this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2025
76 points (97.5% liked)

privacy

7032 readers
64 users here now

Big tech and governments are monitoring and recording your eating activities. c/Privacy provides tips and tricks to protect your privacy against global surveillance.

Partners:

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Challenge them to watch 10 YouTube videos or browse 10 websites on their machine vs your machine. Then ask them to save the YouTube video as an .mp3 file.

It's always horrifying when I start up a default Edge browser and load literally any webpage. Popover frames, video and audio ads that autoplay, floating ad windows. They'll all technically have the ability to close them as long as you can touch the 3 pixel wide X button that is directly over the ad so mis-clicking loads a different web page or starts the Windows Store or some other nonsense.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was going to say "it's okay, at least I installed an ad blocker." But I remembered that Google disabled that shit on all Chrome based browsers including Edge.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, manifestv3 killed anything but the most basic ad blocking.