Data-mining giants be like : memes

[-] kenblu24@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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Four-quadrant meme

Upper Left: Chrome Browser Logo; PayPal Honey logo; VeePN Logo.
Upper Right: Laughing Men In Suits (And Then I Said meme)

Bottom Left: Fennec F-Droid app icon; Privacy Badger logo; UBlock Origin logo; Decentraleyes logo.
Bottom Right: "Afraid to loose money stock photo": Stock photo of middle-aged white male on couch holding three US hundred dollar bills with a mildly frightened facial expression.

edit: also thanks to the peeps who identified the logos so I didn't have to reverse image search every single one of them

[-] pokexpert30@lemmy.pussthecat.org 9 points 1 year ago

Holy fucking shit, very good Human

[-] Drystan_Furor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Far out

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

how does honey work

[-] Ignisnex@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Searches their database for a coupon code whenever it detects you're on a store checkout page, then blasts all the coupon codes into the little box rapid fire. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't. PayPal then collects your browsing data through the plugin and sells it off.

[-] Blazingflames6073@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

[-] rolofox@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

is it ok to have ublock origin and badger at the same time?

[-] ILurkAndIKnowThings@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I run this duo on every browser I open

[-] nondescript_citizen@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I feel like I had badger for a while but it seemed to break so many things I was trying to access... Sites seem to really not like you having it installed. Was I just not using it right, or has it gotten better?

[-] WildlyCanadian@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Thanks for reminding me to remove Honey. I've had it for a while and never used it. Went to use it a bit ago and it made my cart more expensive lmao

[-] Stelus42@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Honey hasnt found me a coupon in probably over a year. Idk how it didn't click to me until now that its just more spyware. Theres no way the big corps are just okay with people paying less for evwrything unless they get something else out of it

[+] DAC_Protogen@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] understandable@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Decentraleyes is a bit outdated. LocalCDN does the same thing and is more up-to-date.

[-] fabian_drinks_milk@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I didn't know that. I'm learning now things on Lemmy!

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It should tell us something that corporations will gleefully scrape up as much of our data as possible (even if we don't use their services) but trying to get info out of a corporation (even stuff you have a direct legal entitlement too) is like getting blood from a stone.

[-] lymingseng@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Wait... UblockOrigin alone isn't enough?

[-] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you add the url shortener lists and set firefox Enhanced Teacking Protection to strict (enforces first party isolation), you only need Canvas Blocker.

[-] Yoz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i didn't know that.Thanks.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

dont use firefox use librewolf (a fork of firefox)

[-] burndown@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Claims like this need a reason 🤦‍♂️

[-] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not OP, but it has better default settings for privacy IIRC. Nothing you can't do in default FF mind you

[-] burndown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you!

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

honey also be breaking my React code 😒

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not familiar with all the logos, mind filling me in?

[-] EvilBlackCat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's ~~librewolf~~, Privacy Badger, UBlock Origin and Decentraleyes if I'm not wrong.

Edit : Fennec, not Librewolf

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 1 points 1 year ago

You got all but one right. The logo is a little bit hard to find by searching, but the icon on the left is Fennec, a version of Firefox for Android.

[-] Bonskreeskreeskree@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Why should someone use fennec over regular firefox

[-] imAadesh@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Use Mull over Fennec though, hardens security with settings taken from arkenfox user.js.

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

That would be cool if there was an open source federated alternative to Honey for coupon codes

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

what would federation add here

[-] BlessedDog@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Buzzword...

[-] zach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Everything must be in the cloud, federated, and AI

[-] lemmychatwitpeeps@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Isn't privacy badger kind of redundant with ublock origin? Chameleon might be a good alternative as I'm always worried my extensions will give me a unique fingerprint.

[-] WaveWood@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah Privacy Badger is redundant, Privacy Guides only recommends installing uBlock Origin and changing some settings in Firefox to decrease the uniqueness in your browser fingerprint.

[-] PepperDust@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

i still have privacy badger just incase

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