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[–] dgerard@awful.systems 21 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Go check your privacy settings in Firefox - they've switched on sending data to advertisers by default as of Firefox 128. Even Google sent this setting out default off, probably having spoken to an actual lawyer who mentioned the GDPR.

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Well, I needed an excuse to use Supermium - no better excuse than this.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I don't really know if any chromium-based options are a real solution - there's so much code in there that a lot of times won't get caught (cf. brave etc for this very thing), and goog is actively working to push their own agenda and they have a lot more dev-hours than anyone else to churn shit out

ladybird and servo seem like the most promising alternative paths right now, and ladybird less so because chuds -_-

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ladybird isn't going anywhere. The web standards move too fast and they're not going to be able to catch up. I wish it was another way, but there's no way a couple of million $ is going to move the needle here when (probably) tens of billions have been poured into chromium/FF.

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

also it looks likely to have other possible problems

[–] sinedpick@awful.systems 5 points 4 months ago

oof. Something tells me he's a good guy and just knee-jerked that response without thinking about it. But then I realize it doesn't matter because the kind of community you create doesn't depend on who you are deep down but what you say publicly.

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