Fingerprinting isn’t allways synonym of the lack of privacy. But there are differences between fingerprinting for tracking and profiling reasons, which certainly is needed to block or to spoof, and tecnically data needed to show correctly the content of a page, eg the first public IP numbers to show the content in your lenguage, the fonts used, screen resolution, OS, browser engine…, all data which are the same for millon other users. We can block por complete the fingerprinting, but than we’ll see that half of the pages are not shown correctly or don’t even work. It’s always an commitment to set the fingerprint blocking. VPNs add an privacy layer, but dont avoid fingerprintings, used as extension can’t avoid that the browser connect first to the ISP before the VPN can create the tunnel, with which it may serve to skip country restrictions, but you are still seen by your ISP. It don’t also blocking the fingerprinting, except the IP. To stay private depends more on other measures, DNScrypt, not to use apps, search engines and services which logs/share our activity, using ad/trackerblocker… and the most important, common sense, not a tin foil hat. PEBCAK

Nothing new, it’s known since years, with and without AI, Google always had read your Gmail, before AI to show personalized ads, that mean that the mails are also open to third parties. Gmail never was a private mail service.

I’ll never enable it precisely because I understand the security and privacy implications. Windows would be a nice OS without all this crap, bloatware and services to “improve the user experience” and which nobody needs.

In short: yes, because Cloudflare is the man in the middle between you and half the internet, most pages use it’s service.

There are two Windows services which are big Data hogs, slowing down the system and which you can desactivate, the hibernation service, which create temporary duplicates of every open app in a temporary file, so it open this apps after Reboot, it’s not really needed, you can put apps you use regulary simply in the Start avoiding to fill your PC with tons of temp files. Apart the Index service, which stored any change in the file system, to accelerate the search, but this in a modern PC, more if you use an SSD, don’t make much diifference, but save a lot of RAM and CPU.

For customize the UI and the Start menu, which in Win 11 is by default an absolute crap with an chunky Fisher Price design, where you can’t customize not even the Task Bar, you can use WindHawk (FOSS), it’s something like an userscript manager, which permits to change any aspect of the GUI with an click.

This always happens when those who create laws are senile old men who confuse a remote control with a mobile phone or corrupt politicians, paid by lobbies, instead of experts in the corresponding subject.

If you have to use Windows, there are two mandatory apps with which you can turn Windows in an fast, private and submissive OS without nags and trackings, Hellzerg Optimizer and Portmaster. My tweked W11 use less than 1 GB in RAM and the GUI has nothing to do with the (horrible) original one.

It’s about profiling the user, logging his activities and searches, certainly bring more money than these “rewards”.

Not only Chromiums in this alliance, also Geckos there.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/browser-choice-alliance-launch/

EDGE is an usefull app for downloading an Browser in a new Windows.

https://www.goeuropean.org/, there you can find all kind of stuff. but there is anyway an page with all european alternatives in https://european-alternatives.eu/categories.

No, with this to what you say yes or no, you can set it in the browser instead in this Pop-up. All what you don’t want get blocked. This way you set it one time in your browser for all pages you visit. instead ov everytime in each page. The result is the same, but without annoying consent nags. With the GDPR all pages are forced by law to ask for your consents, before with this pop-up, and now following the consent settings in the browser. This is the only difference, less nags for the user. With the page permission settings and the adblocker, this crap anyway get blocked. So this consent window in any case is useless.

Short answer: Yes

It’s not gutting it, it’s changing the system with same result. Instead of annoying cookie consent pop-ups, a setting in the browser with admissible cookies (same as in the pop-up) this way the unwanted cookies are blocked from the browser itself (apart of those which anyway get blocked by the adblocker and privacy settings). With this there isn’t needed anymore this pop-up. It’s a good idea, I think.

The Vaticane don’t fullfit the conditions to be an EU member, they have not signed the Declaration of Human Rights, nor have they officially condemned torture and the death penalty.

Tuta

Murena Workspace

A browser is only a secudary problem in privacy, if you use another than Chrome or Edge, it’s mainly the search engine you use the problem, the sites you visit, the mail you use, the data you publish, your common sense online, there are the main privacy holes.

Well, it’s not in the Eurozone, but it’s strict with the EU Privacy laws, in Europe it’s only the Vatican out of the EU, only in the Eurozone for practical reasons.

Aprivate tab protect nothing, it only prevents that other with access to your PC see which pages you have visited, the web pages see the same with or without privat tab. It’s often misunderstood what private browsing mean. If you want to browse private, there isn’t any other as using an Proxy or VPN, using Portmaster, Glasswire or Pi-Hole on desktop, adjust the site permissions in the privacy settings in your browser, than you can browse more or less private, if you also use an search engine which don’t log your activity. You can visit Browserleaks, there you can see how private you are.

Any webservice, like mail, cloud services and social platform, as even eg, Lemmy and other online platform, is forced to reveal the user data they have, if there is an court order a cause of an criminal investigation. Proton can’t in this case evade the info they have, it is the IP and the account data, content of the mail is encrypted, so they can give only encrypted data in this case.

This has nothing to do with privacy rights, this protect the privacy only from access of private data without an court order in the EU. In the same case as with this activist, also Tuta, Murena and any other private mail service would have done exactly the same thing as Proton.

If you are searched by law, never is a good idea to create an account anywhere. Drug barons use pen and paper for communication because of this.