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by bad_user 3y ago
Threads isn't launched in EU possibly because it's spyware and not compliant with GDPR. Coming from Meta, and given Facebook, their main product, why would you think it can develop a better culture? On Twitter/X, the reality
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'd rather not be mistaken for a populist. Certainly elites have been pushing society forward. Democracy is about accepting the fact that people know their own needs better than everyone else does, and that they should be free to expre
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by bad_user 3y ago
We often look down on "the people", but the masses have more wisdom than the elites, even if societal consensus can sometimes lead to terrible solutions to problems. Democracy is nuanced, much like reality, and this bothers people
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by bad_user 3y ago
I haven't opened Edge in a while, but it used to give you a consent dialog from IAB, with which Microsoft informed you that they share your data with the entire advertising industry. Its telemetry is probably impossible to deactivate.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Blocking ads is morally OK only as long as that's the only way to consume that content, and as long as you're not trying to block anti-ad-block warnings. If there's a reasonably priced subscription available (or another busin
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm paying $8.30 / month for the Family option. That's like 2 or 3 coffees. In other countries this is more expensive, but it's adjusted for local buying power. Both you and the parent simply come up with reasons to avoi
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by bad_user 3y ago
"Monopolies can reduce network CO2"
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by bad_user 3y ago
I don't see a problem with banning legitimate ads. Please keep in mind that ads are messages that visitors never subscribed for. The only party that loses here is the advertiser, and I couldn't care less. In fact, the problem with
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by bad_user 3y ago
Wow, I was downvoted. OK HN :-) I'm not complaining, just find it funny.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Wi-fi doesn't work well due to the number of people connecting. You also have LTE connectivity, working poorly due to the number of connected people, but I could send pictures as I was making them, so good enough.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I'm from Romania, The Turda Salt Mine is a pretty interesting site, you should visit it. The whole area is pittoresque.
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by bad_user 3y ago
I have a 1 Gbps internet connection at home, for which I'm paying $10 per month. I live in Romania. The US and its companies are not the only ones on this earth, so unless you're going to claim some sort of conspiracy that prevent
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by bad_user 3y ago
I understand this is cringe, but: > one of the many entities directly responsible for destroying our planet Do any of you believe this narative? Honest question: isn't the destruction of the planet due to the 8 billion people that
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by bad_user 3y ago
Good to know, will try it, although I don't understand how Firefox's uBlock Origin can work without having its own rendering engine. Are you sure it works?
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by bad_user 3y ago
Bromite's ad-blocking is very basic, the worst of the bunch. But it's a decent choice nonetheless.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Also, the actual Tor Browser, based on Firefox.
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by bad_user 3y ago
Safari on iOS does have ads blocking, e.g., AdGuard, Wipr, 1Blocker. It doesn't work so well versus uBlock Origin, ofc. Alternative browsers don't have that much control over what's rendered, so they are probably using the sa
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by bad_user 3y ago
YouTube's own video ads can currently be blocked. I predict, however, that Google won't allow this for long, because there were already signs that they are deploying anti-ad-blocking detection. People don't realize, but the d
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by bad_user 3y ago
Well, yes, I was using an euphemism :-)
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by bad_user 3y ago
A lot of the comments here are missing the picture... They may be trying such deals because they just found out that behavioral advertising is ilegal under GDPR without consent. And also, under GDPR, people should be able to decline without
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by bad_user 3y ago
Meta is only offering this because the EU is forcing their hands to ask for consent without degrading service for those that refuse. "Selling" user data isn't legal without a basis under GDPR and they don't have it. Also
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by bad_user 3y ago
That's DNS-level blocking and it won't work for long, being the kind of ad-blocking that's the easiest to circumvent. Companies simply didn't bother to do it. But as a test, try blocking ads in any social app, like Faceb
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by bad_user 3y ago
Facebook is also deploying anti-adblock tech, so even on the desktop, even when ad-blocking seems to work, it's only temporary. uBlock Origin or Brave, doesn't matter, Facebook beats all ad-blockers.
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by bad_user 3y ago
This is a good reason, but it's niche, and such level of privacy isn't sustainable for most people. Because they are Google, and they know the location of your IP address better than anyone (since they have Wi-fi info, too), so if
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by bad_user 3y ago
Some of us pay for YouTube Premium. One can argue that if you don't want ads, and you don't want to pay for a subscription, then maybe you shouldn't use that website. Because continued use is just like software piracy. It&#x2
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by bad_user 3y ago
Microsoft wouldn't have anything to gain by forking Firefox, as Chrome was already dominant and Chromium is open source, with more resources going into its development. Microsoft dropped IExplorer because they were far behind in their
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by bad_user 3y ago
Again, people dying from the elements is at an all time low, and this is a fact: https://ourworldindata.org/natural-disasters Indeed, the number of people dying from extreme heat is going up, but that number was small to be
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by bad_user 3y ago
Chrome's adblocking capabilities, introduced in Manifest v3, are (1) inspired by Safari and (2) more capable than what Safari provides. You can track this uBlock Origin Lite issue: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/u
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by bad_user 3y ago
People dying from the elements is at an all time low! As a teenager, my grandfather lost a set of teeth due to the winter's cold, by sleeping in a cold barn, and he described it as a near-death experience. If anything, for many regions
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by bad_user 3y ago
My father was born into a world in which he had to practice subsistence farming if he didn't go to school. His was the first generation for which school was an option, and as a child he traveled 20 km by foot to the school and back, da

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