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megantic

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    Comment #6344935

    After failing to fund an ubuntu phone, now they're trying their luck again with a not so cheap, not so good hardware (who wants an intel atom instead of arm?). I use linux but I ha…

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    Comment #6344889

    I cringe when I read their claim to be "the first-ever privacy-focused browser built on chromium". Iron[1] was first released in 2008 to circumvent privacy issues with chrome. I wo…

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    Comment #6344861

    Ads. When you use the browser search engine. See the faq on their website.

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    Comment #6344854

    Looks like an attempt at pivoting, jumping of the privacy bandwagon. Doesn't really make a good case that this browser is based on belief of privacy as stated in their faq.

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    Comment #6344836

    1) we'll take another example, let's say you have your own religious views and those get collected in a database, seemingly no harm done here. Then comes a newly elected government…

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    Comment #6344811

    Are you saying that it is ok to globally disregard privacy, profile users, sell their data/profile without them knowing or getting a part of this profit because it doesn't make you…

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    Comment #6344806

    google tracking != anonymized search data

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    Comment #6344801

    That's probably because you don't grasp what can be done with this data, and for how long this data will be around. The bottom line is in the relation between privacy and freedom. …

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    Comment #6344261

    For sure, but in the case of google this probably doesn't apply. From what was published recently we know NSA has proven methods for bypassing encryption, namely getting the keys u…