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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I switched to LibreWolf after I learned that Waterfox was/is ran by an advertisement company.

Today they should be independant again, however my trust in them is forever lost.

https://discuss.techlore.tech/t/waterfox-regains-independence-abandoning-the-advertising-company-system1/4594

YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So kind of Google, always putting out new fun challenges to encourage people to get their hands dirty with hacking their crap :)

Young people think vapes aren’t harmful because they are so easy to buy, study finds in c/[email protected]

Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (9 children)

True open source projects like LibreWolf, Ungoogled Chromium > Sketchy world of Brave

Eternity v0.1.0 released! Formerly Infinity for Lemmy in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Previous Infinity user. Been using Eternity for a few weeks now, and I love it! :D

[HN] Google promises Germany to creep on users less after market power probe in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't believe them, they lied plenty of times about such things before, why would this be different?

Just let the spyware giants die out, they all are anti-consumer.

[TECHCRUNCH] Meta planning ad-free subscription or tracking ads ‘choice’ in EU, per WSJ — in latest bid to keep snooping in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for the scandal where it becomes clear that the settings where just placebo, and that paid users are still data-farmed, in a true Fb fashion.

Just let this spy-ware corp die out..