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Goodbye, Chrome: Google’s web browser has become spy software

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser — in a single week. Here’s why Firefox is better.

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#privacy #google #firefox #chrome #spy #encryption #tracker #cookies #surveillance

I've been researching for a decade and I've found always quite informative. as with any problem with digital media, there is software to make it easier
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are used to gain public approval and even to manipulate us, so it is important to know how reality can be different from intuition: "An Explainer on the Base Rate Fallacy and PNR"
epicenter.works/content/an-exp

"Until appropriate safeguards are in place, we need a moratorium on biometric technology that identifies individuals" nature.com/articles/d41586-019

Reading about how browser aims to remove unique IDs when counting users makes me think about how hasn't been tracking users from the beginning, and stopped tracking downloads years ago, and seems to only have become more popular. Makes me think that developed by community motivated by doing the right thing is a better way than a or being driven by . Maybe improving the of tracking is missing the point.
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is a new way for websites to practice and build trust with users by disabling access to APIs that are not used. Browsers already include it but the spec isn't final: it is missing a way to set the default to none. Join the discussion here github.com/w3c/webappsec-featu

circa 1980. "And we concluded that one excellent way to protect people was to collect less information about them."

GitHub has added Liberapay to the funding platforms supported in the `FUNDING.yml` file: github.blog/changelog/2019-06-

We have joined the ! We chose @purism since they are doing good things with , hardware designed for it, and services designed around with anti-harassment in mind. Also, since this is a public account, it makes sense that this instance is only public posts. puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-an
puri.sm/posts/curbing-harassme

“@DuckDuckGo is a poster child for a future in which companies stand with their users and still make money...They counter the assumption that we’ve all been socialized to accept: that it is normal to hand over all your information." - EFF's @jenuhhveev nytimes.com/2019/07/15/technol

/ looks like a crypto payment system designed by competent people grounded in human values. taler.net/en/principles.html and in general have proven to be an entirely anti-social, vastly inefficient for or money predominantly useful for criminal activity. Its time for them to disappear into the dustbin of history.

@mareklach The result is: people using a not-so-anonymous, energy/power-intensive, non-taxable, unstable and non-regulated currency. Nowadays I no longer use #cryptocurrency (e.g.: #Bitcoin, #Dogecoin, #Ethereum, #ZCash) that much. I advocate for #GNUTaler / #GNU #Taler, which is a payment system and thus works with any #money #currency, and is taxable since the seller is exposed to the bank/auditor while the client/buyer is anonymous.

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