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by janpot 2562 days ago
Exactly, why are we so ok with businesses trying to manipulate us into buying things that we don't ask for? I mean I understand that a business needs to make money, but that shouldn't excuse you for doing this manipulation. You can't excuse unethical behavior just "because I needed to make money". And if it was only about buying things, but this whole industry has become a mass manipulation machine for politicians with bad intententions.
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I wish Mozilla would offer a DNS level content blocker (pihole, NextDns..) with lists curated by the public/volunteers (Sleeping Giants...?). Could be set as default in Firefox, but can be used by anyone, for free.

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