So instead of multiple providers tracking people all the time there will be a single company doing it, but it’s okay because I should trust them for what reason? Why wouldn’t tracking companies just use their own tracking on top of this new technology?

The divide in these comments perfectly encapsulates why nothing ever gets done when it comes to privacy

Braves adblock is the only technology I know of that gets through the EFF fingerprinting test while still providing a usable experience.

Not worth all the ads and crypto shenanigans though

Patents shouldn’t be valid for more than 5 years imo. If you can’t make a large enough profit from your idea in 5 years maybe it wasn’t that good or original.

I’m not saying they should switch to v8. Ideally they’d make their own performant JS engine but I doubt they actually have the resources for that. I’m just wishing for a browser that’s actually good on all fronts even though it realistically cannot exist

This is awesome, now if they switch to a JS engine that isn’t slow and buggy on my laptop I have 0 reasons to use anything chromium-based anymore

This is huge but let’s see what happens when this inevitably reaches the supreme court

Please fix normal search first i dont need this

NOBODY PIRATES MUSIC ANYMORE, the idea that youtube to mp3 websites actually cause these companies to lose a measurable amount of money is ridiculous at best

Pixels are arguably the most private android since you only get Google tracking. With other androids you get Google tracking on top of all the other tracking

Tutanota is kind of a protonmail competitor but it’s been years since I looked into it idk how they’re doing

Wow excuse my zoomer language but… Who asked?

Kagi pays Google for search results to supplement its index so it will keep reddit results as long as Google lets them

I’ve never bothered to set up an emulator on my phone but it’s a great idea, any recommendations in particular?

Damn you reminded me to check my gmail and there was a domain renewal reminder, thanks!

Updated, my bad.

There are reasons to use this service that are completely legal. They should sentence the people laundering money, not the people providing privacy tools that happen to be misused.

I pirate a bunch of VSTs from audionews.org. It’s private but they give away 10 invites a day in their telegram. You should be fine just pirating stuff older than a few weeks by trusted groups like R2R since malware will get taken down (if it gets detected). Personally I think the risk is tolerable but it’s obviously never 0.

1 and 2: Just pirate. Any company that disrespects the user by enforcing DRM like that deserves to lose out on money.

I don’t know what NowTV is but sometimes you can bypass restrictions like this by using an extension that switches your user agent to chrome on windows.

All the rest: Yeah… It sucks… Most of these issues would be solved if enough people used Linux to make porting stuff a worthwhile investment. It’s a chicken and egg problem but I’m hopeful with the ongoing enshittification of Windows. Surely one day enough people will be tired of eating shit and finally stop doing it.

It’s a step in the right direction