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Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• joe_jowhat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Duckduckgo once allowed trackers from Microsoft

  Source: www.reuters.com/article/idUSL1N3792HE

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  • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. This only applies to the mobile app
    2. They stopped doing this in 2022
    3. LibreWolf comes with uBlock Origin preinstalled, which blocks all sorts of ads, trackers and other malicious JavaScript

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    • Pantherina@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ublock Origin does not black “malicious Javascript” reliably. You need NoScript for that, and a opt-in approach. Block everything, unblock what you need, hope its not malicious.

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      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        uBO can be set up to block all JS by default, allowing you to manually whitelist each script. github.com/gorhill/…/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode

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      • graeghos_714@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I also run disabling addons for java script and flash as well as an overlay remover in Firefox

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      • Dnn@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        While I actually do that, you cannot seriously recommend it to anyone. Hardly any site works without Javascript nowadays.

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    • spraynpray@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Dehydrated@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Suggest a better alternative then. Startpage, Mullvad Leta and Whoogle are just Google proxies (and Whoogle is pretty unreliable), SearX, SearXNG and 4get are also just proxies for multiple search engines. There are no good independent search engiens, Brave Search sucks because it’s made by Brave, a company notorious for pushing weird NFT and Blockchain shit, Mojeek has pretty bad search results and Kagi requires an account, and only allows 40 searches per month.

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    • joe_jowhat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have nothing to do with Librewolf at all. Don’t confuse the two. I just said what Duckduckgo did with trackers based on a search agreement with Microsoft. BTW, this issue was initially exposed by others, not Duckduckgo itself.

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ddg has content bubbles and tracking that you can stop.

  Turn off location and you will still get results relevant to your area filling the page.

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