I was working on a personal project, debugging a Native Messaging helper I had written for it. In the process I needed to check what Brave Browser had registered on my laptop. What I found was a file I had never put there. It was not mine. I had not installed it. I had not authorised it. I had not even been told about it.
It was from Anthropic.
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This guide walks through how to set up Vivaldi’s blocklists from the perspective of someone migrating from “big browser + extension” to “Vivaldi + built-in blocking,” with some extra notes for privacy-minded folks.
Open-source tests of web browser privacy.
We can’t just ignore online advertising — it’s a major driver of how the internet works and is funded. We need to stare it straight in the eyes and try to fix it.
Firefox users are not a captive audience that needs to be coddled, they are generally full-grown adult computer users who need to be listened to
Now, it’s one thing to roll out a new so-called “feature” to benefit behavioural advertising. It’s quite another to make it enabled by default. That’s a piece of deceptive design that has no place in Firefox. Defaults matter. Browser makers know this. It’s no accident that this “feature” was enabled by default.
