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State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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Pretty creepy that they need my email to tell me which of the shockingly few services they're asking about are creepy.

There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.

It appeared immediately here.

More bothered by the embeds from fundraiseup.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, shpg.org .

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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"mental health apps"? This is like offering heroin to a junkie... The overwhelming cause of millenial mental health issues are related to an overindulgence in pretending that electronic communication is a "commmunity", a place with their "friends". Living, You're doing it wrong! Get the app...

Do you have any source for that?

People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have any source for that?

People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.

It could also be that chronically depressed people tend to get addicted to the internet. It's very error-prone to assume causal links by how things look.

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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post #7

Of popular gadgets, Garmin watches (at least fenix series) can work without any additional connectivity and will do all metrics processing on the device.

Even huami (Xiaomi or amazfit) watches, while terrible for privacy out of the box, can be made super privacy friendly with gadgetbridge. An open source sync app that doesn't even have internet access.

And they're a lot cheaper, thinner and lighter than Garmin has to offer, and run weeks on battery <3

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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The majority of Mozilla Corporation’s revenue is from royalties earned through Firefox web browser search partnerships around the world.

Royalties for the non-profit corporation from web browser search partnerships.

Technically this is Poetry, nothing creepy about it.

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People chronically addicted to the internet tend to be depressed. This is a anecdote though but I get it.

It could also be that chronically depressed people tend to get addicted to the internet. It's very error-prone to assume causal links by how things look.

Very good point.

Re: State of Online Privacy Reaches 'Creepy' Level

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a button to skip it, though you might have to first click on the input box to get it to show up.

It appeared immediately here. More bothered by the embeds from fundraiseup.com, google-analytics.com, googletagmanager.com, sentry.io, shpg.org .

I agree.

I find the content Mozilla Foundation posts to be very good (their podcast, research and articles are excellent). However, when they rely on Google for funding the browser and invoke tracking into their website it does scream a bit of whitewashing. Hopefully they are able to fix that to be more morally consistent.

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