This just emphasizes another reason why people should not consider it a privacy respecting browser. :)

How privacy respecting can it be when you have to jump through hoops to turn off everything it shouldn’t do by default, in the name of privacy in the first place?

That should be my line.

Lurking is so much easier though!

Google can’t keep malware off the platform now, but sure, make it mandatory you can’t go anywhere else unless they say so first.

Settings>General>Posts>Autoplay Gifs/Video

Switzerland has a surveillance law in the works that will force VPNs, messaging apps, and online platforms to log users’ identities, IP addresses, and metadata for government access

I can only answer why I dropped Windows. I wasn’t going to pay a company to force AI spyware onto my system, ignore my commands with every update that negated them, or hold my data hostage if I didn’t jump through their endless hoops; all to claim my data as theirs with their end goal being to charge me more money for accessing what is supposed to be mine in the first place!

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More and more sites are moving away from allowing users access when creating accounts with temporary or alias addresses, and usage with vpns. Identity based accounts can’t be tracked if they don’t know your true identity.

In the not too distant future, everything you do online and off will be connected to your real world identity.

In order to provide you with better security, Google is required to know everything about you at all times. The shareholders demand it…smh

being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

As the years have passed, it has become the acceptable consensus for all of your personal information, thoughts, and opinions, to become freely available to anyone, at anytime, for any reason in order for companies to profit from it.

People keep believing this is normal and companies keep taking more. Unless everyone is willing to stand firm and say enough, I only see it declining further, unfortunately.

It seems to me that nothing is really new and there is nothing exciting, if not interesting, about technology today.

There is the massive infiltration of personal privacy to surveil everyone for whatever reason that is currently deemed acceptable, so there is that - smh

If a person considers it ”spam,” that is all the reason they need.

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My Recipe Box is used by a few in my family.

No account or internet connection needed and app for Android and ios.

If companies can’t protect the information they collect now, (a large portion of it gathered without consent), how are they going to protect even more information; and where can I opt out?..smh

If they did not collect any information, they would not have any information to give when they are served a subpoena.

It still boggles my mind how paying for ads became acceptable. Not only is the company making money from the advertisers for the ad space, they now get to make money off the population for viewing the ads. This is a crazy world we live in.

I’m pretty sure that Amazon, google, etc do far more nefarious shit behind the scenes in terms of tracking/fingerprinting you and collecting data to sell

You even get to pay more and more for this privilege…smh