Recent comments in /f/Privacy

Rambler OP wrote

The map/article is from 2018, so it's a bit dated. But it's safe to assume that if your state had it in 2018, that it likely still does. If anyone knows of a more recent or up-to-date map/resources, feel free to submit it.

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Wahaha wrote

Corona is like the flu. It will never go away. Vaccines didn't make the flu go away. What we want is the stupid reaction to go away.

The measures are all inconsequent bullshit anyway. All the lock downs are pointless, since everyone is allowed to go to the supermarket anyway and masks are proven to not be 100% effective.

If they closed down the supermarkets, too and forced delivery of everything this whole thing would have been over months ago. But the way things have played out were, of course, different.

There wasn't even an effort to put logistics in place that would make grocery delivery feasible for everyone.

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Rambler OP wrote

I think the concern was more around the fact that now an unknown and random 3rd party can determine who visits the site looking at the logs of how often their stylesheet was requested. I expect that the website owner would be able to view the logs of his own site, but not that a 3rd party (even if an admin) would be able to do the same to a degree.

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Wahaha wrote

Truthfully speaking, I wouldn't care that much. My default position towards websites is distrust. As long as the site in question has some value to me I'm compromising. It's an unfortunate state of affairs, but the web wasn't designed with either privacy nor with security, nor with anonymity in mind, so you don't get any of those. I don't expect this to change, either. Not on the clearnet, anyway. Most people don't even know how things work. They visit websites like they visit a doctor. Unequipped with the knowledge to even notice if something is horribly wrong. We evolved to live in communities where everyone had each others back, so this attitude of trust was an advantage. Nowadays, where nobody has each others back and everyone is looking out only for himself, trust isn't a good thing anymore.

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Wahaha wrote

I know that my doctor won't get the vaccine for himself, since he considers it unsafe and I trust my doctor more than some stranger on the Internet claiming things. The specific complaint about the process was that the testing was only done on Africans who are genetically different from other races and thus the vaccine is still untested as far as these other races are concerned.

To me it remains untested until it is out in the field for about two years. How are you supposed to figure out long-term damage if you don't give the tests time?

Unfortunately the pharma industry is one that has lost every bit of trust it ever had over the years, so I wouldn't even be surprised if they were lying about everything, faking test results and paying off enough people to keep this under the lid. I recently heard that a cure for cancer was found decades ago, but since it was unprofitable the pharma industry suppressed it successfully. And that's just something I heard in the past few weeks.

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Rambler OP wrote (edited )

Depends on if it's collecting personal identifying information or not.

Just knowing things like traffic stats, busiest traffic days of the week or times of day, traffic total divided by country of origin or popular pages isn't much of a privacy concern anymore than knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, this particular coffee shop is busy.

Narrowing it down to knowing how many times a particular IP accesses the site, what pages, and what they clicked on to get to that page and what they clicked on to exit, etc... Knowing browser stats, screen resolution, OS, etc... That's the privacy concern. Just like knowing that at 5PM on a Friday, /u/mr4channer is at this busy coffee shop, and he was last week too, and often visits between these hours on these days, and orders this, and pays with that, etc. That's the privacy concern. But just having a general understanding of knowing peak usages isn't, in my opinion.

For what it's worth, I don't do any of that for this site. I do have network graphs at the server level that just tells me how much traffic passes. Can't differentiate between traffic from the various networks that way, besides Lokinet, which the service creates it's own virtual ethernet device so it's graphed separately, but with no data other than the just bandwidth in/out. For the purpose of this site, that's enough. Upvotes/comments, perceived activity and looking at a network graph over the course of time (say 3-6 months) will tell me if there is growth or not.

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MyLittlePwned OP wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in Daily Use With Live USB ? by MyLittlePwned

Hi thanks for fast answer !

I already have a amnesic OS with Tails for travel.

I choose the Live-USB option for unplug my OS/files and use it on any device like you said.

I'll use Debian or Artix or maybe TTY (why not LOL).

Nowadays if you want privacy I think the best way is to have Live USB (but the ultimate safest way to have total privacy is simply not be connected at all and totally Off The Grid but that's another topic :) )

Thanks you again for your answer !

PS : do you know any spotify or netflix like .onion ?

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Rambler wrote

I prefer Debian but there are a ton of other flavors of Linux to choose from. You may just want to download a few and see what works best for you: https://www.debian.org/CD/live/

Since it doesn't sound like you need or want an amnesic OS like Tails (which is very popular and used by many via USB) I'd say just about any Linux flavor should work just fine.

Is the Live-USB option so that you can unplug your OS/files and use it on multiple devices, or so you can physically lock up the SSD when not in use (like in a physical safe?), or what? If not, then maybe installing as normal on the device you will use the most and using full disk encryption and following some basic privacy measures will offer you what you're looking for as well.

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Rambler OP wrote

To be fair, I thought about using something to just measure website traffic and in the end, decided against it.

I used to run Piwik as a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics on other sites in the past, but that still gave me the option to view a ton of data that I didn't really 'need'.

I figured for this site I'll just measure growth on perceived activity and BW use over the course of time. This is the first site I've ran that I've not cared about SEO scores and search rankings, that I've not (over) analyzed data over to try to improve this random metric or that.

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Coder wrote

Reply to by !deleted152

these are the ones I know:

also Bibliogram doesn't work anymore :(
does anyone know an alternative ?

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Wahaha wrote

Calling other names isn't a very convincing argument. The most difficult thing about conversations is that most people have trouble to consider that they could be wrong.

I may be wrong and you might be right, but nothing that was said thus far has been convincing me. So I maintain my position that I will not take this untested vaccine this year. Feel free to take it yourself, though. Willing guinea pigs are always welcome, as far as I am concerned.

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