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Why is this episode of NOVA about data privacy recommending Privacy Badger?

I was under the impression that Privacy Badger wasn't considered useful any more . . . ? They should've just recommended using Firefox instead, yes?

EDIT: They spoke to, but IMHO, did not give enough time to, Cory Doctorow and Brewster Kahle. They mentioned Mastodon 👍, and described the Fediverse while not actually calling it that! A bit frustrating.

bbbhltz ,
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If you are geoblocked you can stream it with https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/nova/de12ed2c-17e6-4434-a430-7f80c26a6002/2000426341/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova5107-AABR-AVC_793.m3u8 with mpv

See also: this thread on Mastodon https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112451933593063510

Hirom , (edited )

Ghostery, Disconnect, Privacy Badger, etc

Privacy Badger does more than dFPI. dFPI just isolate cookies. Privacy Badger blocks cookies. And completely block connection to some hosts that are dedicated to tracking, which prevent other forms of tracking that aren't cookie-based.

vox ,
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the only reason I'm still using Privacy Badger is the feature that hides embeeded iframe widgets until a "view" button is clicked (for example, embeeded tweets etc)

MonkderDritte ,

Wasn't privacy badger the addon owned by a suspicious company? And telemetry or something?

scytale ,

It’s owned by EFF, which AFAIK is still a trusted org. You might be thinking of Adblock Plus or Ghostery.

MonkderDritte ,

Right , Ghostery, my bad.

bbbhltz ,
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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.

hedge OP ,

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.

bbbhltz ,
@bbbhltz@beehaw.org avatar

Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should've kept my mouth shut

kath ,
@kath@kbin.social avatar

pbs.org is yt-dlp compatible

hedge OP ,

That's good to know, thanks!

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