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tags = ['investigations', 'privacy', 'fediverse'] tags = ['investigations', 'privacy', 'fediverse']
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**update:** basically everything in this document is outdated less than a day later; almanac is now defunct, and the logging of exact search queries has also been fixed. you may look at the appendix for Tiago's comments :3
## Introduction ## Introduction
**hi and welcome back!!! :3** this time we will research & discuss a ridiculous violation of the privacy of possibly thousands of unknowing entities, happening through the websites `tiago[.]zip` and `estrogen[.]delivery`. **hi and welcome back!!! :3** this time we will research & discuss a ridiculous violation of the privacy of possibly thousands of unknowing entities, happening through the websites `tiago[.]zip` and `estrogen[.]delivery`.
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### ... and you can't even opt-out ### ... and you can't even opt-out
note: things in this section might be outdated by the time you read this; this represents the state of affairs as of writing this, on august 12th/13th 2026
The same page mentions 3 ways one can opt out; 1 at the user level and 2 at the instance level: The same page mentions 3 ways one can opt out; 1 at the user level and 2 at the instance level:
- add `#noindex` to one's bio, - add `#noindex` to one's bio,
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- https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/117086174531531720 - https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/117086174531531720
- https://fedi.wasp.best/notes/aptptbsrdya9mskb - https://fedi.wasp.best/notes/aptptbsrdya9mskb
- https://fedi.wasp.best/notes/apuy1uchy1aef5gf - https://fedi.wasp.best/notes/apuy1uchy1aef5gf
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<summary>Appendix: Comments</summary>
(August 14, 2026)
> As for #noindex, if you query note of profiles.parquet for that exactly, youll get zero results. However, with the query SELECT COUNT(*) FROM 'profiles.parquet' WHERE note ILIKE '%#%noindex%';, you will get 663 results (or 674 if you omit the hashtag, but those 11 people probably just dont know that they need to make it a hashtag):
this has been fixed yesterday!
> This will be explained in some more detail in a later section, but all you need to know for now is that there is nothing Palantir-related on palantir[.]estrogen[.]delivery! Its just a login page pretending to be a Foundry instance.
it's a joke, if you try to log in it shows tenna's killed. i addressed this on an issue on metasearch's github
also almanac has mostly been shut down
> a “friendly knowledge base for gender-affirming hormone therapy” (just use transfem science bwaaa) (wiki[.]estrogen[.]delivery)
this is my defunct wikimedia clone, the data is placeholders which you shouldnt rely on. nothing else links to it
> Another thing that came up while digging through domain records was yuri[.]delivery, which just appears to be a site for looking at yuri. I dont know if this site is related to Tiago or not, but it is in the same Cloudflare DNS zone (so theres a chance that its managed by the same account).
yep it's mine.
> oh no. The request to the fake Foundry (fakedry?) instance includes our exact query. Both as a specific query field and in the field for the URL.
this is a bug and not supposed to happen, ill look into it.
should get fixed in a few hours
edit: fixed. it was the site search feature i forgot to remove for metasearch
i assume it's an artifact from the plausible fork
> By looking up one of the class names (bp6-input) on Censys combined with the path, we can find that this login page was taken from palantir[.]4x[.]rip (and slightly modified to add the “killed” thing):
yes that's oomf, i asked them if i could steal it
> happy phone. /ref
NOOOOO DON'T JOIN THE HIVEMIND
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