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Re:An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine by fencepost on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:12PM (#19129711)
I find Ghostery (in combination with uBO and uM) useful for identifying the purpose of many of the things blocked so I can selectively unblock where appropriate.
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Re:An ex-YouTube whistleblower on their recommendation engine by kakarot on Sunday February 10, 2019 @03:31PM (#19129823)
You missed the part where Ghostery is anti-user. They even went open source last March in an attempt to turn around the growing bad faith but the motives were very transparent.
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