Don't send unsolicited mail, period. Ever. It's wasteful, and it doesn't work, especially for a digital product.

RT @sebmck@twitter.com

I got this in the mail from... @brave@twitter.com? Nothing says you care about privacy like sending unsolicited marketing spam. Never given them any personal details in my life.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/sebmck/status/1531

@thelinuxEXP Looks like I'm switching back to Firefox, the least bad browser. Is the browser still happening? That one might not be terrible.

@joshfowler @thelinuxEXP didn't it like just come out that DDG had a *secret* agreement with microsoft to not block microsoft trackers with the DDG extension and on the DDG site

@joshfowler @thelinuxEXP DuckDuckGo's undisclosed deal with Microsoft to not block their trackers makes that a questionable choice, too.

@rusty @thelinuxEXP @puyo That's it, I'm going full and just using lynx or W3M to browse the internet! In all seriousness though, is there a non-spyware, non-tracking search engine that actually functions well? Or do I just need to use for searches and bookmark everything I need?

@joshfowler @thelinuxEXP @puyo There aren't really any that I know of. Any time you have a free search engine, it's not free, you are the product. I'd be willing to pay for a private search engine, but unfortunately most people aren't, especially when that search engine is likely to be worse than Google's free alternative. 🤷

@rusty @thelinuxEXP @puyo I suppose the best you can hope for is the approach of use another search engines results but anonymise the user. Shame they are permitting these trackers from Microsoft. I'm assuming Privacy Badger will block these trackers?

@joshfowler @thelinuxEXP Considering it's FOSS, it's a pretty safe bet that it will. If it doesn't, at least it's a pretty safe bet that it's because the heuristic tracking needs more training, not because they were paid off by Microsoft.

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