megantic

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by megantic 13y ago
After failing to fund an ubuntu phone, now they're trying their luck again with a not so cheap, not so good hardware (who wants an intel atom instead of arm?). I use linux but I have come to really dislike ubuntu over time, so this is
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by megantic 13y ago
I cringe when I read their claim to be "the first-ever privacy-focused browser built on chromium". Iron[1] was first released in 2008 to circumvent privacy issues with chrome. I wonder if they did a really poor job at researching
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by megantic 13y ago
Ads. When you use the browser search engine. See the faq on their website.
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by megantic 13y ago
Looks like an attempt at pivoting, jumping of the privacy bandwagon. Doesn't really make a good case that this browser is based on belief of privacy as stated in their faq.
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by megantic 13y ago
1) we'll take another example, let's say you have your own religious views and those get collected in a database, seemingly no harm done here. Then comes a newly elected government with different religious views who decides people
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by megantic 13y ago
Are you saying that it is ok to globally disregard privacy, profile users, sell their data/profile without them knowing or getting a part of this profit because it doesn't make your life worse ?
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by megantic 13y ago
google tracking != anonymized search data
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by megantic 13y ago
That's probably because you don't grasp what can be done with this data, and for how long this data will be around. The bottom line is in the relation between privacy and freedom. There's a few point to raise here: how do yo
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by megantic 13y ago
For sure, but in the case of google this probably doesn't apply. From what was published recently we know NSA has proven methods for bypassing encryption, namely getting the keys used for encryption (so they can decrypt everything) or