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Data-mining giants be like (i.imgur.com)
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[–] kenblu24 158 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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Four-quadrant meme

Upper Left: Chrome Browser Logo; PayPal Honey logo; VeePN Logo.
Upper Right: Laughing Men In Suits (And Then I Said meme)

Bottom Left: Fennec F-Droid app icon; Privacy Badger logo; UBlock Origin logo; Decentraleyes logo.
Bottom Right: "Afraid to loose money stock photo": Stock photo of middle-aged white male on couch holding three US hundred dollar bills with a mildly frightened facial expression.

edit: also thanks to the peeps who identified the logos so I didn't have to reverse image search every single one of them

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Holy fucking shit, very good Human

[–] Drystan_Furor 4 points 1 year ago

Far out

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for reminding me to remove Honey. I've had it for a while and never used it. Went to use it a bit ago and it made my cart more expensive lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Honey hasnt found me a coupon in probably over a year. Idk how it didn't click to me until now that its just more spyware. Theres no way the big corps are just okay with people paying less for evwrything unless they get something else out of it

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't privacy badger kind of redundant with ublock origin? Chameleon might be a good alternative as I'm always worried my extensions will give me a unique fingerprint.

[–] WaveWood 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah Privacy Badger is redundant, Privacy Guides only recommends installing uBlock Origin and changing some settings in Firefox to decrease the uniqueness in your browser fingerprint.

[–] CheeseNoodle 27 points 1 year ago

It should tell us something that corporations will gleefully scrape up as much of our data as possible (even if we don't use their services) but trying to get info out of a corporation (even stuff you have a direct legal entitlement too) is like getting blood from a stone.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be cool if there was an open source federated alternative to Honey for coupon codes

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

what would federation add here

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buzzword...

[–] zach 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything must be in the cloud, federated, and AI

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget blockchain

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

our visionary, disruptive new start-up...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It would allow anyone to spin up their own self hosted instance that shares collected coupon codes with other instances

[–] lymingseng 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait... UblockOrigin alone isn't enough?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you add the url shortener lists and set firefox Enhanced Teacking Protection to strict (enforces first party isolation), you only need Canvas Blocker.

[–] Yoz 2 points 1 year ago

i didn't know that.Thanks.

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

dont use firefox use librewolf (a fork of firefox)

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

Claims like this need a reason 🤦‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not OP, but it has better default settings for privacy IIRC. Nothing you can't do in default FF mind you

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Anyone else think the logo for Fennec is better than Firefox

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is it ok to have ublock origin and badger at the same time?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I run this duo on every browser I open

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

I feel like I had badger for a while but it seemed to break so many things I was trying to access... Sites seem to really not like you having it installed. Was I just not using it right, or has it gotten better?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how does honey work

[–] Ignisnex 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Searches their database for a coupon code whenever it detects you're on a store checkout page, then blasts all the coupon codes into the little box rapid fire. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't. PayPal then collects your browsing data through the plugin and sells it off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with all the logos, mind filling me in?

[–] EvilBlackCat 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's ~~librewolf~~, Privacy Badger, UBlock Origin and Decentraleyes if I'm not wrong.

Edit : Fennec, not Librewolf

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You got all but one right. The logo is a little bit hard to find by searching, but the icon on the left is Fennec, a version of Firefox for Android.

[–] Bonskreeskreeskree 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why should someone use fennec over regular firefox

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Use Mull over Fennec though, hardens security with settings taken from arkenfox user.js.

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

It removes proprietary chunks and lessens telemetry.

[–] EvilBlackCat 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the correction.

[–] doppelgangmember 2 points 1 year ago

honey also be breaking my React code 😒

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

how does honey work