m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@lanodan @ins0mniak @p Yeah, but don't forget about countries like China, Russia, etc.
You can't sue shit there and some guy in Zurich spying on you is still more trustworthy than ISP having direct connection to the KGB 😆

@lanodan @ins0mniak @p No one's using VPN to avoid browser fingerprinting I think. It still prevents your ISP from spying on you, helps circumvent georestrictions, countrywide IP blocks, etc.

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I don't think it's that easy. True, they use whatever OS came with their device, but most take the OS into account when choosing what device to get. I can't imagine a person who wanted an iPhone, but then went to the store and got an Android device. If they decide to switch, they do it before going to the store. So if most laptops come with Linux they just might look for the ones that ship with Windows.

@daksh The most vile thing I did while being employed by a certain tech company (far from Facebook or Google on the scale of being evil) — we've read crash reports and laughed at the names our customers' computers had. Some were hilarious.
I've never sent a single crash report ever since 😅

@lanodan @p
>Are you from the previous millenium?
Damn! My cover has been blown! 🤣

@p @lanodan
>The trick is knowing in advance where anyone on your network might want to connect
Yes. Especially with every damn website going to "the cloud" and using DNS-based load balancing — hardly feasible.
Thanks for the tip though!

@lanodan @p Isn't hosting e-mail a similar shitshow nowadays? I mean configuring sendmail is pain, but at least I did it sometime ago. But all this DKIM-stuff is a fsckery of its own.

@lanodan @p Happened to me too! My cell provider blocked me for a couple of days for refusing to find all the bicycles or something like that 😆

@lanodan @p Self-hosting is great, but takes a lot of time to maintain. I have my own nitter instance, but I'm too lazy to host something like matrix server.

@lanodan @p Yep, sadly, this breaks a lot of things.
What also irks me is that a lot of websites including websites of companies that should be about privacy, like VPN providers, use reCAPTCHA. This is just wrong in every possible way 🤬

@p @lanodan Of course! I have media larger than 8Kb, third party fonts and scripts blocked by default in UBO and only enable them when I absolutely must.
Ideally, you should have IP routes set only to the servers you want to connect to and not have the default route. But maybe that's a bit overkill 😅

@lanodan @p Exactly! For each thing I have to use and I don't trust.
Well, I do a lot more than that. I have Forget Me Not to clean up cookies and persistent data on leaving the domain. I only keep cookies for a few things I need actually.
And I don't have and never had Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp accounts in the first place. So I think I'm fine 😄

@lanodan @p No, of course they don't isolate each tab, that would be trouble. You can assign which container the tab uses manually. This way if you log in to Facebook in the Facebook container, cookies and persistent data can't get outside. It's like using a different profile, but all within one browser instance. That is why it should be immune only if used properly. If all your tabs use the default container — it's not.

@roboduck Having furniture sucks. But cyclists are even worse 😢

@Stellar @rin Just like ATMs!

@lanodan @p Firefox has this "containers" that keep cookies and persistent data isolated. Should be immune too if used properly.

@p @mint Browser on my laptop is configured to use something like localhost:3128 as a proxy, and that port is redirected with ssh to the actual squid proxy running on a different machine. When I take it outside the redirect still works, along with ajax.googleapis.com mirror I have at home. All the web traffic is encrypted too this way, no VPN required ☺

@safiuddinkhan@fosstodon.org I like how they've made having an account mandatory for browsing Instagram. Did they really think it'll make me register? Now if someone sends me a link to Insta I don't even waste a click on trying to open it 🤣

@a1ba Here is the cat I was talking about. Not that smol now, huh?
Cute little fella from the opening post will grow big too! And defeat all humans. With his cuteness 😹

@iska@mstdn.starnix.network To touch withered and dried grass?