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And just this morning I received a text from AT&T that said, in part, "Your privacy comes first, as always." I wonder if they are getting their definition of privacy from the same place they get their definition of unlimited?
This is incredibly disturbing, they need not inject a unique ID like Verizon’s, they can now do it all on the backend.
Honestly, at this point I'm just waiting for the internet to implode so we can start something better. No more signing 'petitions' for me, which go straight to whatever senator's trash.
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Extra props for including "old." there.
Why the dislike of the new interface?
Design wise I’d prefer it focus on community > consumption. Card interfaces with expanded media are very consumption oriented.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Part of me is terrified that someone who has all my details just bought a firm that can trad on them. (It’s economic magic though - as if the Federal Reserve bought a hedge fund) But part of me says that when one dinosaur buys another, the end result is rarely Excellence. I suspect that this will wind up a disaster and write-off.
Been blocking ads for years pretty thoroughly. Its a trillion $ industry that might as well not exist really. My advice: buy an unlocked Android phone. Throw DNS66 on it to block in app ads. Use browsers that support ublock origin, I advise Fennec which is Firefox for Android stripped of the Mozilla crap. You are not a powerless victim, you have agency.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Part of me is terrified that someone who has all my details just bought a firm that can trad on them. (It’s economic magic though - as if the Federal Reserve bought a hedge fund) But part of me says that when one dinosaur buys another, the end result is rarely Excellence. I suspect that this will wind up a disaster and write-off.
Well, since ISPs are now free to sell / monetize consumer traffic data [0], this makes some sense. They are pretty desperate for ways to be something more than a dumb pipe for other's content. [0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/sjres34/summary
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Have you used your login for any other TV service? The OTT industry has settled on a pretty broad single sign-on ecosystem. If you've logged into any OTT service with your crendentials, you likely don't need to do it again for any other service. https://www.fiercecable.com/cable/tv-everywhere-starts-up-46...
No. I've got Firefox configured to nuke almost everything on restart, plus I run PrivacyBadger and uBlock Origin. This is not me overlooking an existing login. (I also run a site-specific browsers via Chrome to isolate my Gmail login and keep Google from knowing who I am, I have no Facebook login, etc. I'm not serious enough to run a VPN or Tor, and my setup isn't enough to guard against browser fingerprinting, but I…
Personally it's handy as my ISP lets me watch tv on any device on my home network. They did it badly because it breaks if I change the SSID.
But you're not truly paranoid unless you're using tor or a vpn to get away from your ISP's network. Your efforts mostly are an annoyance to yourself but no impediment to other.
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Make your own with a box in AWS or any other cloud provider running something like Strongswan on Linux or iked on OpenBSD. All the out of the box VPNs I've found have some shortcomings, either being horribly insecure (PPTP, seriously?), overpriced, often abused (which means their entire subnet is banned by pretty much everything) and the providers sometimes seem shady (I want a VPN to escape cancer aka ads, not the g…
I've found that a lot of typical residential traffic (Netflix) is blocked when routing through datacenters. I'd love to hear your experience.
Popular cloud hosts with a freemium option are a bad idea for personal vpn.