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Does Privacy Badger do something that uBlock Origin does not?
They have different purposes. Privacy Badger is not there to block all ads; it exists to block trackers . For websites I like, I turn off uBlock Origin but leave Privacy Badger enabled.
So far to me that's been pretty good to the point I stopped using Privacy Badger (which I agree is pretty good too!).
Oh the irony. Reading this article requires me to give away my e-mail address...
The NYT is a content website in a sea of content websites. Getting you on their email list is valuable in the way that getting you to install their app is valuable; they can send you notifications and a few free articles that can maybe upsell you into a subscription.
They have no choice but to do this because we still think text and pictures on the internet should be free. We've come around to paying for music and videos, but it still seems too much of a hurdle for traditional news outlets.
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Exactly my experience, going on 3 to 4 years now. Spend the time to learn uMatrix. It's an incredible investment into yourself and your web experience. I barely browse on mobile anymore since I don't have uMatrix, although Brave does allow blocking scripts and some stuff quite easily. Highly recommend Brave on mobile.
I have Firefox and uMatrix on mobile. It is not a s seamless as desktop but bearable.
> Avoid unnecessary web tracking Google is just one of 100+ ad networks that show you personalized ads. You can turn off ads personalization from Google or any of the other participating ad networks here at http://optout.aboutads.info/ Source: https://adssettings.google.com
But I really wanted to opine about the optout.aboutads.info link. I suppose that using that can't hurt, but I didn't find it to be particularly helpful. I gave up on it entirely quite a while back.
The omission of "Disable third party cookies" is fairly shocking. From my understanding, it might be the single most effective thing you can reduce tracking. Whenever I get the chance, I recommend the following pieces of Internet hygiene to anyone and everyone I can: * Disable 3rd party cookies * uBlock Origin * Privacy Badger * HTTPS Everywhere These things are all dead simple and will significantly reduce your trac…
With the latest macOS it is no longer possible to install uBlock Origin in Safari. Do you have a different recommendation that works with Catalina?
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Agreed. I've been using SyncThing for over 4 years and while it has a few rough edges (synced/shared/global file ignore would be great) still it's been fully reliable and a generally great user experience. So if you're trying to cater to existing SyncThing users don't mince words to make it appear that something which you claim is a negative with SyncThing doesn't exist in your product - which it clearly does. SyncTh…
I'm sure what they mean by all devices needing to be on and connected, is that if only one device is connected, there will be nothing to sync to. So if I take some photos while on vacation, but my desktop at home is asleep, then I can't sync my photos to it. So if I lose my phone before then, I'm sunk. Of course this is fixed by simply having the desktop on all the time, which would then make it similar to a client s…
If I take photos on vacation and throw them in a sync'd folder the next time both devices are online they will resolve the new file delta between that shared folder. That doesn't imply I always need one or the other device online. The more devices syncing the less likely it is that only one would be online at a time, but again there's no requirement there for an always on device.
Anyway... SyncThing is fantastic for users who are willing to invest some time learning how the software works. Every paid for product seems to cater to the "it just works" mentality thereby sacrificing control to me, the user, to handle situations that can't be handled by overly simplified, cloud-first, lock the user into our licensing model solutions. And don't get me wrong, those are fine for many people. For users who want more control via more responsibility - then SyncThing is great. But I don't like how they are spreading FUD about it just to get some name association.
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Somehow I don't understand how you say Syncthing's disadvantage in comparison is that it's a P2P system[1], but at the same time your website says duple doesn't need a server. Maybe I've misunderstood, but this sounds just like Syncthing with an always-on client - except for the file versioning, that sounds like an interesting feature to me. [1] https://blog.duple.io/what-is-the-point-of-duple/
Agreed. I've been using SyncThing for over 4 years and while it has a few rough edges (synced/shared/global file ignore would be great) still it's been fully reliable and a generally great user experience. So if you're trying to cater to existing SyncThing users don't mince words to make it appear that something which you claim is a negative with SyncThing doesn't exist in your product - which it clearly does. SyncTh…
Regarding the synced/shared/global file ignore, there's an imperfect but usable work-around:
You can use #include statements in your .stignore, so you can include another file that contains the global ignore list, then sync that file. You have to set up the .stignore with the include statement for all of your devices/folders, but after that, it's essentially a global ignore list.
Hope that helps.