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LibRedirect – Redirects popular sites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends

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424 points riffraff | 2 comments | 22 Jun 25 06:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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Razengan ◴[22 Jun 25 10:25 UTC] No.44345661[source]▶
How long before browsers disable these kinds of in-user-favor workarounds?

Like Apple removing the "Disable JavaScript" menu option from Safari and moving it into Developer Tools, which can be detected by websites before you can disable JS >:(

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reddalo ◴[22 Jun 25 10:42 UTC] No.44345749[source]▶
I think the real question is: should we keep using browsers that are developed by ad companies? And the answer is no, we should just use Mozilla Firefox.
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1. progval ◴[22 Jun 25 12:07 UTC] No.44346198[source]▶
Mozilla is an ad company now: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/advertising/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-anonym-raising-t...
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2. fsflover ◴[22 Jun 25 21:24 UTC] No.44350407[source]▶
This is not at all comparable with the big companies.