The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

https://blog.zgp.org/the-advertising-cartel-coming-to-your-web-browser/

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10 Comments

morto@piefed.social · 14 pts · 68d

I've been ramping up the game as well. Now besides adblocks, I do almost all my online reading without javascript, I avoid all big tech and big brands, both online and physically, I plan on not getting any new equipment for at least 5 years, and I also buy less stuff in general

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 68d

A prime target to fill that system with junk data, me thinks.

goatinspace@feddit.org · 2 pts · 68d (1 reply)

Floorp, fennec. F Firefox

semperverus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 67d

Librewolf is pretty legit.

Arrandee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 68d (5 replies)

I recently started using the Vivaldi browser, which has reduced my ad-tracking footprint appreciably.

Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 68d (4 replies)

I've been using Zen for work and Waterfox personally. With the right extensions, you never see a single ad.

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 68d (3 replies)

I thought zen is neat, but then I saw this test about numbers of connections at startup and zen breaks all records for a Firefox based browser.

Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 68d (2 replies)

What does that mean?

Samsy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 68d (1 reply)

That means it calls home to a lot of services.

Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 67d

Shit, really? That sucks, I was really enjoying it. Now it's one more thing to looK into. thanks for the heads-up.