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LWD, to privacy in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought

Different use case. Those are containers, which have a similar color… But in Chrome, everything is in one container, the colored tabs are just grouped together and those groups can be collapsed to save horizontal space in the tab bar.

LWD, to privacy in Manifest v3 is Worse than I Thought

Sidebery does a pretty good job of managing tab groups from a sidebar, although it’s much less ad-hoc

LWD, to privacy in You Need to Turn on Apple’s New Stolen iPhone Tool

Unless we are to believe that one of the most famously user-friendly companies on the planet just dropped the ball here, it looks like a dark pattern

LWD, to privacy in Apple is bringing sideloading and alternate app stores to the iPhone

Considering how many technicalities Apple is weaseling through right now, it’s probably the most legal thing in existence.

Of course, legality does not mean morality, and in this case I would argue it’s the opposite

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

If there’s something interesting to add to the list, I’m curious. Brave did partner with a criminal organization currently under a $1.1 billion lawsuit, but I don’t have enough information about your particular case.

Did the software lock you out or did their servers? Was this reported on anywhere?

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

What an ironic thing to post

LWD, to privacy in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

Chilling.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

There’s no reason to hate Brave unless you have a political bias against their CEO.

Besides in 2016, when Brave promised to remove banner ads from websites and replace them with their own, basically trying to extract money directly from websites without the consent of their owners

And when the CEO unilaterally added a fringe, pay-to-win Wikipedia clone into the default search engine list.

And in 2018, Tom Scott and other creators noticed Brave was soliciting donations in their names without their knowledge or consent.

And in 2020, when Brave got caught injecting URLs with affiliate codes when users tried browsing to various websites.

Also in 2020, when they silently started injecting ads into their home page backgrounds, pocketing the revenue. There was a lot of pushback: “the sponsored backgrounds give a bad first impression.” Further requests were ignored (immediately closed)

And in 2022, when Brave floated the idea of further discouraging users from disabling sponsored messages.

And in 2023, when Brave got caught installing a paid VPN service on users’ computers without their consent.

LWD, to privacy in Ghostery Private Search

Ghostery was also intimately involved with what is now Brave Search, IIRC.

LWD, to privacy in Brave to end 'Strict' fingerprinting protection as it breaks websites

Do you hate the Brave CEO for doing the same thing as the Mozilla CEO, but with even less restraint?

Or are you just whining in hopes that nobody will question whether you’re being a hypocrite

LWD, to privacy in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

We were talking about the definition of privacy, and I was giving an example to bolster my definition of it. We can switch to a different topic if you want, but first I want to cement this definition.

LWD, to privacyguides in Pro/Con of DeGoogled Phone Operating Systems

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    LWD, to privacy in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

    Choosing who to share your data with has been considered a privacy setting since the inception of Facebook and the subsequent erosion of those same settings.

    For example, privacy settings on Facebook are available to all registered users: they can block certain individuals from seeing their profile, they can choose their “friends”, and they can limit who has access to their pictures and videos.

    LWD, to privacy in What site can scan sites for trackers?

    This sounds like Exodus but Exodus is made for apps not websites. Apps are easier because they tend to list all that stuff up front.

    LWD, to privacy in Privacy Concerns on Lemmy: A Call for More User Control

    I like that there is no “private” accounts. This is a feature not a bug.

    I’m not trying to argue against privacy…

    I appreciate your honesty but this seems to conflict

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