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