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   Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 08:21:11 JST Nate Bartram

   Here's a better way to disable it:

   1. Switch to Brave or Firefox (w/uBlock Origin)
   2. Switch to a different search engine (The New Oil lists several great choices)

   I mean, I appreciate the harm reduction, but honestly there's literally no reason to keep using Chrome or Google Search at this point. Zero. All the upsides can be replicated elsewhere.

   https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/115089902374383721

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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 08:21:10 JST djsumdog

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     I'd recommend Librewolf today, since Mozilla is now a spyware / "advertising" company now. Either that or find a good userscript that disabled all the Mozilla tracking and telemetry.
     
     Let's hope Ladybird becomes viable in the next 5 years 🤞Right now the options are not great.
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     djsumdog (djsumdog@djsumdog.com)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 08:43:07 JST djsumdog

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     I don't think it's unwarranted for Mozilla:
     
     https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtml
     
     They have done a lot of shady stuff. Some of the stuff in that article is a little over the top (like basic utm tags) but a lot of it is legit Mozilla bullshit. They collect a lot of information.
     
     This post is more technical: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox
     
     and they have a mitigation guide: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefox
     
     and a full analysis of over a dozen different browsers: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
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     Nate Bartram (nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Aug-2025 08:43:08 JST Nate Bartram

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     • djsumdog

     @djsumdog Respectfully, can we as a community stop calling everything "spyware"? It's really dramatic and it takes out the level of concern people should have when we talk about ACTUAL spyware like Pegasus or those spouse-stalkerware apps.

     I shit on Mozilla as much as the next person who has a brain, but this level of teenage melodrama really isn't doing us any favors.