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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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So, this cookie alert on theverge.com is both refreshingly honest and depressingly disturbing (lemmy.radio)

submitted 3 months ago by vk6flab@lemmy.radio to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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A cookie notice that seeks permission to share your details with "848 of our partners" and "actively scan device details for identification".

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[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Having seem the inside of some of these trackers, I can assure you that cross-domain "protection" is a furphy. Also, 848 partners is small fries. For shits and giggles you should turn on network logging on Firefox or Chrome and open any modern news website.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Yea, 😂, I was very shocked on the amount of server contacted when I first time installed a pi-hole and opened a local news page while being on piHole webUI to test if it works.