“This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
    12·
    2 days ago

    One of the most overlooked, underused, and still hasn’t seen production release privacy settings is the ability to partition, or not decorate visited links.

    In Firefox based in about:config

    
layout.css.visited_links_enabled    

false

    In chromium based in chrome://flags

    Partition the Visited Link Database, including 'self-links'

Enabled
    • FEIN@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      so search engines like google can’t see what sites you’ve visited anymore. genius, never occurred to me that they could track that. thanks for the tip