A switch has silently been flipped in millions of instances of Google Chrome: those browsers will begin sorting their users into groups based on behavior, then sharing group labels with third-party trackers and advertisers around the web. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
Major browsers are upping their privacy promises (a good thing), but unfortunately this does not mean they actually stop Google & Facebook tracking.
To do that, you have to totally stop their trackers from loading, like the DuckDuckGo app & extension do.
https://spreadprivacy.com/browser-privacy-protection/
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1376874272191213569
In trying to kill a class action lawsuit, Google admits Incognito mode was never meant to actually protect your privacy: "websites might be able to collect info about your browsing activity"
The problem is the name itself is inherently misleading.
Original tweet : https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1373269851670728708
Also *you shouldn't* access sites like:
Library Genesis and Imperial Library of Trantor.
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Okay remind me again why are publicly funded officers working as lackeys of private, for-profit interests?
Heads-up! Security vulnerability in ‘guix-daemon’ affects multi-user setups:
https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2021/risk-of-local-privilege-escalation-via-guix-daemon/
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