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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

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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Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 4 months ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It appears in the release notes, though. Previously you would have been tracked. Now they try to anonymously return data to the tracker. So I do not see a reason to uncheck that flag.

Admittedly I am interpreting this feature from my gut. And you provide the sources I would have asked for. Appreciated.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

The vast majority of people do not read release notes or even know they exist.

There is nothing positive about what has been done here.