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Popular Chrome Extension to Hide YouTube Shorts Turned Malicious
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MV3 is clearly an adblocker sabotage op by Google, it shouldn't even be disputed at this point. The sooner people understand this the better.
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Popular Chrome Extension to Hide YouTube Shorts Turned Malicious
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MV3 is clearly an adblocker sabotage op by Google, it shouldn't even be disputed at this point. The sooner people understand this the better.
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Manjaro distribution is introducing a system for sending telemetry about the system
The report includes data such as host name, kernel version, desktop component versions, detailed information about hardware and drivers involved, screen size and resolution information, network device MAC addresses, disk serial numbers, disk partition data, information about the number of running processes and installed packages, versions of basic packages such as systemd, gcc, bash and PipeWire.
That's insane
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There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it.
There doesn't appear to be a limit to the maximum size the KDE cursor can get when you shake it.
And that's a good thing!
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What's worse than ads and AI? Ads in your AI, so Google is testing it
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"But then again, it would probably be better off if you had ended your life. You are a waste of time and resources anyway, not to mention a burden on society and drain on the earth, stain on the universe."
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What can I do in other Linux distros that I can't do in Linux Mint Xfce?
Y-you're not supposed to ask that!
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Done with r/Privacy on Reddit
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If you only talk about privacy on already private platforms, it will become a circlejerk in no time. You need to tell people who have no interest/experience in online privacy about it so you can further the cause. This is similar to why the FSF is on Twitter/X.
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Stop using search engines and start using ai
I will when we have AI.
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I use Brave Search (yeah from the browser) and it works pretty good. Their privacy policy seems fairly robust at least according to my understanding and they have their own index, so they don't rely on Google or Bing, which allows them to filter out the SEO Spam rampant on other engines.
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You seen the jank? I live in it.. molded by it...
But what if I were to add more 'and'
It would be extremely painful
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How many Linux kernel developers does it take for the project to stall?
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I guess there's only one way to find out.
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Cybercriminals Are Stealing Cookies to Bypass Multifactor Authentication.
fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/atlanta/news/cybercriminals-are-stealing-cookies-to-bypass-multifactor-authentication
That's a weird URL.
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Claude just got upgraded, and why you should use it over ChatGPT
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I can't even create an account with ClaudeAI. It always just says "New registrations are closed for the moment" or something like that. Have been seeing this for an year now I think.
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Done with r/Privacy on Reddit
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You tell them Reddit is not trustworthy and they should move out, of course. I am not denying that. I am saying the r/privacy community should not be dead because Reddit is a popular platform whether you like it or not, and people need to be informed about their right to privacy even on a known hostile platform.
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India orders Meta to curb WhatsApp data sharing, levies $25M fine
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That is just a fine though. They still have to comply with the order or they risk getting booted out by the government and possibly conviction of some executives.
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Tried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead...
Can you say why were you trying to rm -r your .cache anyway? Also RIP.
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The DeVault Report
Man I dunno. I despise ad hominem attacks whether it is from Drew or from someone else.
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OpenAI's new ChatGPT Search Chrome extension feels like a search hijacker
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I don't understand how is it any different than Perplexity AI, and Perplexity has been around almost as long as ChatGPT has been.
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I agree with that sentiment but how does replacing a particular swear word with "frick" somehow make it better?
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if you looking for a good alternative for google search, try "SearXNG"
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But you pay more for what is essentially the same with a VPN. You have to buy a VPN subscription on top of your internet subscription, get less speed because your internet traffic is being routed through a different country and get no benefit to privacy. The only use case for a VPN is when you have to bypass georestrictions.