I've been using CAD (Cookie-AutoDelete) to do exactly that:
https://github.com/Cookie-AutoDelete/Cookie-AutoDelete
Edit: I'm well aware that FireFox/Chrome support this natively, but with this I can share my exclusion rules between browsers and devices, albeit with manual import/exports.
No worries, still thank you for sharing with the community! <3
Could I have Baldur's Gate 1? :)
And as proof that I'm human, just click on my name and see my +300 Lemmy comments/posts on various topics x)
Oh yeah I know!
Lately I aim to only install FOSS apps from F-Droid for that reason.
If no F-Droid app available / only Play Store, then I always scan them with ClassyShark3xodus against trackers.
If they're filled with trackers (very likely) and not absolutely nessecary for my daily workflow, I uninstall them immediately.
Currently about 75% of my apps come from F-Droid, and hope to only increase that percentage! :)
Bose headphone owner + IT guy here,
their app is filled to the brim with spyware last time I checked!
Uninstalled it immediately after de-compiling and scanning for known trackers with ClassyShark3xodus.
No regrets, the headphones work perfectly well without that stupid app!
~~Are you certain that they still are voting this week?~~
Nvm, indeed the timeline on Patrick Breyer's site mentions:
12 December 2024: EU interior ministers to confirm mandatory chat control (chat control 2.0) proposal
https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#timeline
~~Are you certain that they still are voting this week?~~
I thought it was last week and that it was stopped again (for now at least),
see the message by Patrick Breyer here: https://lemmy.ml/post/23312136
But if you still want to take action anyways, which can't hurt,
I've found following Change.org petitions regarding it:
Good, only 96% to go.
Next time you get consumerism cravings,
try out a new open source app of some sort!
Looking for one feels like shopping / getting a new thing.
It won't upset your wallet,
it will likely make you happy,
it will make the developer of the app happy,
and it will likely be good for your privacy/battery life as well!
This is actually quite good news!
Hear me out though.
Encryption has been under attack by government instances for a while now.
They always aim to weaken / backdoor it,
so that they can spy on all their citizens.
China abused the backdoor implemented by the US government,
which sends a message across the world,
being: "Do not backdoor encryption to spy on your citizens, or other countries might abuse it"
Hopefully this will put a stop to governments attacking encryption, at least for a while,
since now they're reminded of the risks which it brings! :)
Bootkitty?
However,
you can already patch your BIOS to become secure again! :)
All in all, Windows security is a joke compared to Linux's.