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throwitaway156

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    Comment #37543165

    You can increase the number of hops to make it very difficult. Guard nodes are pinned, so they might know who uses and who doesnt use Tor (doesnt matter if you arent using a bridge…

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    Comment #37512245

    Being blunt: your setup doesnt protect you from Apple. Websites will and does recognize you on every visit, both those done in private tabs and the usual ones. DDG and ProtonMail i…

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    Comment #37459444

    If they had given you a seat that gives you power, money and influence, and you had the knowledge to expand it both for yourself and them, what would you do? Nothing? Well that sea…

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    Comment #37447153

    https://nitter.unixfox.eu/coinfabrik/status/1700495960151912...

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    Comment #37432014

    This API wont remove or deprecate the already existing tracking methods, third party cookies can be disabled but alternative practices have been developed a good while ago (and new…

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    Comment #37431900

    Rule #1 about 0-days: If you learned about it and nobody is dead or arrested, its not a 0-day.

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    Comment #37424577

    > to have a peaceful life profit over and over again.

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    Comment #37411802

    Ignoring STUN/TURN, WebRTC should be able to do this. there are things like webtorrent.io All we need is demand. Demand for non-walled garden content. Demand for less monthly subsc…

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    Comment #37407286

    i dont get this, i can find almost anything i want with DDG, Yandex or a metasearch engine. I havent used Google for a few years now and i never have issues with it. Could you prov…

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    Comment #37407208

    https://nitter.unixfox.eu/yacineMTB/status/16994367765850648...

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    Comment #37401693

    it doesnt matter if you enabled it or not, you need to allow Clownflare's guerrilla fingerprinting to be allowed access. Which is a huge downside, unless you have access to a bunch…

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    Comment #37398172

    Similarly to DNS, its always regex.

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    Comment #37375185

    > The Amazon Kindle-Swindle has a back door that has been used to remotely erase books. One of the books erased was 1984, by George Orwell.

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    Comment #37374815

    > How the lovers died and ended up in the bin is still under speculation but both skeletons lack evidence of injury near the time of death and possibly died of asphyxiation

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    Comment #37359426

    Damn, i knew that Apple did marketing well but not this well. Great success, apple marketing team.

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    Comment #37357264

    Disagree. Law enforcement shouldnt be able to interact with infected computers at all if they dont have the explicit order.

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    Comment #37357247

    > geo ip lookups is impossible impossible is the wrong word here, its just unnecessary. The Feds can (and do) definitely contact domestic & international ISPs to perform near 100% …

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    Comment #37301447

    [flagged]

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    Comment #37301369

    This is how the free market works, however. You can sell yourself a pencil for 1mil and it will be technically valued at 1mil in the public market, but good luck selling that to so…

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    Comment #37281307

    Mozilla's FTP was a lifesaver when i was configuring/updating old, barely functioning Windows desktops. Glad to see them keeping it alive.

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    Comment #37281242

    I think this is because of FB/Meta. I would assume that they dont have massive financial restrictions from investors due to their data harvesting capability. Other apps like Telegr…

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    Comment #37281198

    While i agree that TLS will probably be used more restrictively over the years, corporate use should hold back a self-signed CA crackdown.

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    Comment #37281111

    That can put archive.is out of business.

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    Comment #37281101

    scribe.rip also works for medium. Or you can host your own instance.

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    Comment #37277036

    its been a while since i visited their site, but it reminded me of those personal websites and geocities. I still dont know why they seem to be aiming for such a target auidence wh…