Acceptable Ads is bullshit on many levels:

• It’s made by an ad company
• The same ad company runs multiple popular ad blockers (including AdBlock Plus)
• There are no standards on privacy invasion

uBlock Origin, or at least uBlock Origin Lite on Chromium-like browsers, are must-haves.

The best browser you can set up for a family member, IMO, is Firefox. Disable Telemetry (which should rid them of Mozilla’s own ad scheme too), install uBlock Origin, remind them to never call or trust any other tech support people who reach out to them, and maybe walk them through some scam baiting videos.

I’m still evaluating which Chrome-likes are best at actual ad blocking, and the landscape is grim.

…For now. Looks like they’re going to get rid of it too (which makes sense, because they copy Chromium’s codebase).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-chromium/developer-guide/manifest-v3

I think that’s the point: Google has been shutting down Manifest V2 extensions one step at a time, and it’s been experimenting with anti-ad-block tech on YouTube with one user group at a time.

disingeneous to call it adding ads

Who called it adding

With all due respect, Mozilla is now (and, for a while, has been) an ad company. When an ad company tells you ads are necessary, you should not trust them. Plenty of lousy things have been entrenched as social norms, but it is the job of the entrenchers to justify their existence… Which Mozilla is definitely not doing here.

Maybe, but Idaho has a IQ level >100 and I have no mental stereotypes about that state besides their recent book bannings.

Next, you’re going to tell me that if we plot IQ score changes over time, they won’t rise over 100 on average! /s

Even if we leave aside every problem with IQ measurements to begin with, what does a state average tell us?

How long until that sort of thing goes the way of Bibliogram/Barinsta?

Brave can keep the old APIs but they’ll still be affected, because developers for Chromium-compatible browsers still have to decide whether they want to create or support apps that will only work in a subset of browsers, and figure out how to distribute them outside the Chromium store.

TIL the things to build a browser take up less space than a package manager… But I don’t do Linux any more hardcore than Ubuntu either

Private, for-profit, and let’s not forget antagonistic to the GDPR.

Corrupt politicians can simply ignore the law. If they didn’t ignore it, they wouldn’t be very corrupt.

If I need to fudge info, I tend to put it into a password database’s “notes” field for easier note-keeping, FWIW.

Not a full-on identity, but bits of info like stated name, address, etc.

Extremely intended! They built a model to lie and a surrogate model to say the first model was being truthful.

They called it LaundryML.

Considering the news about OneRep… Definitely steer clear of Mozilla’s scrubbing service.

OneRep is what Mozilla uses to remove your data from the internet, if you pay them for Monitor Plus.

Didn’t somebody make a biased AI and a laundering AI to say it wasn’t biased, just to demonstrate how easy it was to do?

Telegram hasn’t been secure since basically day 1. IIRC it went something like

Security experts: Never roll your own cryptography.
Telegram: We rolled our own cryptography!
Security experts: Don’t. And it’s broken.
Telegram: uhhhh… We fixed it.
Security experts: It still looks really bad. Stop it.
Telegram: says nothing

I assume steering too, right?

i.e. a “If you brick your car’s firmware, at least you can keep driving without unreasonable levels of difficulty or distraction” situation.