The advertising cartel coming to your web browser

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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

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Floorp, fennec. F Firefox

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Librewolf is pretty legit.

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

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

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

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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.

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What does that mean?

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That means it calls home to a lot of services.

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

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