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60 sats \ 5 replies \ @elvismercury 1 Mar
Argh this shit is so annoying, I feel like I have to devote myself to full-time study to understand wtf the story is.
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27 sats \ 2 replies \ @NovaRift 1 Mar
It's telling you that no browser out there can fully protect your browser fingerprints, tracking ads, etc. Tor is an option, but most sites break. Article is very good though; no fake claims are made, and they provide examples as well.
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115 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 1 Mar
I'm speaking more generally about the state of the "browsing the web" ecosystem, where browser privacy, fingerprinting, network spying, surveillance by god and man, the whole fucking mess is so confusing and complicated and full of claims from a zillion different parties, e.g., on one of the podcasts on that same site is a story about why Mullvad is apparently also bad for some reason I can't ascertain.
I have ample education in these areas and it's overwhelming and disheartening. I weep to consider the normies. I just want to use the fucking web and not give up the entire game to a million different parties who want to harvest my identity and my organs. I would like to just pay money and be the customer and go about my business god damn it.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @NovaRift 1 Mar
What you describe is what an ideal internet would be. Thanks. I'm kind of a normie myself; I know what's going on when I visit a site. I also get mad whenever I receive a notification that a certain number of trackers were blocked, that this many ads were blocked, and that trackers from apps I have installed on my smartphone were also blocked. The amount of trackers blocked by my NextDNS this month is just enough to ruin your day.
What I do now is try to be as least present on the internet as possible, using a VPN and Tor. I recently deleted all my social media accounts and stock apps and now use only FOSS. It's so much better now, but it's not even solution 15% of what's really going on. I never thought this would ever stop; all the laws and claims have fallen short. I've accepted that once you enter the web, you ultimately surrender to all the bad things going on. You have some control, but not fully. I have no idea how much of my data is out there, as I've recently gotten into all this. I was dumb enough to trust Google, Meta, and Microsoft and others just like them.
I've left behind the attitude of "What do I have to hide?" Instead, I now think, "I don't have anything to show you either."
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27 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 1 Mar
It's basically an ad for a fingerprint privacy tool. There's not much of a story sadly. I should've just shared the tool.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Catcher 1 Mar
You still can share it)
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