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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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Google is the master of fake Privacy features - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Consent popup without symmetric disagree violating GDPR.

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Ironic given the article topic.

I won't be reading this article because of the gate.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Archive.is is your friend, and doesn't give the offending website any clicks.

https://archive.is/VRzQN

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the link, the part about disabling Ad privacy in Android is also helpful, I had no idea about this and all of it was turned on after the last os update.