If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.
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in reply to evacide • • •these critiques surprise me. I didn't know about this announcement. When I looked it up, I found a thoughtful article that includes the paragraph:
"Other browsers, like Firefox and Safari, baked in privacy protections from third-party cookies in 2019 and 2020, respectively. Neither of those browsers has anything like Privacy Sandbox, which makes them better options if you'd prefer more privacy."
They didn't even omit or downplay a recommendation to use a different browser!
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in reply to justpeachy • •@justpeachy In case your question doesn't get seen, the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is an organization that fights for and educates people about digital privacy issues.
More info is available on their web site: eff.org/
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in reply to evacide • • •Hell, yes!!
Would that I had more than just one boost to give...
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in reply to evacide • • •See also people complaining that electric cars don't solve all the problems caused by cars.
Or, on a personal note, that I should replace flying with taking a train... on a transoceanic route.
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in reply to evacide • • •ah a classic question: idealism versus practical harm reduction.
It's like the people who argue against giving heroin addicts access to safe needles.
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in reply to evacide • • •EFF should be advising their followers to step out of the box that makes them the product. "Harm reduction" my ass.
I am no longer a follower, or a paying member. What I'm seeing lately is both moral and technical decline.
PS - Its hard to see an impact from EFF's fractional "harm reduction" when Google just shoved Chrome users into a new surveillance mode because too many were opting out of the old mode with blockers like uBlock Origin. If your workaround becomes popular, then #Google will react again with yet another scheme. That math won't add up. It is not reasonable to assume that Google is anything less than hostile to privacy at this point, but the EFF's behavior has been mollifying. #chrome
Doubtless your defenders here would dismiss all of this as some kind of FOSS purist pedantry, but it should concern you that their excuses sound like the old Internet Explorer hype of yore. With followers like that, something has gone wrong.
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in reply to evacide • • •Yes, by that standard, the abolishment movement probably should have handed out leaflets how to deal better being whipped than running their mouth arguing for freeing the slaves to make themselves feel smart.
Especially as Google seems to have absolutely no qualm to take away what little control you have of your browsing experience. Notice how Manifest V3, the web browser attestation thing (that is already in the chromium source code), …
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in reply to evacide • • •> If you use Chrome, you can disable this feature through a series of three confusing settings.
A more complete story would also have posted links to alternative browsers. It can't be any harder to install FF than it is to work through "a series of three confusing settings" to disable the privacy sandbox "feature" in Chrome.
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/09/how-…
How To Turn Off Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” Ad Tracking—and Why You Should
Electronic Frontier FoundationMiles Goodhew
in reply to evacide • • •[/me follows the bouncing ball...]
"oh... I already turned all that gunk off already."
(for clarity: I only use Chrome/Edge when a site fails on all my cookie/blocker stuff)
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