245 sats \ 2 replies \ @frostdragon 25 Apr \ on: Is there a good overview of who on the internet knows what? privacy
This is such a great question... I'm going to look into how difficult it would be to put something like this together.
But it's going to be a massive project because it really depends on what kind of service you're using. For example, if you're on a website that's using third party integrations, there's always a question about how much access to your traffic on that website does the third party have. Facebook and Google are all up in everything. Ethical integrity and security competence are such unknown variables.
And stuff like this happens: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/07/ftc-gives-final-approval-order-banning-betterhelp-sharing-sensitive-health-data-advertising
Like, any server you interact with could have a lot of data about you, and who knows if they're selling it or leaking it.
And then metadata makes all of this even more complicated.
I have a friend that keeps asking me if he should use an alternative browser or email service, and I keep telling him Google is getting so much of his metadata either way, you might as well just use chrome because it's more secure in a lot of other ways.
I would reword this to say a nation state probably COULD find out a hell of a lot about you and your traffic if they took the time to target you. They'd have to get info from ISPs and big tech corporations to piece things together.
My general recommendation is to use a lot of burner accounts so that things aren't all pointing back to a single identity.
This is such a great question... I'm going to look into how difficult it would be to put something like this together.
It would be worth just having a list of better, more specific questions than the one I asked. Your reply already gave me a lot to think about.
For instance, it jostled my memory that there was a big todo about browser fingerprinting a couple years ago. (Or rather: that's when I learned what a big deal it was.) Just knowing that there is such a thing as browser fingerprinting, and why it's nefarious, is more than I had before. I played around with an EFF site to get an intution. I'm sure there are a million things like that.
My general recommendation is to use a lot of burner accounts so that things aren't all pointing back to a single identity.
I wonder if there's a tool to help manage all these identity slivers? That might be a dumb thing that turns out to be practically very useful.
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I wonder if there's a tool to help manage all these identity slivers?
Like anything in that space, it's going to be tough to balance security and user experience... A well organized 1password account is a great step in that direction though.
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