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by surround 6y ago
Try disabling JavaScript. uBlock origin lets you do this on a per-site basis.
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by surround 6y ago
I’m afraid their fingerprint randomizing methods may be doing more harm then good. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#smal...
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by surround 6y ago
Unfortunately, adnaseam does not improve privacy since it has to load the ad scripts.
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by surround 6y ago
I never understood what that name meant.
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by surround 6y ago
Randomizing fingerprints is generally a bad idea. See: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#smal...
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by surround 6y ago
The Tor browser is really effective at preventing fingerprinting.
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by surround 6y ago
I like the uBlock Origin philosophy: > DNT is essentially acknowledging that a 3rd-party is the one in control of your privacy in the 1st place, and you have to resort to asking this 3rd-party -- which has financial (or whatever) interes
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by surround 6y ago
> “Add-ons and browsers that randomize the results of fingerprinting metrics have the potential to confuse trackers and mitigate the effects of fingerprinting as a method of tracking.” I would like to dispute this. It is easy to detect w
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by surround 6y ago
Firefox by default tries to connect to http://detectportal.firefox.com/success.txt in order to detect captive portals.
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by surround 6y ago
The comic calculates entropy with the assumption that the attacker knows that your password is four common words. Even if they run a dictionary attack on your password, it will still be secure. Diceware passwords are still recommended by s
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by surround 6y ago
I though you were referring to American users. Accusing American companies is ok.
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by surround 6y ago
Since we’re on the topic of civil conversation, I’m going to be a bit picky: “American” is a generalization. Accusing them is not productive to discussion.
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by surround 6y ago
Some self hosting options: Gitea: https://gitea.io/ sourcehut: https://sourcehut.org/ Gogs: https://gogs.io/ Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/
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by surround 6y ago
But surveillance can hurt productivity, too. YouTube, for example, is really good at predicting which videos I will find interesting, and I end up wasting a lot of time. When I started using Invidious, which doesn’t track your watch histo
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by surround 6y ago
YouTuber Shawn Woods posts weekly videos on mousetraps. He has done much to educate people on humane ways to trap and kill pests, and condemns the use of traps which prolong suffering, such as sticky traps. He has had years of struggles wit
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by surround 6y ago
A note on those sticky traps - don’t use them. It’s as inhumane to trap a rat/mouse in them as it is to trap a kitty. If you have a mouse problem, stick to spring traps which kill them instantly, without prolonged suffering.
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by surround 6y ago
Ideally, websites should load zero third-party resources. Every third-party resource is another third-party that can track users. This includes avoiding CDNs.
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by surround 6y ago
Why is GitHub not open source?
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by surround 6y ago
That seems to be an issue with most webcams - the indicator light itself can be compromised and disabled.
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Self Referential Formula in Math (2011)(jtra.cz)
33 points by surround 6y ago|4 comments
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by surround 6y ago
What I mean is, has nobody named their child after an SQL injection payload?
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by surround 6y ago
There’s a video on YouTube with three full-width explanation points as the title. I watched it once, and although it wasn’t particularly interesting, it bugs me that I cannot find it again.
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by surround 6y ago
It’s been 13 years since the Bobby Tables comic was drawn, has nobody actually tried it yet?
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by surround 6y ago
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by surround 6y ago
I recommend running your own DNS resolver, so that you don’t have to trust any 3rd party server with your DNS traffic. I run Unbound (a DNS resolver) alongside Pi-hole on a dedicated raspberry pi for my home network.
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by surround 6y ago
You need to require HTTPS for all requests on your website, and redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS in order to protect users’ personal information and passwords.
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by surround 6y ago
Also: if you add your phone number to Snapchat, you cannot remove it.
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by surround 6y ago
I had 129.0 as well.
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by surround 6y ago
I’ve discovered it’s really good at identifying classical piano music as you play it live
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by surround 6y ago
> This feature is currently available in English on iOS, and in more than 20 languages on Android. And we hope to expand this to more languages in the future. What? Humming is not different across dialects.

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