on Privacy Badger

on Privacy Badger

Posted Jun 24, 2019 15:30 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: on Privacy Badger by flussence
Parent article: Firefox adds tracking protection by default

Hm, that was an interesting article, but it goes way over the top. e.g. describing Google et al, it says

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.)

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.

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