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Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners by delfinom on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:03PM (#33264966)
Which is fucked up, that shit should be opt in like anything else.
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Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners by minerva23 on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @01:49PM (#33265581)
I’m not as passionate about it as you, but I agree they broke their principal of being for the user by making it opt out. Among other issues, making it opt out makes it seem like large sites (like Twitter) endorse BAT. Maybe they do, but I doubt it.
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Re:Brave browser now blocks cookie banners by behnamoh on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @02:18PM (#33265944)
Even Firefox's telemetry is opt-out.
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