nixCraft 🐧9h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/116305873092655616

if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up.

governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line.

that is the only solution to all these stupid laws.

Show threadBrayd 🚩9h ago
@nixCraft true, but most people will never collectively do that.
Show threadDarwin Woodka7h ago

@brayd @nixCraft

80% of people are just basically sheep who will do whatever they're told. It's up to the 20% of us who are stubborn assholes to fix things for everyone else.

Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft

80%? Thats quite generous.

I'd say its more like 95% :D

Show threadDarwin Woodka7h ago

@ItsePerkele @brayd @nixCraft

You would think, but no. There's a lot more weirdos out there that you think! Most of us are just masking.

Show threadPerkele7h ago

@darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft

Sure, theres a lot of us. But how many? 2 million? 5 million? 10 million? That's nothing compared to the billions who don't give a shit :D

Maybe its just my pessimism blinding me, I dunno.

Out of curiosity I had a look at firefox add-on numbers. 10 million have installed ublock, less than 2 have installed privacy badger... I know those numbers don't really mean much but I see those as the minimum of what one should have. Those numbers should have a zero or two more

Show threadCrunchyrice6h ago
@ItsePerkele @darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft
I mean, include me into the list of people who don't use privacy badger. I primarily use a combo of strict u-block, no-script and temp containers.
But to be honest I never looked too far into how well privacy badger works in practice in comparison to blanket blocking scripts and cross site connections or if it's worth the overhead of managing another extension.
Sounds like something for me to look into later, thanks.
Show threadPerkele6h ago
@krunchyrice @darwinwoodka @brayd @nixCraft yeah I mean privacybadger is not the only way to go about it. I also just realised that I don't have the badger installed at the moment either lol. I changed browser to Librewolf recently, I guess I forgot some things. But, I think I'll do what you said, look into how useful privacybadger is, on top of everything else I have on.
Show threadDarwin Woodka

@ItsePerkele @krunchyrice @brayd @nixCraft

Loved the badger but it didn't work well with ublock so I don't use it these days.

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Show threadPerkele6h ago
@darwinwoodka @krunchyrice @brayd @nixCraft yeah I think I had to tinker with it a bit to get them play nice with each others. I may skip it for now. I'll have to look into how useful it really is if I add it to my current set up.