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China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle (www.wired.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/privacy

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Chinese black market operators are openly recruiting government agency insiders, paying them for access to surveillance data and then reselling it online—no questions asked.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You don't really need to disable JS. uBlock Origin is enough, it seems.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Considering how things are going for uBlock Origin, I would recommend disabling JavaScript over uBlock, as it face uncertain future.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

How are things going for uBlock Origin? Most privacy minded people here don't use Chromium based browsers. It works perfectly fine on firefox based browsers. And it's not like it not being available on chromium based browsers made it worse on firefox as well.

[–] Kissaki 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

MV3 for chromium.

[–] 0x0 3 points 5 months ago

Meanwhile the US surveillance state does it as a full-time job.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I personally use Noscript, it gives control to allow javascript.