[ DuckDuckGo Privacy Weekly ] For Apr 8, 2021

• Privacy Is a Collective Concern [newstatesman.com]
  "Defending your privacy – our privacy – is a civic duty," argues Carissa Veliz. "When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.”
• If You Care About Privacy, It's Time to Try a New Web Browser [nytimes.com]
  Is there a bad time to block companies from trying to watch everything you do online? Duck no! Privacy shouldn't be a "mode". Upgrade your mobile browser to one that protects your privacy all the time without any tradeoffs and is faster to boot.
• The Facebook Filter Bubble [aeaweb.org]
  New research explains how Facebook encourages polarization: “In the past, everyone was really concerned about what the editor of The New York Times put above the fold. Now, we should be concerned about what Facebook's algorithm decides to rank higher.”
• I Tried to Use the Ad Tech Industry’s Tool to Opt Out of Personalized Ads. Did It Work? [themarkup.org]
  Using the ad industries “AdChoices” site, you can supposedly opt-out of invasive tracking but Aaron Sankin found this actually wasn't the case.
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• Facebook's Suggestion to Reform Internet Law Is a 'Masterful Distraction,' Says Silicon Valley Congresswoman [cnbc.com]
  At recent tech hearings, Tom Malinowski highlighted this truth about Facebook: “They want us to focus on putting out fires, and not on the fact that their product is flammable. Facebook’s algorithms cause the spread of the very content that they are then forced to remove.”

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