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This should only be done in combination with a VPN. Open DNS points are not generally recommended Check out nextdns instead. It can likely do what you had in mind
thanks. I will check this out. is AdGuard also a similar approach ? https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdGuard
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Nice, hadn't seen those sliders before. Must be a new feature.
It's been around for some time. Not sure how long, but I don't remember it ever not being there.
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Some Netflix originals have a lot of product placement
Product placement is a slight annoyance compared to ads. That said, I could see them becoming just as toxic.
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Dont give Google Maps and YouTube ideas. Wait...
Also Google Meet. I've noticed my webcam always comes through crystal clear in Meet on Chrome, but is reliably blurry in Firefox.
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It's been around for some time. Not sure how long, but I don't remember it ever not being there.
I still don't see those sliders. Is it something you have to enable in the preferences? Is it mobile-only or something (I don't use a browser on my phone at all, so I wouldn't know...)
I expected these numbers to be higher. However, an even more interesting metric is the 88% block in Firefox. Firefox may not have a great market share, but based on these numbers it's market share may very well be eight times higher than your analytics report. This can change the argument of "it's only 3% of our users so we don't need to test on FF" to "it's a quarter of our user base, we should at least test it", de…
Doesn't Firefox still include google analytics into its Preferences dialog boxes or something? Im finding these stats ironic.
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It's odd a company of that size cannot roll their own solution.
It's odd a company of the size of GM cannot roll their own gas station and toad construction network. What's the purpose of the Mozilla organisation? Is it in creating a analytics platform? Mind that value of GA comes from all the info they have and thus can estimate age, gender, social things, ... of users etc. Building an comparable service is a notable effort with little synergies to what Mozilla does. (Whereas Go…
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I can't quite understand this. By "exploiting" you simply mean targeting ads? The real harm seems to be from the tech giants censoring speech and policing payments, but what's the harm that someone targets a pair of shorts that I might like or show an ad for a conference I might be interested in?
It's a question of control; no should mean no. Some people don't want to be tracked or monitored by advertising companies and it should be enough to just say so without companies like Facebook always trying to sneak tracking back in via dark pattens, shadow profiles, etc, etc. For example once you've seen a website offer you the same product for different prices based on arbitrary tracking it leaves a bad taste in yo…
So Facebook and Google know your religion, politics and food preferences. So what? How can they harm you with this?
They harm you when they choose what you can say, who you can talk to and who you can do business with. But literally what's the harm of ads? Making your computer a bit slower? That's such a tiny issue it's not even worth talking about.