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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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The shady world of Brave selling copyrighted data for AI training (stackdiary.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Install Firefox (also works on mobile!), add uBlock Origin (also available on mobile!), done.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

*not on iOS **but soon will be due to EU laws (blink-based and gecko-based browsers will be available probably next year to comply with the law (yes worldwide, trying to region lock will result in 1) it won’t work anyway and 2) assdestroying fines from the EU for blatant violation)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And if you are feeling extra frisky, install noscript to pick and choose what sources of js you are willing to run and/or be terrified/furious of all the non-relevant scripts sites run.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually did that for a while (on my PC at least). Major pain in the ass unfortunately.

Of course it's good to block that crap, but usability takes too much of a nose dive. I do live in the EU though, so when it comes to data protection things have gotten a lot better in the last years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve been using it for a few years now and by now picking out the scripts for site navigation and finding the relavant cdn is pretty much automatic now. If I find a site that is just an absolute js clusterfuck, I just run it in porno mode and let the scrips loose and hope for the best until I find what I went there for. I even take the time to reject cookies manually as per my right, haha. Maybe it will show up on some stat somewhere, a flaccid message, but a message none the less.

What did you think of the recent deal the EU made with the giants? As an EU citizen I find it concerning, because it might be a slippery slope.