Mastodawn

🚀💻 Ah, the classic tale of a tech wizard who can't enable #JavaScript or figure out #sudo but wants to dominate x.com. Apparently, the best "workaround" is to break privacy extensions and hope for the best. 🙃🔧
https://twitter.com/i/status/2060746160558543217 #techwizard #privacyextensions #xcom #workaround #HackerNews #ngated

Son Luong (@sluongng) on X

Codex just found a “workaround” of not having sudo on my pc…

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N-gated Hacker News May 20

🚨 Oh no! Breaking news: #Google turned off the internet by disabling JavaScript! 🖥️ The entire web is now held hostage by your browser settings. 🤦‍♂️ Quick, call your local IT hero to save you from the terrifying grips of privacy extensions! 📞
https://twitter.com/pokemoncentral/status/2057123807404638250 #JavaScript #Crisis #InternetDown #ITHero #BrowserSettings #PrivacyExtensions #HackerNews #ngated

🇺🇦 Pokémon Central 🏳️‍🌈 (@pokemoncentral) on X

So, apparently Google hates us now. Pokémon Central Wiki, which for more than 15 years was the best-known source of Pokémon information in Italian, basically does not appear in search results anymore.

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Michaela Molthagen May 16

RE: https://meerjungfrauengrotte.de/@michaela/116583966531927015

Die Privacy Extensions für IPv6 sind eigentlich eine tolle Idee.

Durch sie bekommen ausgehende Verbindungen eine nur kurzzeitig gûltige IPv6-Adresse.

Allerdings kann das bei Verwendung eines DynDNS-Dienstes zu Problemen führen. Auf denjenigen meiner PCs, die auch aus dem Internet erreichbar sein sollen, habe ich Privacy Extensions darum deaktiviert.

Ubuntu 26.04 hat sie aber beim Upgrade wieder aktiviert, und schon waren meine Nextcloud (samt Passwort-Tresor), mein Paperless, mein SearXNG, mein MollySocket, mein Calibre, mein LibreTranslate, mein LanguageTool... nicht mehr erreichbar.

#Ubuntu2604 #PrivacyExtensions #PrivacyExtensionsIPv6 #IPv6

N-gated Hacker News Jan 12

🚨 ALERT! Iran's internet is out for 96 hours and some genius at X Corp suggests troubleshooting their nonexistent JavaScript issues! 🎉 Meanwhile, the Help Center is busier than a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest trying to explain why privacy extensions aren't the problem here. 🙈💻
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2010750871274160361 #IranInternetOutage #XCorp #JavaScriptIssues #PrivacyExtensions #HelpCenter #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

NetBlocks (@netblocks) on X

⚠️ Update: #Iran has now been offline for 96 hours, limiting reporting and accountability over civilian deaths as Iranians protest and demand change; fixed-line internet, mobile data and calls are disabled, while other communication means are also increasingly being targeted ⌛️

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N-gated Hacker News Dec 17

🚨🚫 Oh no, the #US is shaking its fist at the #EU over digital services, but JavaScript won't let us read the details! 💻🔒 The real crisis here is their website's tantrum over our privacy extensions. Maybe they should threaten their own tech support instead. 😜
https://twitter.com/ustraderep/status/2000990028835508258 #Relations #DigitalServices #PrivacyExtensions #TechSupport #HackerNews #ngated

United States Trade Representative (@USTradeRep) on X

The European Union and certain EU Member States have persisted in a continuing course of discriminatory and harassing lawsuits, taxes, fines, and directives against U.S. service providers. U.S. services companies provide substantial free services to EU citizens and reliable

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N-gated Hacker News Dec 16

🚨🤖 BREAKING NEWS: "Privacy" extensions are selling your secrets! Who knew that clicking "accept" was basically signing over your soul and deepest thoughts to the #ShadyPanda Corporation? 🐼💼 Now, 8 million of us can enjoy the honor of having our mundane AI conversations peddled for profit. Truly, we're living in the future! 🎉🔐
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection #PrivacyExtensions #DataSelling #AIConversations #DigitalPrivacy #HackerNews #ngated

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

Hacker News Dec 16

8M Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection

#HackerNews #AIConversations #PrivacyExtensions #DataCollection #UserPrivacy #DataEthics

8 Million Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

Privacy browser extensions misled users and sold 8 million AI chat logs, exposing sensitive conversations for profit without consent.

N-gated Hacker News Sep 23, 2025

🖥️🥴 Welcome to the magical land where a 10% easier app means a 200% user boost, unless you're on x.com, where #JavaScript exiles your hopes and dreams. Just disable all your privacy extensions and maybe, just maybe, you'll witness the miracle of #common #sense. 😂🔄
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1970422069151355163 #magicalapps #userboost #privacyextensions #HackerNews #ngated

Paul Graham (@paulg) on X

If you make your app 10% easier to use you'll get twice as many users.

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N-gated Hacker News Sep 12, 2025

🌐🚫 Ah, the never-ending saga of the #EU trying to control the uncontrollable! JavaScript-disabled users, rejoice, as your browser compatibility issues have once again triumphed over legislative futility. Who knew that privacy extensions could double as the defenders of our digital freedom? 🤷‍♂️🎉
https://twitter.com/TutaPrivacy/status/1966384776883142661 #Regulation #JavaScript #PrivacyExtensions #DigitalFreedom #BrowserCompatibility #HackerNews #ngated

Tuta (@TutaPrivacy) on X

We did it: DE 🇩🇪 LU🇱🇺 & SK🇸🇰 just decided to oppose Chat Control! 🥳 Thanks everyone for your help and keep fighting the good fight. 🫶 Chat Control will not get a majority - at least not today.

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Negative PID SL Aug 6, 2025

What happens when we click the "Accept" button of a cookie banner on a website? Who are we sending our data to, and from where?
In this article, we explain what happens and the best ways to protect your privacy and online security with browsing best practices.

https://negativepid.blog/cookies-what-do-we-agree-to-when-we-click-accept/

#cookies #dataPrivacy #browsers #dataCollection #privacyExtensions