Post AxY5thYZnoSMicTzN2 by nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org
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 (DIR) Post #AxXk10xhr1tfwGJpx2 by nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org
       2025-08-25T23:14:40Z
       
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       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
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXkJbMhFONw3Ms3qC by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
       2025-08-25T23:21:06.019436Z
       
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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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXmD74XA94QGwPR56 by nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org
       2025-08-25T23:33:15Z
       
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       @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.
       
 (DIR) Post #AxXmD8LwOuaYFDYqqu by djsumdog@djsumdog.com
       2025-08-25T23:42:19.022758Z
       
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       I don't think it's unwarranted for Mozilla:https://digdeeper.club/articles/mozilla.xhtmlThey 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/firefoxand they have a mitigation guide: https://spyware.neocities.org/guides/firefoxand a full analysis of over a dozen different browsers: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/
       
 (DIR) Post #AxY5thYZnoSMicTzN2 by nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org
       2025-08-26T02:41:52Z
       
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       @djsumdog I don't trust your sources. Sorry for wasting your time.