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I was doing research the other day for my job and it involved all those data broker removal tools. One of them is by incogni and it’s supposedly “better”. They claimed all your data stayed in America except if you checked their JavaScript was literally sending data straight to an analytics company based in Europe.

A different data removal tool called easy opt out on the other hand loaded zero JavaScript at all (or at least third party JavaScript) and had actual security claims on their site. But they haven’t done any audits so don’t trust them either!!!

They declared they have no AI features. The features in Firefox are still AI features. They aren’t needed. They’re a waste of development time and are useless.

I literally say this as someone that has contributed to Firefox.

it’s not subversive. it’s a string, it has no effect on the code output. Only a rogue bot would interpret it as anything except a string. No human user would ever encounter an issue.

the amount of people that do not understand how big of an improvement passkeys are is really saddening. They think that somehow these tech companies are utilizing this in some nefarious way, rather than the very very simple explanation that … tech companies don’t want to be responsible for more breaches.

Passkeys are so simple and such a huge improvement that it’s literally all upsides and no downsides. Either you use their passkey managers like you would their password managers and it’s safer for them, or you use your own password manager with passkeys in it and it’s still safer for them.