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The advertising cartel coming to your web browser (blog.zgp.org)
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[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I've been using Zen for work and Waterfox personally. With the right extensions, you never see a single ad.

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought zen is neat, but then I saw this test about numbers of connections at startup and zen breaks all records for a Firefox based browser.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What does that mean?

[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That means it calls home to a lot of services.

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

Shit, really? That sucks, I was really enjoying it. Now it's one more thing to looK into. thanks for the heads-up.