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Comment uBlock Origin & more (Score 1) 191

Google ripped ripped uBlock Origin out of Chrome, and replaced it with the useful but inferior uBlock Origin Lite.
Mozilla did not touch it and it still works great on Firefox.

Chrome has a tendency to leak a lot of data in incognito mode. Partially due to Google's own meddling.
Firefox private and Firefox Focus are significantly better, but not perfect. Mostly because trackers have gotten rather sophisticated.

So I don't consider Chrome to be a viable alternative for an every day browser.

Brave can be an interesting choice if you can hold your nose on the whole cryptocurrency scheme.
Mullvad, LibreWolf, etc are fine too. I'm not convinced they're better than Firefox even in its current declining state.

Comment Journalism died decades ago (Score 1, Insightful) 146

There's a reason traditional media in this country is dying faster than the rest of the world, or even why it's dying at all; it's a steaming pile of horseshit, and has been for a long while. It's not "news", it's propaganda. What's more, it's obviously so; only the dumbest of us actually believe what sources like foxnews, cnn or msnbc "report". By extensions, they don't employ journalists, they employ propagandists.

That said, journalism isn't dead, although it is on life support. Real journalism CAN'T happen at the traditional media companies, so it's moved to the social media space...which nicely explains why they're eating traditional media's lunch.

Note; I'm not saying social media is the pinnacle of truth. Rather, you simply can't find real data from traditional media companies, whereas you CAN from social media ( along with tons of horseshit, yes ).

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