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Privacy advocate. No longer using or monitoring this account from May 1, 2023. Email me instead.
Reminder.
Larson's Law: "All data will be used for purposes other than that for which it was collected."
The Naked Consumer - Erik Larson
After receiving a sudden surge of junk mail directed at new parents—even though my wife at the time was merely pregnant—I set out to explore the lengths companies go to spy on individual consumers. It was fascinating, and a little scary. For example, I discovered one market-research firm that put human spies in stores to follow every move a shopper made, and another company that secretly commandeered viewers' televisions to show them commercials no one else got to see. The book became the subject of a PBS documentary, "We Know Where You Live," in which yours truly was the main character. I even got to slink around in a trench coat and lurk behind trees.
Oh my, Reddit seems to be blocking Tor with a 503 error. From EU and US.
Nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along...
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2021/02/23/total-cookie-protection/
Not to mention the obvious that such "popular third party login providers" means Google and Facebook!
Those are among the most common tracking devices around.
And Firefox allows those because it someone magically knows I "intend" to use them???
More #privacy compromises from Firefox ...
Number of clicks it takes in Firefox to clear out your browsing data:
1) Hamburger menu
2) Preferences
3) Privacy & Security
4) Scroll down exactly the right amount
5) Clear data
(Pick your two options)
6) Clear
Man, my finger is really tired now.
In addition to showing ads for its products in your email interface, Protonmail seems to be in bed with Cloudflare too: Protonmail status uses it.
My, my.
Looks like the updated Zoom Mac application now has integrated Google and Facebook tracking!
If privacy were important to Firefox, why does it take five steps to manage cookies and local storage?
1. Hamburger menu
2. Preferences
3. Privacy & Security
4. Scroll down a half page
5. Manage data
This should be one click right in an icon on the toolbar, just like the Forget icon.
Reminder.
The only private data is that which is never collected.
Collected data is never private, only more or less protected.
Collected data is never anonymous, only more or less identifiable.
All data will be used for purposes other than that for which it was originally collected.