madis

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Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Menu -> Settings -> Tracker and Ad Blocking -> Block Trackers and Ads

Spotify re-invented the radio in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube clients like NewPipe.

Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

DDG has a built-in option to determine whether you want to see ads or not.

Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News in c/[email protected]

Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

And the money won't go to Firefox, but Mozilla's other projects.

Is the fairphone really worth it? in c/[email protected]

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

Though that does not equal to interest by the devs who create ROMs and other such content.

Maybe less of a concern since Treble but a concern nonetheless.

ESRB Blasts Reports That It's Using Facial Recognition Technology to Verify Ages of Children - IGN in c/[email protected]

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

The parent may then be asked to consent to a scan of their face using a front-facing camera, which is then used to "accurately estimate the parent's age."

the only piece of information that is communicated to the company requesting [Verifiable Parental Consent] is a 'Yes' or 'No' determination as to whether the person is over the age of 25.

So that's settled, people under the age of 25 can no longer have children.

"Kids Can't Use Computers" is now ten years old, and it's only gotten worse in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

...and the blog owner can't use Let's Encrypt.