It gets my goat that people think it’s a good option. There are plenty of articles explaining some of the many issues with it, but a few are:

  1. It’s run by anti-LGBTQ+ crypto bros.
  2. It has ads right out of the box.
  3. It collected donations towards people who never signed up for them - then held them to ransom in exchange for the kind of information you should never share on the Internet.
  4. They’re a for-profit advertising company. “Privacy-centric” my elbow.
  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    4·
    22 hours ago

    And you chose to do that or it was a feature that was advertised to you. Adding referral IDs to links you click so the browser company gets money is not comparable to that at all.

    • lad@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      Mind you, I’m not arguing that was crappy, just that not any modification of links is bad

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        I would argue that if you know your browser is stripping tracking info for links then the link you clicked on doesn’t have tracking information.