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Posted Jun 9, 2019 2:53 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566)In reply to: on Privacy Badger by Herve5
Parent article: Firefox adds tracking protection by default
I used to do the same, but I'd rather use uMatrix's self-destructing cookie feature and whitelist the sites I actually use. Privacy Badger is explicitly designed to handwave through any 3rd party surveillance company that drops a shibboleth at the right URL.
I also don't trust the EFF as a whole any more, after learning more about them than I wanted to know. Was considering shredding my old donation letter today.
Posted Jun 24, 2019 15:30 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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The ad-driven Web is grotesque, but claiming that companies like Google provide no value at all and are pure parasites is utter hyperbole which requires no actual thought whatsoever to disprove.
Posted Jun 24, 2019 15:35 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Hm, that was an interesting article, but it goes way over the top. e.g. describing Google et al, it says
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On a fundamental level, these companies were like tapeworms—digital parasites that sunk their hooks into our networks of culture distribution and siphoned value as quickly as possible for themselves, without giving anything back to the people who produce culture.
This outright states that web search is valueless. Really? Try to do your job without it. Go on, I'll wait. (Oh obviously you have to give up your phone as well and try to work without that, too, since in addition to Google, the article *starts* by ranting against Apple.)
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