We released a new version of Privacy Badger that updates how we fight “link tracking” across a number of Google products. With this update Privacy Badger removes tracking from links in Google Docs, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images results. Privacy Badger now also removes tracking from links added after scrolling through Google Search results.
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Or… Avoid Google products unless absolutely necessary,
I can honestly say I don’t hit any front-end Google server for a few days to a week at a time. Occasionally I look some obscure technical issue that only Google search finds and that’s usually when I break my streak. Otherwise, there are plenty of alternatives to get you 80% of the way there functionally without touching Google with a 10-ft pole.
Of course, and despite my best efforts, my browser probably hits a lot of back-end Google servers - you know, the gstatic.com, google.com and such that other websites inflict on you and you can’t avoid half of the times without breaking the site.
Would badger break ublock?
no
Oh ok, just hears from other users that they conflict :3
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I used Privacy Badger for years, but recently removed it because it was breaking so many sites. ublock + adguard is good enough for me.
I’ve used uBlock Origin & Privacy Badger for years, over a wide variety of different types of websites, and haven’t had any problems.
I use ublock, but I think it is more aggressive than badger, can’t remember it broke some, but will keep an eye
What’s the reason to use Google services to begin with? Asking because I’m genuinely curious.
Some of us have to work with people who are still neck deep in the google swamp, and who use their online office suite for sharing documents.
Other than that, do you know if there’s a better search engine that can search by image?
Agree with sibling: Youtube and Search. All the other supposedly essential Google services are not really essential, especially Gmail.
YouTube is basically the only video platform where the vast majority video creators are gathered on. PeerTube and the likes are nice, but for the most part, don’t even play in the same league, IMHO. YMMV depending on the content you like to consume, of course.
I mostly use a combination of DDG/Brave, but I have to fall back on Google Search way more often than I’d like to find some things. Especially for local (geographically speaking) stuff or non-English content…
It sucks that they dominate so much, but it’s not particularly difficult to guess why your average person still use them, no?
I wrote this while drunk as fuck, and completely forgot that YouTube exists lmfao
You mean people don’t just live in a bunker in the middle of nowhere using Thor to browse Lemmy?
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For those of you that don’t want to install another add-on, this filter for uBlock does a similar thing: https://filterlists.com/lists/clearurls-for-ublock-origin
https://filterlists.com/lists/actually-legitimate-url-shortener-tool is bigger list and is updated more often.
Excuse my ignorance, but how are these added to Ublock, as it seems such a sensible thing to do?
Sorry, just seen this. Glad someone else sorted you out.
If you follow that link you will see ‘Subscribe’ towards the bottom, that will add it to uBo
Much appreciated!
Also good for cases where a website reads your active addons. Ublock users > users of privacy badger + ublock
I don’t think that’s possible nowadays. On Firefox at least, chrome still makes it possible through web accessible resources of the extensions