Submitted 3 weeks ago by hedge@beehaw.org to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/video/secrets-in-your-data/
I was under the impression that Privacy Badger wasn’t considered useful any more . . . ? They should’ve just recommended using Firefox instead, yes?
Maybe just bad research. I haven’t tried, but I’m sure if you search for “how to protect yourself online” some of the SEO manipulating websites show up in the first results.
Well, they spoke with the EFF which made Privacy Badger, so maybe that’s why. They did the password thing with the dice, tho, which I guess is good.
Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should’ve kept my mouth shut
Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc
- Redundant with Total Cookie Protection (dFPI)
Privacy Badger does more than isolating cookies. It actually block cookies. And completely block connection to some hosts that are dedicated to tracking, which prevent other forms of tracking that aren’t cookie-based.
Wasn’t privacy badger the addon owned by a suspicious company? And telemetry or something?
It’s owned by EFF, which AFAIK is still a trusted org. You might be thinking of Adblock Plus or Ghostery.
Right , Ghostery, my bad.
If you are geoblocked you can stream it with …pbs-video.pbs.org/…/nova5107-AABR-AVC_793.m3u8 with mpv
See also: this thread on Mastodon octodon.social/@cwebber/112451933593063510
vox@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
the only reason I’m still using it is the feature that hides embeeded iframe widgets until a “view” button is clicked