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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Disable JavaScript, to bypass paywall.

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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[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are you talking about?

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

MV3 for chromium.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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