it easier for radical jihadists to take root in America, that somehow a liberal Muslim mayor may embolden radical Muslims with extremist views or make it easier for radicals to take root within more insular Muslim communities in NYC, even if it's just a result of a cultural shift in which people do not fear radical jihadists. (This is not my opinion of what will happen!) I do not believe this view is inherently racist or Islamaphobic. I don't think it's wrong to have conversations about this, as long as it's done while realizing that many NYC Muslims are incredibly nice good people who support women's education, LGBT+ rights, and liberal values.
It would also be understandable if someone viewed this xitter post as Islamaphobic and racist and disagreed.
I read another article about Mamdani: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/12/02/zohran-mamdani/. He's just so accepting and liberal and nice. Perhaps radicalism is so far removed from what he is about that he would not make any conservative radicals of any kind feel more comfortable and it actually is an irrational way of looking at things to consider that somehow it could lead to pockets of increased radical religious conservatives in the region. You probably will never see this, but I'm just updating this that perhaps I am wrong.