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Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit (www.404media.co)
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This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

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[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

One of the most overlooked, underused, and still hasn't seen production release privacy settings is the ability to partition, or not decorate visited links.

In Firefox based in about:config


layout.css.visited_links_enabled    

false

In chromium based in chrome://flags

Partition the Visited Link Database, including 'self-links'

Enabled
[-] FEIN@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

so search engines like google can't see what sites you've visited anymore. genius, never occurred to me that they could track that. thanks for the tip

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