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As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this
by Aromasin 7y ago
As an engineer, I'm amazed. As a person who doesn't want the person on the other end of every website I visit to know who exactly I am, I feel violated. At this point though, all I feel I can do as a hapless consumer is to desensitize myself to said violation.
I use a VPN, Pi-Hole, Ghostery and Firefox. All of these a relatively recent additions though, so if a website can get my email and that links to an already existing database of all my collected data up to that point, I'm buggered anyway.
- pure-awesome 7y agoJust making sure you're aware of the discussion around Ghostery that's happened here on HackerNews, so you can make an informed decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15969525 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16809625 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652126 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9617827
- Aromasin 7y agoF-ing wonderful. Almost reaffirming the inevitability of it all really. Back to uBlock it is. Thanks for the heads up.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoNot ublock, you need to use ublock origin.
- kazagistar 7y agoHow about AdNausium for the extra middle finger.