OP:

posts about tracking and not consenting to give data away

also OP:

uses Google Chrome

Exactly what I was thinking!

AdGuard. You can get a lifetime license through stack social for anywhere between $16-$30. It also does HTTPS filtering.

OP blocked for clickbait.

Relevant Bojack scene

Niether are open source, but the full versions of AdGuard for each platform, Adguard Public DNS and DuckDuckGo.

When it comes to streaming devices, nothing beats Apple TV in my opinion.

Outside the Apple TV app itself, the OS has very little ads. The only thing I dislike about it is the lack of Kodi + Google Drive plug in, but Infuse Pro works.

If your browser supports PWAs, I’d reccomend that over the electron app you linked. You’d get better performence, and it would be snappier.

I’d rather directly use Bing and utilize the ‘Give with Bing’ feature to donate to a non-profit of choice; when I did use Bing, I did it for LGBT and LGBT Youth.

Asked how likely big companies would be to abuse their data, Americans were most wary of TikTok (59 percent), followed by: Meta (56 percent), X/Twitter (49 percent), OpenAI (48 percent), Google (44 percent), Apple (41 percent), Amazon (40 percent), Microsoft (38 percent), Comscore (32 percent), and Adobe (31 percent).

I’m surprised people trust Microsoft and Amazon more than Apple; Amazon needs all the data they can get on you to build “better” profiles on what to sell you, ties your Alexa requests to feed advertising (you can opt out) and Microsoft, especially with Edge (post advertising and services team takeover) has been trying to send everything to Microsoft to feed both ads and their AI. FFS, even Outlook warns you now that they’ll share your data with >800 “partners”.

Apple is no saint, far from it, but people trust a conglomerate over it?

What does this have to do with privacy?

Users like this is exactly why you don’t need a VPN; you clearly have no understanding of how they work.

!piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

/r/Piracy is just a bunch of memes, and this community actively talks about piracy, it’s ethical philosophy and taking control over your media. There are people who pirate everything regardless of circumstances, but for the most part, I’d argue its people who have been burnt by companies whom they trusted.

I always saw this as just a way to compete with Google.

Bad comparison. There is no such thing as the ‘Apple Pay app’. Everything is done through the Wallet app, Apple Pay uses the wallet app.

Have you been under a rock?

I watched DS9 for the first time last year, and that Rom scene had me laughing so hard!

That’s why I like reeder on Apple devices.

Instead of needing yet another service to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them sync + potentially pay a fee for service, Reeder allows users to subscribe locally and sync it to iCloud across all devices. It was and is a major appeal of the app compared to others in the Apple ecosystem.

My conservative father listens to some dude called “Creed Fisher”; the dude literally sings about people who don’t have good ol’ fashion American Patronism and that he’ll “kick their ass” for not having it. It is so cringy.

FWIW: I don’t identify with conservatives or liberals.