"How to be a free European citizen online?" 🗝️
Ever wondered how to be a free European citizen online? @rafa_font has got the answers! 🌐🔒
Thank you for the shout-out to Murena and /e/OS!
Join us in the movement for privacy and independence. #ChooseFreedom @murena @e_mydata
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen
Wil je ook online een vrij Europees 🇪🇺 burger zijn? Minder afhankelijk van #BigAdd (#BigTech)?
@rafa_font schreef dit artikel met tips waar je vrolijk van wordt!
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-free-european-citizen
@gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
Step one in being free, would have to be not using and depending on #CloudGlare, expressly Cloud(G)lare #subStack.
Is there a version of this article that is ethically served, whether over clearnet, #I2P or Tor?
@gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
Oh dear.
We just had a squiz at @protonmail's blog, over Tor of course, to see if he had posted it there.
https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7ozyd.onion/blog
Alas even ProtonMail's Tor onion site contains Cloud(G)lare trackers, in the form of images. As one scrolls down the page, #TorBrowser, with ***the highest safety settings***, fetches images from 'res.cloudinary.com' — another cloud(G)lare controlled entity.
Yikes.
Not a good look for a #privacy-espousing entity, right?
@dsfgs @gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
Not that we only use images from CDNs on the main static website, not the web apps, and that they are not trackers. If you using the Tor browser, it will use Tor exit nodes to fetch these, so there shouldn't be any privacy issues whatsoever.
@protonmail @gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
> CDNs on the main static website, not the web apps
Somewhat more tolerable, but it's CloudFlare, a company that believes they are "making the internet better" by monopolising it and making a mockery of end-to-end encryption. In #Australia, from at least 2021 they are known to block access to #bankAccounts as we blew the whistle on in Jan 2022. See also Jeff Cliff's study of Cloud(G)lare.
@protonmail @gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
Images or any traffic, especially of variable size, is able to be used as trackers. Over Tor these trackers become much more difficult to use but not impossible. Onionsites exist to avoid deanonymisation by large actors with deep pockets.
We sincerely hope a better solution can be found even for just the static site. Why should large actors be able to infer and learn the sorts of sites households are reading information on? They shouldn't.
@protonmail @gael @rafa_font @murena @e_mydata
Even if #anonymity is assured, which we believe a large actor could theoretically deanonymise, especially because '#lazyLoading' in the HTML enables more intermittent fetches, which can also enable Cloud(G)lare to assess one's reading speed… privacy is *not*.
CloudGlare gain access to the types of sites folks access.
Privacy is broken even if anonymity is assured.
Please rethink Cloud(G)lare* 🙂
* (incl. Amazon CloudFront, Akamai, Azure, Google)
Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena
Eelco Mulder 
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