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Why do they care?
You can get a very cheap online-only subscription if you have Amazon Prime, strong recommend.
Also, from a German IPv4:
> The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website:
> We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps and newsletters and across the Internet based on your interests. By clicking “I agree” below, you consent to the use by us and our third-party partners of cookies and data gathered from your use of our platforms. See our Privacy Policy and Third Party Partners to learn more about the use of data and your rights. You also agree to our Terms of Service.
But "Continue to site" doesn't work unless I check "I agree". So they're clearly not GDPR-compliant. In order to access their site, you must agree to be tracked. And you must also disable protection against tracking.
Maybe there will be complaints filed?
Any time a site asks me to disable tracking protection, it has the curious effect of reinforcing my desire to leave it enabled - that site has made it clear that they are intentionally and unapologetically violating my privacy for a quick buck.
Win-win!
Good, the word "tracking" is a lot scarier than "ad", should make most users think a bit harder about the choice. However, it's highly irresponsible for them to tell users to do it, as it's a switch, not a whitelist (which is good since that would eventually defeat the entire purpose). I think the best you get is disable for a session.
You should also disable QUIC in chrome Anything related to webassembly (like you know what it's doing...huge security risk there)
any video card accelerator interface middleware (information ratline)
you should turn all urls back to mozilla or google in the advanced settings (about:config and chrome:flags) back to 127.0.0.1 to disable them
get an extension to block canvas information siphoning (fingerprinting)
disable webRTC via extension or advanced settings
disable "native client" in chrome (allows google to watch what your'e doing)
disable any vnc
disable any "help" or "spellchecking in the cloud" or "predictive blah blah in the cloud" or
pipeline seems to be ok, security wise afaik
disable any "protect you from malicious sites" -- that's tracking everything you do
and use DNSSEC or DNS over TLS on your router, by for example flashing your router with dd-wrt or tomato or using an advanced firewall computer that can handle all this. It's kind of annoying to set up, but it will be worth it, if you care about your privacy
The worst thing you can do is set your dns to 8888 and 8844 that's basically giving all your internet activity to google, because of your convenience
Not only should you use privoxy with tight settings to block everything You should also disable QUIC in chrome Anything related to webassembly (like you know what it's doing...huge security risk there) any video card accelerator interface middleware (information ratline) you should turn all urls back to mozilla or google in the advanced settings (about:config and chrome:flags) back to 127.0.0.1 to disable them get an…
Sometimes you can lie by omission and democracy really DOES die in darkness
Ask WAPO who Imran Awan is, and why they didn't tell you for over 2.5 yrs now? Let's talk about the most viciously censored scandal in US history that is being blockaded by what has become a completely separate timeline for infocucks
Any time a site asks me to disable tracking protection, it has the curious effect of reinforcing my desire to leave it enabled - that site has made it clear that they are intentionally and unapologetically violating my privacy for a quick buck.