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Four-quadrant meme

Upper Left: Chrome Browser Logo; PayPal Honey logo; VeePN Logo.
Upper Right: Laughing Men In Suits (And Then I Said meme)

Bottom Left: Fennec F-Droid app icon; Privacy Badger logo; UBlock Origin logo; Decentraleyes logo.
Bottom Right: "Afraid to loose money stock photo": Stock photo of middle-aged white male on couch holding three US hundred dollar bills with a mildly frightened facial expression.

edit: also thanks to the peeps who identified the logos so I didn't have to reverse image search every single one of them

Thanks for reminding me to remove Honey. I've had it for a while and never used it. Went to use it a bit ago and it made my cart more expensive lmao

Honey hasnt found me a coupon in probably over a year. Idk how it didn't click to me until now that its just more spyware. Theres no way the big corps are just okay with people paying less for evwrything unless they get something else out of it

Isn't privacy badger kind of redundant with ublock origin? Chameleon might be a good alternative as I'm always worried my extensions will give me a unique fingerprint.

Yeah Privacy Badger is redundant, Privacy Guides only recommends installing uBlock Origin and changing some settings in Firefox to decrease the uniqueness in your browser fingerprint.
- i still have privacy badger just incase

It should tell us something that corporations will gleefully scrape up as much of our data as possible (even if we don't use their services) but trying to get info out of a corporation (even stuff you have a direct legal entitlement too) is like getting blood from a stone.

That would be cool if there was an open source federated alternative to Honey for coupon codes

what would federation add here
- Buzzword...
- It would allow anyone to spin up their own self hosted instance that shares collected coupon codes with other instances

Wait... UblockOrigin alone isn't enough?

If you add the url shortener lists and set firefox Enhanced Teacking Protection to strict (enforces first party isolation), you only need Canvas Blocker.
- i didn't know that.Thanks.
- dont use firefox use librewolf (a fork of firefox)

Decentraleyes is a bit outdated. LocalCDN does the same thing and is more up-to-date.
- Thanks, I didn't know that. I'm learning now things on Lemmy!

Anyone else think the logo for Fennec is better than Firefox

I'm not familiar with all the logos, mind filling me in?

That's ~~librewolf~~, Privacy Badger, UBlock Origin and Decentraleyes if I'm not wrong.
Edit : Fennec, not Librewolf
- You got all but one right. The logo is a little bit hard to find by searching, but the icon on the left is Fennec, a version of Firefox for Android.

how does honey work

Searches their database for a coupon code whenever it detects you're on a store checkout page, then blasts all the coupon codes into the little box rapid fire. Sometimes it works, usually it doesn't. PayPal then collects your browsing data through the plugin and sells it off.

is it ok to have ublock origin and badger at the same time?

I run this duo on every browser I open
I feel like I had badger for a while but it seemed to break so many things I was trying to access... Sites seem to really not like you having it installed. Was I just not using it right, or has it gotten better?

honey also be breaking my React code 😒

how does honey work