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Re:Firefox on the Brink? by jampekka on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @04:54PM (#38537462)
Private corporations do the same without you knowing, without any pretence and without even illusion of accountability.

Non-profit is better than gov but private is way worse than even gov.

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Re:Firefox on the Brink? by rdm_blackhole on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:58AM (#38541481)
I don't think this is what being argued here. We know that privacy is an after thought of most companies even in the EU.

But to think that the EU would be the guarantor of everyone's privacy on the web, is completely ridiculous.

Also your argument is not valid. When Google detects that you break their rules they ban your account. When the government has this kind power, then they have the power to do worse things to you, like imprisonment, fines, putting you on a blacklist and much more...

Those two things are not comparable.

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