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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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Brower Data - Why are they not doing more? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by Squizzy@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Apple wont give gyro data but firefox will, firefox wont give battery data but chrome will. Everyone gives screen size and density data.

Why are these data points not discussed with privacy?

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[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

I think there are a few valid reasons. I made a page for my friends for some videos of their adopted puppy they wanted to share. Absolutely ZERO trackers, ZERO fingerprinters. Just oldschool pre-enshittification web page. But CSS wasn't enough to dynamically switch the vdieo res when windows were resized, without losing current playback spot. It needed a little JS. Not much! Tiny and you could just look to see it did nothign bad.

Prob is, abuses by Big Evil Tech now overwhelm non-shitty uses. And we're left with a completely enshittified web. Full of fingerprinters and trackers and web bugs. Inescapable surveilence b/c they abuse every possible signal to track ppl.

This is why we cannot have nice things.