Adobe native apps modify your `hosts` file to see from the Web if its software is installed: https://www.osnews.com/story/144737/adobe-secretly-modifies-your-hosts-file-for-the-stupidest-reason/.

LinkedIn scans for traces of installed browser extensions: https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/.

Regular people outside of our tech bubble here on Mastodon have no idea any of this is happening, or even technically feasible.

Support for the new profile design is almost ready for Mastodon Bird UI v4.0.0-alpha.6 (for Mastodon nightly 4.6.0-alpha.6).

Original core Mastodon on the left.
With Mastodon Bird UI on the right.

#BuildInPublic #MastodonBirdUI #BirdUI #MastoAdmin

Happy ninth Mastodon Won't Survive Day to all who celebrate!
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

#Fediverse #Mastodon

posted on the VCF site from someone in Russia

"Unfortunately, Russia is heading into very dark times.

We used to have good Internet here: fast, cheap, and mostly open. That is no longer the case. Real censorship has arrived in full force. YouTube, Discord, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and many other platforms have already been blocked.

And now it is getting worse. Full mobile Internet blackouts have started across the European part of the country. When this happens, the network is effectively switched into a whitelist mode: only pro-government sites and a couple of banks are accessible, while everything else simply disappears.

I have every reason to believe this is only the beginning, and that the same model will eventually be pushed onto wired home Internet as well.

I am in Siberia right now, where things are still somewhat better, and the whitelist system has not fully reached us yet. But that may not last."