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Not mentioned: Removing your information from all social media / messengers : https://redact.dev (disclaimer, im on the team) Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery
How ironic. In order to remove my data from the internet, I first need to give my data to that random website.
Is anyone familiar with what privacy badger does over uBlock origin? Unless my information is out of date, the more extensions you have installed the more unique your fingerprint is?
I think the biggest concern is to only install extensions from developers and organizations you trust.
As for your browser fingerprint, on the one hand, the more custom your browser setup, the more you stand out. On the other hand, Privacy Badger exists to reduce pervasive, non-consensual tracking. We especially aim to block pervasive fingerprinters, along with other obnoxious types of trackers.
More about Privacy Badger below, adapted from https://privacybadger.org/#Is-Privacy-Badger-compatible-with...
While there is a lot of overlap between the various manually-edited advertising/tracker lists and Privacy Badger, unlike list-based tools, Privacy Badger automatically learns to block trackers based on their behavior. This means that Privacy Badger may learn to block trackers your list-based tool doesn’t know about.
Besides automatic learning, Privacy Badger comes with other advantages like cookie blocking, click-to-activate placeholders for potentially useful tracker widgets (video players, comments widgets, etc.), and outgoing link click tracking removal on Facebook and Google (recently updated, see https://www.eff.org/badger-link-tracking-protection-update).
Privacy Badger is also a political tool. Privacy Badger sends the Global Privacy Control signal to opt you out of data sharing and selling, and the Do Not Track signal to tell companies not to track you. If trackers ignore your wishes, Privacy Badger will learn to block them. By using Privacy Badger, you support the Electronic Frontier Foundation and help fight for a better Web for everybody.
The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in this ecosystem. If you want to participate in the modern economy, than you need to assume there is never any isolation. Even creeps with phones will show up taking photos on private property, as some app paid them $5 to risk their lives trespassing. Mozilla Fire…
Yep. Almost every CMP and privacy statement accidentally confirms that:
"We value your privacy!"
Yeah you value my privacy. You want to own it.
Not mentioned: Removing your information from all social media / messengers : https://redact.dev (disclaimer, im on the team) Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery
Actually, Optery is a YC 2022 company and there are some good discussions on Optery and its competitors here on HN, ex: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30605010
For those evaluating data removal services, a solid first step is to sign up for each company’s free scan and compare the results.
Full disclosure: I am on the Optery team
The harsh reality is privacy became a commodity, and due to overabundance it is relatively cheap. Even apparent competitors sell each other marketing data in this ecosystem. If you want to participate in the modern economy, than you need to assume there is never any isolation. Even creeps with phones will show up taking photos on private property, as some app paid them $5 to risk their lives trespassing. Mozilla Fire…
> This is the modern web, and arguably it was a mistake Agreed. Although I say it differently: the web is dead. It has been thoroughly transformed into a hostile place optimized for commerce and surveillance. As such, it is no longer really capable of doing the things that used to make it great.
I find this profoundly tragic. But also affirming that a respected source of wisdom aligns with my own "truth". So, maybe it's not too hyperbolic to say the "Web is dead" if it is dead to it's own creator.
Some of whatever it was lives on, in ideas and values of a minority. We cannot wind it back, or rebuild it on the sewer it now is. For the rest, who know no better, it is a horrible, horrible place.
What we might usefully teach children are the many other ways to use computers and the internet, as local oracles, as peer to peer technologies, through networks on other protocols.
Recommended Jitsu requires only Chrome or Chromium. Yet, same article strongly discourages Chrome. And Apple iOS does not have Chromium either. :-/
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/user-guide/supported-b...
Not mentioned: Removing your information from all social media / messengers : https://redact.dev (disclaimer, im on the team) Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery
Not mentioned: Removing your information from all social media / messengers : https://redact.dev (disclaimer, im on the team) Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery
> Removing your information from all databrokers https://easyoptouts.com / incogni / deleteme / optery How ironic. In order to remove my data from the internet, I first need to give my data to that random website.
> Use fake profiles / identities.
All the journos, mods, and celebs lobbying against, complaining about, and trying to eradicate anonymity/pseudonymity online are acting against your interests. I would even like to see more social norms against "namefagging."
Real names are for the most banal online activities (mostly buying stuff), for everything else there are aliases with varying levels of technical obscurity (alternative/temp email → VPN → Tor). Give them nothing, pay Mullvad the €5 privacy tax.