Firefox enables user tracking
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    That’s true, but this feature doesn't involve your browser tracking you or profiling you. It only relates to anttribution. And if you don’t trust that, it’s an easy 1-click opt out.

    There is a good high level explainer here: https://andrewmoore.ca/blog/post/mozilla-ppa/

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  • Firefox enables user tracking
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    What?

    uBO absolutely helps against tracking. It is at least half of its reason for existing.

    The two primary lists are an (1) an ad block list (2) an anti-tracking list.

    And used in medium or hard mode uBO categorically blocks many methods of tracking.

    But also, if you use Firefox, this is layered on top of Enhanced tracking protection, blocking of 3p tracking cookies, and total cookie protection (dfpi)

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  • What is the actual point of a bra?
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    I got stoned enough to forget my age a few months ago… not like for a moment… I consciously focused on it for 15 minutes, couldn’t figure it out, kept pondering the rest of the night and couldn’t remember until the next morning…

    I am old enough to occasionally forget my age, not to literally not be able to recall it… so I can empathize if bro is just waaay too stoned to comprehend the concept of a bra haha

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  • Most consumers hate the idea of AI-generated customer service
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    Tbf most consumers hate all customer service.

    While I’d prefer to just speak to a human, I’d much prefer AI over the status quo of dead dumb automated systems that just keep looping through the same preset options until you get enraged and give up or mash zero

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  • A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer
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    Not me. I was interested in the tech and innovations that underlie cryptocurrency since the early 2010s and I’ve disliked and distrusted Musk for as long as I can remember.

    At that time the reddit hive mind loved Musk and was positive towards crypto, now the Reddit Hive mind has realized they actually hate musk and categorically hate crypto. My views haven’t changed (Musk is a shitty narcissistic human, and crypto solves some useful problems despite a deserved reputation for attracting a lot of scammy projects and people).

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  • Why is Lemmy obsessed with the word "enshittification"?
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    It’s a word that has become popular in general in the last year-ish. But if you hear it more here. It is likely because it is a term used to describe the dynamic that pushed people from Reddit and other platforms to Lemmy. So you will here it more here, since pretty much everyone here has been personally affected by it.

    Basically we are a self selecting group of people who chose to leave (or minimize use of) big tech platforms. And are therefore much more likely to be aware of the problems with those platforms.

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    Son, we need to have a serious talk!
    VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
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    Considering that in this analogy you’d be asking the mugger to be your protector it is still unreasonable.

    Particularly considering there are plenty of reputable and privacy respecting vpn providers

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  • VPN by Google One is shutting down for good
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    Yeah voluntarily using a VPN from Google (the largest tracking and Adtech company), is like voluntarily seeking out Mob “protection”

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  • FF Evangelists
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    I think Konquerer is no longer actively maintained.

    Fun fact (which you may already know) the two most popular browser engines today are based on KHTML)

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  • FF Evangelists
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    Google is in the process of undermining the effectiveness of uBlock Origin and other adblockers on Chrome and other Chromium browsers. I believe that change comes into effect this year.

    But even before those changes were announced, uBlock Origin’s creator and main dev has stated that uBO is most capable on Firefox.

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  • Journalist says he finds it ‘surreal’ to have account on X suspended after writing critique of platform
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    I just wish that a free-speech-absolutist-billionaire would buy the platform so things like this wouldn’t happen anymore. He could even rename it something cool (like ‘Y’ or ‘Z’) to get some street-cred with edgy middleschoolers..

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  • Happy Lunar New Year
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    If you form your understanding on topics you don’t understand based on what “gatekeeping morons” think or do, you are going to be perpetually misinformed

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  • How I like my pi
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    You can use a second router and pass through the WAN. It’s a bit complicated to explain in a comment, but it’s also not too difficult. Is your ISP ATT?

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  • I’ve never seen a company burn so much goodwill so fast and so unnecessarily.

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