Check "Prism break" website.
Man - humans have short memory.
Alternatives to Google Products
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#432Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your resolution alone will not likely uniquely identify you. The idea is to eliminate many of the data points that make it easy to track you across IPs. Resolution is very common if you're browsing with a maximized window so it's not in the same league as these others that quickly diverge amongst users.
No, not alone. But if you're not masking your IP address, it probably will. Weirdly, I tried to measure how unique my window.innerWidth/Height was, but panopticlick no longer seems to measure this. It only uses my full screen resolution, which of course is much less unique than canvas dimensions.
> No, not alone. But if you're not masking your IP address, it probably will.
If you're not masking your IP, resolution and anything else is largely irrelevant for tracking you.
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#433Hi all, I'm an engineer working on Firefox Platform (Gecko). In the linked blog post, the author recommends Firefox (thanks!) and links to a "privacy recommendations" for it, which include items such as "resistFingerprinting" settings. I'd like to remind everyone that turning on this setting has far fetched consequences to how you experience the Web. Your dates, timezones, preferred languages will all be masked which…
After the constant succession of revelations of the sorry state of privacy, along with myriad data breaches, all I want a browser to do is lie and obfuscate. So I'll gladly take the sledgehammer boolean of resistFingerprinting for now. I've yet to come across an extension that does something like this so I'm presuming it's not possible via extensions? Are Mozilla working to make this more granular and let me whitelis…
For FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-agent-...
I think this one is no longer working with the newest FF versions, but check back in on it every once in a while.
For Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/random-user-agent/...
Not as configurable as I'd like, but it gets 25% of the job done.
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#434Throwing Graphite into the mix too. Decentralized Docs, Sheets, Messaging, and File Storage. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16490595
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
Read a cyberpunk book. The mega-corp as focal point for resources, innovation and political clout is a scary thought. Consider the almost exclusive dataset they have moated "everyone" else out of, and the long line of disingenuous/unethical business practices. The privacy considerations are the proverbial top of the iceberg.
Do you have any book recommendations?
Dune's CHOAM corporation is a great example. Ownership in choam is synonyms with power and wealth. All political maneuvering is based on gaining or keeping control in choam corporation.
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#436Decentralized Google Docs alternative: https://www.graphitedocs.com/
Thanks for posting. Graphite has an alternative to Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Drive, and Google Hangouts. I hope you'll check it out!
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#437After convincing myself to do this kind of a switch, I noticed the experience using open protocols (IMAP, CardDAV and CalDAV) on Android isn't perfect. First of all, I had to buy a 3rd party app that does CardDAV and CalDAV syncing, because unlike iOS, Android doesn't support it natively. Secondly, IMAP doesn't come close to what I was used to with Gmail. And I'm not talking about the lack of good global search, I me…
K9 mail with IMAP and DAVdroid for CalDAV (both from Fdroid) work OK for me on Google-free LineageOS.
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#438I think we should all be looking a little harder at Sandstorm.io, and trying to get more Alternatives to Google Products running well on it.
It's hard to explain well, but roughly it lets lay people run cloud software on their own hardware (or in the cloud) with minimal fuss.
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
I second those asking what limitations you ran into (specifically with FastMail, since I have more chance of being able to fix those than the limitations with Protonmail - though I'd love to know both!) If it's "costs money", we're not planning to change that! We (FastMail) are proudly a paid-only service.
The biggest thing I've been missing since I started using FastMail is labels. My workflow in GMail used labels pretty heavily, and I've been able to get pretty close using saved searches and folders, but it's not quite the same.
Right, hopefully when JMAP arrives (soon!) you'll be able to use that nicely. It will give label-style handling by allowing the same message to exist in multiple folders.
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
Those can uniquely identify me So does your resolution. And that's hard to mask because JS usually needs to know it. If you're not using the browser fullscreen, chances are that you're using a unique innerWidth+innerHeight. As unsatisfying as it is, the current best solution seems to be not to care about privacy most of the time, and then take privacy seriously when you do. Whonix is excellent for this.
Don't huge swaths of people have the same resolution, though? Yes, I understand other things come into play here (OS, Browser, available plugins, etc) but I am skeptical that people are really building UUIDs based on someone's screen resolution. Or, if they are, that such IDs are meaningfully accurate.
It's all about the bits. You need 33 bits to identify 8 billion people. All that is required is for these bits to be independently uniformly distributed.
Say everybody uses one of four resolutions equally. That's two bits: 00, 01, 10 and 11. Now let's say that people's gender is also binary, distributed 50/50 and independent from what resolution someone uses. You can just tack that bit onto the two you already got and now you have three (the ability to distinguish between 2^3 = 8 individuals).
I won't go into the details, but if you have an estimate for the probability distribution of browser resolutions, it's fairly easy to extract the proper amount of bits of entropy. Being independent is a bit harder to make sure of, but as long as you pick things which aren't too obviously correlated, you can just take a safety margin and use, say, 40 bits to identify people, and it's probably fine (and for tracking purposes, a false positive isn't the end of the world, either).
That said, while I support the concept and idea behind panopticlick, I've always felt it overestimated the unicity of my browser. Or maybe I just really underestimate it myself. I don't know.