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   evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 01-Oct-2023 10:14:43 JST evacide

   If you're mad at EFF for making it possible to use Chrome with less tracking instead of yelling at people to use a different browser, then I assume you have never heard of harm reduction. Giving people digital privacy and security advice means meeting people where they're at. Otherwise, you're just running your mouth to make yourself feel smart.

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     tsk (tasket@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:17:45 JST tsk

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     @evacide EFF should be advising their followers to step out of the box that makes them the product. "Harm reduction" my ass.

     I am no longer a follower, or a paying member. What I'm seeing lately is both moral and technical decline.

     PS - Its hard to see an impact from EFF's fractional "harm reduction" when Google just shoved Chrome users into a new surveillance mode because too many were opting out of the old mode with blockers like uBlock Origin. If your workaround becomes popular, then #Google will react again with yet another scheme. That math won't add up. It is not reasonable to assume that Google is anything less than hostile to privacy at this point, but the EFF's behavior has been mollifying. #chrome

     Doubtless your defenders here would dismiss all of this as some kind of FOSS purist pedantry, but it should concern you that their excuses sound like the old Internet Explorer hype of yore. With followers like that, something has gone wrong.

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     novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️ (anarchopunk_girl@kolektiva.social)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:20:30 JST novatorine 🏴🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Ben From KC

     @benfromkc @evacide except using a particular browser program isn't a natural, normal, and basically inevitable part of human experience for most people that is one of the basic core needs, and so learning how to do it safely makes more sense than just saying not to do it, like with sex. Using Google Chrome is more like going out with an abusive partner.

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     Ben From KC (benfromkc@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Oct-2023 04:20:31 JST Ben From KC

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     @evacide

     Sounds like a debate I've heard about a different topic. It's almost like giving people help and education on a thing is a better idea than just telling them to never use it. Shocking.