Fennec worries me a little because the project failed to deliver crucial security updates for several weeks, which ironically caused people to hop to Mull.
https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild/-/issues/86
Browsers are really in a state right now.
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20·12 days agoThank goodness data collection companies would never sell or share data with each other
Tell me, how many nannies shake their babies? You know, a good hard shake, like, like tryin’ to get ketchup out of a bottle. One percent? Less?
Funny, that. They sell a billion dollars worth of that shit worldwide. Goes to show you, doesn’t it? The bollocks people will believe if you get them scared enough.
Is this stock Android? I don’t have this option on mine, as far as I can tell. The closest I have is “Allow background data usage”
That’s a good work around for a fundamental issue with the app, but how reliable is it? I wish there was a blanket method to disable internet connectivity for an app, rather than relying on a firewall (IIRC they’re pretty leaky, and I struggle to maintain anything that’s always-on) or custom DNS server.
After reading the article and the spec, it looks like GPC is another header (like DNT) and a JavaScript variable the client would set. I don’t see why this couldn’t be used for tracking too.
For HTTP:
A user agent MUST generate a Sec-GPC header… if… gpcAtNavigation is true.
For JavaScript:
The globalPrivacyControl property is available on the navigator object
GPC also looks like a watered down version of DNT. DNT was “do not track,” and GPC is "do not sell:
GPC is also not intended to limit a first party’s use of personal information within the first-party context (such as a publisher targeting ads to a user on its website based on that user’s previous activity on that same site).
Emphasis mine
When a big company blocks use of their app if you use something from a smaller company, users will choose the big company over the small company. Just ask WeChat about how they kill competitors.
I thought it was open source.
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
This doesn’t prevent them from running different software or logging requests, but we have unsealed court orders, which is better than most other services that could receive them.
If this platform isn’t about freedom of (more) speech, what freedom is it about?
I can’t think of a single reason anybody’s ever given to use Lemmy besides referencing either privacy from something, or increased freedom over other platforms.
If Lemmy isn’t made with (improved) privacy or free speech in mind, what’s it made for? What incentive do people have to switch to it?
Wow. Just over two years ago, this was only a security issue. Now Google is actively exploiting it to make it a privacy issue too. (Okay, Google could have been quietly exploiting it this whole time.)
TikTok’s In-App Browser Includes Code That Can Monitor Your Keystrokes, Researcher Says
There are a few good points in that response and a few I don’t. They also concede a couple points, and complain about somebody who reposted that article (but not the original author I linked, thankfully).
To address your question: For example, sure, maybe Google does cache data but…
- It’s probably better to have data in two places deleted from one place (Lemmy) instead of neither place
- Google allows you to specifically request removal of caches anyway
- Canonizing deletion of data probably has legal and tech benefits. (I’m not a lawyer, but deletion after a reasonable retention rate probably will help server administrators more than it hurts them, and it certainly helps the users.)
That’s actually very boilerplate and tame compared to what Lemmy actually does with your data…
I like this post and the style of writing, but there’s no way on earth this is “easy” to the average, non-technically-minded person. Never mind trying to convince the average Boomer or Gen X-er to follow these steps, it might exhaust a lot of privacy advocates or other people in technical fields. Heck, I’ve seen technically proficient people complain about the complexities of getting Matrix/Element encryption to work, and by comparison, that’s practically a walk in the park.
(I was originally going to make a slightly more conciliatory comment, but then I realized you were not the OP of the original content. I appreciate the transfer of knowledge to the clearer web.)
The fact that the United States intentionally makes these zones really subverts the conspiracy theory that the government is using 5G to control our minds (or whatever the theorists say these days).
I got a similar ban from that community after the moderator started spouting conspiracy theories at me and I didn’t agree with them. I noticed they removed most of my comments in that thread, but not all of them… Not sure if it was accidental, but the ones with non-negative karma were the ones that got removed.
This is also how I discovered a moderator that bans you from their community effectively prevents you from deleting any of your posts in it, which makes me feel… Uncertain about the ML mods having such control over the stuff its users post.
I thought some worked by flashing infrared LEDs to overwhelm the cameras’ sensors. AFAIK there are multiple varieties of camera repellant.
Ever seen this movie scene about a guy who got his name in the phone book?
I love it when surprise features get silently added, then discovered a couple months later. Makes you wonder exactly how easy it would be for Apple to start scanning for tons of other stuff in addition to landmarks, now that they’ve built out the infrastructure for it.
It’s really kind of them, too. Collecting data for all of your photos for free, holding a database of public places for free, scanning your photos against them for free, returning that day to you for free… They’re so generous!