To be fair, the Internet was initially a military technology.
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TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You literally can’t use the internet without accepting to be tracked. Dystopian.
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 11 months ago
Reject all cookies button:
snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Lots of ways to track besides cookies. There are many ways you can fingerprint a user. It’s actually pretty hard to not have a unique fingerprint on the Internet.
AceSLS@ani.social 11 months ago
uBlock Origin and JShelter disagree.
Additionally one could improve that further by using a VPN
If you wanna be extreme you could also just use the Tor Browser
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Except sites deliberately break themselves if they can’t harvest your data. You can’t even browse reddit on Tor anymore.
Even merely using Fennec on my phone, I encounter shopping sites where I actually plan to spend money refuse to work because they can’t recognize “my device.” Or they refuse to sell me products where I live if I’m using a VPN. Creepy-ass behavior.
I suppose the only way out is through, and we should simply refuse to use sites that are designed in such a way, but it feels like a losing battle.
milkytoast@kbin.social 11 months ago
lol advance auto parts (one of the three major auto parts stores in the us) won't let u use their site with a VPN. so I just use the other two lol. like I can understand a government website blocking VPN traffic. but auto parts store?
LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 11 months ago
What do you consider the other two big ones? Auto Zone and NAPA?
Just curious because there are so many auto parts stores where I live
explodicle@local106.com 11 months ago
We’re doing our part! The fediverse needs good posts like yours to draw in new users.
anonymoose@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Trying out Librewolf, I realized just how many sites (including Reddit!) use tricks like canvas fingerprinting to identify me up to 99% uniqueness. And here I thought just a VPN, uBO and no cookies would be enough!
AceSLS@ani.social 11 months ago
There’s so many more tricks to identify you, check out browserleaks.com
It’s honestly scary how easy it is to fingerprint you
anonymoose@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah, 💯. Of course, if we resist fingerprinting too much, we make ourselves have a unique fingerprint again 😁 I assume some of the tools you’ve mentioned randomize the fingerprint instead of just hiding it?
Haha, no worries!