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You have a choice. You can severely limit or halt tracking and “data-pinching” altogether. Here’s a good starting point: https://www.privacytools.io/ https://ww

You have a choice. You can severely limit or halt tracking and “data-pinching” altogether. Here’s a good starting point: https://www.privacytools.io/ https://www.privacytools.io/ Don’t give in unless you choose to.

hilbert42 8y ago
I agree with you. If you were to look at some of my other posts on privacy then you'd see that compared to many other internet users I actually go to inordinate lengths to keep Big Tech at bay. For instance, not using JavaScript during browsing is my default mode (and that's only part of my protection system); such action however is considered extreme to the point of being obsessional by some HN readers. However, one can grind things too fine and all one ends up by doing is spending almost full time looking for security breaches in one's fortified ramparts and tunnels under browser 'moats'. It's where one draws the line that matters, the timid keep safe distances, hide behind others or pretend not to know and hope such problems will never affect them. I can definitely say I'm not one of those, in fact I reckon I push my security boundaries pretty hard and demand a lot from them. It seems to me if you want to achieve something that's close to the bleeding edge then you have to be prepared to suffer inconvenience and or bleed a little. For instance, risk-takers push the law up to its edge so as to get something daring or audacious done that few others risk trying, they tread the line separating the legal from illegal whilst simultaneously leaning over precariously into illegality and hoping they don't fall. At the very edges—which really isn't very often—I run my internet browsing a little like that, but in my post I was referring to the vast numbers of internet users who always take safer routes or play by the default rules. ...And it's also what I do most of the time.

hilbert42 8y ago

I agree with you. If you were to look at some of my other posts on privacy then you'd see that compared to many other internet users I actually go to inordinate lengths to keep Big Tech at bay. For instance, not using JavaScript during browsing is my default mode (and that's only part of my protection system); such action however is considered extreme to the point of being obsessional by some HN readers. However, one can grind things too fine and all one ends up by doing is spending almost full time looking for security breaches in one's fortified ramparts and tunnels under browser 'moats'. It's where one draws the line that matters, the timid keep safe distances, hide behind others or pretend not to know and hope such problems will never affect them. I can definitely say I'm not one of those, in fact I reckon I push my security boundaries pretty hard and demand a lot from them. It seems to me if you want to achieve something that's close to the bleeding edge then you have to be prepared to suffer inconvenience and or bleed a little. For instance, risk-takers push the law up to its edge so as to get something daring or audacious done that few others risk trying, they tread the line separating the legal from illegal whilst simultaneously leaning over precariously into illegality and hoping they don't fall. At the very edges—which really isn't very often—I run my internet browsing a little like that, but in my post I was referring to the vast numbers of internet users who always take safer routes or play by the default rules. ...And it's also what I do most of the time.