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

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[–] BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I never said I was, just that I wanted to support the browser that respects my privacy, and this move is making me reconsider it.

As long as it's open source someone will be able to find a way to turn it off, either by an addon or by patching and compiling the source code.