Privacy

50,709 readers

5,159 active

619 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

moderators

Google is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser is Safe. (www.quippd.com)

submitted 2 years ago by yoasif@fedia.io to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

75 comments fedilink hide all child comments

We’ve been anticipating it for years,1 and it’s finally happening. Google is finally killing uBlock Origin – with a note on their web store stating that the ...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What pisses me off is seeing more and more "You need to upgrade your browser for this site!" when using Firefox.

Having to use a spoof header gets frustrating frequently too.

permalink

fedilink

source

hideshow 6 child comments

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 2 years ago

In my head I respond “you need to upgrade your website to handle my rad browser, fellas”

permalink

fedilink