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  • I would say, if anything, the fear is likely under-blown.

    Sure, you’ll find many users here on Lemmy who hate what Google are doing… but we’re not the typical internet user. I mean, we specifically found this niche platform called Lemmy rather than use one of the mainstream social media platforms. The typical “normie” who uses Chrome probably has no idea about the privacy risks of using it (either in its current form or when the Topics API is being used). We need to help others understand, and hopefully convince these people to move over to Firefox.


  • Except you’re giving your passwords in an encrypted format. So if the company is trustworthy, it’s safe to let them store your passwords because it’s encrypted in such a way that even the company who own the password manager couldn’t access your passwords even if they wanted to.

    (Note the caveat of “IF the company is trustworthy”, which rules out Lastpass)

    Now I accept that there are legitimate arguments against storing passwords in the cloud via a password manager… so in that case, you may wish to use a local password manager (like Keepass) instead. But realistically, a typical person isn’t capable of memorising lots of unique, secure passwords… so the passwords need to be written down or stored in a password manager, just to avoid weak passwords or password reuse.


  • You don’t need to apologise. The comment OP asked how Canada was doing, then the next commenter gave their opinion on the UK, not Canada.

    It confused me as I read through the comment chain, as I was also expecting a comment on Canada (not UK).

    It’s probably worth mentioning that the UK has a parliamentary system, not a presidential system. So the people elect a party, and the party leader then becomes prime minister (but the party can decide amongst itself who the next party leader should be, and this is usually done by a vote among party members).

    Now there are legitimate criticisms of whether this is a democratic process, but the person who you replied to seemed to suggest that the recent change of prime ministers without elections was unusual and evidence of the UK “plummeting”. This user is entitled to his/her opinion, of course, but I just wanted to point out that this is actually constitutional and common practice in the UK.

    “Far from being unusual, it’s actually the norm for Prime Ministers to enter office outside of a general election.”

    Source: https://fullfact.org/news/unelected-prime-ministers-common-or-not/


  • RIP_Apollo@feddit.chtoFirefox@lemmy.mlStop using Brave Browser
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    Do you have a source for the claim that DuckDuckGo browser is selling user data to Microsoft?

    You might be referring to the time when the DuckDuckGo browser was blocking all known trackers except Microsoft trackers. After that information was made public and users complained, DuckDuckGo was able to renegotiate its agreement with Microsoft so that it can block their trackers.

    Furthermore, DuckDuckGo now publish their blocklist on GitHub.

    Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts

    So this privacy issue has been rectified now. But even if it hadn’t, failing to block Microsoft trackers isn’t the same as collecting data and selling it to Microsoft.

    But if you are aware of DDG browser selling data to Microsoft, please share a source.


  • Could you please explain why you don’t think Brave is privacy friendly?

    I think Brave Search has a really good privacy policy.

    Brave Search is designed to be private by default. We don’t collect personal information about you, your device or your searches. We also don’t transmit information to the web that could be used to profile you or track you or learn anything about you. Your searches are private to YOU.

    It’s also worth noting that Brave has its own search index… as opposed to DuckDuckGo which uses Bing, and StartPage which uses Google.

    Although admittedly this does mean that the search results from Brave Search isn’t the best at the moment. Hopefully this will improve with time.


  • Are you referring to the time when the DuckDuckGo browser was blocking all known trackers except Microsoft trackers? After that information was made public and users complained, DuckDuckGo was able to renegotiate its agreement with Microsoft so that it can block their trackers.

    Furthermore, DuckDuckGo now publish their blocklist on GitHub.

    Source: https://techcrunch.com/2022/08/05/duckduckgo-microsoft-tracking-scripts

    It’s worth clarifying that this issue affected the DuckDuckGo browser, not the search engine itself.

    So if you were refusing to use DuckDuckGo browser on the basis that they allow Microsoft tracking, then that issue has been resolved now. But if you were saying that this incident has made you lose trust in DDG and that’s why you refuse to use it… well, that’s fair enough. It’s your choice, but I personally would trust DDG more than StartPage, just because StartPage is owned by an ad company.