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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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Firefox added ad tracking and has already turned it on without asking you (mastodon.social)

submitted 1 month ago by azdle@news.idlestate.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Cookies are a non-issue. They store data only locally and can be edited and removed at will. With third party isolation on by default there's really no reason to worry about them much anymore. And if you do just install cookie auto-delete to clean things up.

This variant is definitely worse because the data is no longer just local.