From the article:

Additional precise and specific actions must also be taken:

Okay, cool. What?

Reveal who is paying for advertisements, how much they are paying and who is being targeted.

Political advertising? Sure. Make sure you do both sides.

Commit to meaningful transparency of platform algorithms so we know how and what content is being amplified, to whom, and the associated impact.

Or people could just ditch social media, it provides no value to your life. Algorthims are designed specifically to engage you, to show you content that keeps you on the site. This allows better collection of data about you, and ensures you see the most relevant advertising. We already know 'how they work' and the associated 'impact'. big tech isn't your friend. It's not you're nanny. You're the product.

Turn on by default the tools to amplify factual voices over disinformation.

Gonna be a big NO from me. We've seen time and time again that big tech can not be trusted to provide 'additional context' and 'factual information' when they do it with a heavy handed bias and increased selectivity. Fuck Firefox for even suggesting that.

Work with independent researchers to facilitate in-depth studies of the platforms’ impact on people and our societies, and what we can do to improve things.

Just stick to making Firefox not suck. Stay out of politics. For fucks sake.

The answer is not to do away with the internet, but to build a better one that can withstand and gird against these types of challenges. This is how we can begin to do that.

There they are again with the, "build a better internet" lingo. How about: No. Maybe I'm all alone in feeling this and people here will support a more restrictive clearnet. But I'm very much against it.

And all I posted was the same, since I enjoy landscape photography and nature in general. I can view that stuff anywhere, but haven't found a place (yet) to really share some of the work I do or have done.

You could set up a Pixelfed instance. It's like a self-hosted, federated (ActivityPub) Instagram.

Not as much as I could and I have no illusion of attaining anonymity. I try to walk a path towards more anonymity, but I'm walking it very slowly. In the end I'm compromising a lot for convenience. Like the saying goes, security at the expense of convenience goes at the expense of security.

Good resource. I'll probably work on a large privacy focused wiki entry soon and include these, and reference this post as a contributing source, however.

Is anyone surprised?

For privacy, to me, it was a matter of removing myself from social media. Facebook seemed like it'd be hard to 'give up', even though I didn't use it for much more than following some hobby related groups or Messenger to talk to family.

But I downloaded my data from it, deactivated it. Haven't looked back. Seriously, it's so easy to quit. Tell your friends to PM you their numbers and to download the Signal app. Share your email address on your timeline. If someone wants to keep in touch with you, they will keep in touch with you. If they do not, then why care? Deactivate it and don't look back, you'll be happier when you're not fed information that an algorithm has determined will get YOU to click more and spend more time on the site.

Then I did the same for Instagram. IG, though owned by Facebook, made it much more difficult to remove yourself from it. I first deactivated my account, but re-activated it so that I could download my data from it. But then, had to wait a week as IG only allows you to deactivate your account once per week, and all of these actions must take place from their desktop site, not on the mobile app. What a fucking trainwreck of a process that is.

I haven't missed IG, either. For me, I just followed a lot of outdoorsy people and some real life friends. I liked seeing pictures of nature, cabins and all that. And all I posted was the same, since I enjoy landscape photography and nature in general. I can view that stuff anywhere, but haven't found a place (yet) to really share some of the work I do or have done.

Anyway, all of that was just to be a bit more private, mainly from employers who may find me as I search for work. Not that I ever really posted any opinions publicly.

But when reviewing the data I downloaded about myself, I began to want to become more anonymous online, too. These companies collect a metric shit-ton of data about you, and it just felt... concerning.

So that's when I stopped using the same username in more than one place, started to convince my friends/family to use Signal. Well, at least a couple of them do now. And it's my main form of communication with them. Started to De-Google my life. Started to use anonymity networks like I2P and Tor more, and research others. A big reason why this site exists is to encourage others to use and research various networks as well and to encourage them to be more privacy minded.

So to answer you second question: Do you seek anonymity?

Not 100%. At least not as 'Rambler'. I'm working on a commercial project completely unrelated to this site that will eventually be tied to my real identity, and I'm okay with that. I've mentioned it elsewhere on the web but not here (well until now). I've spoken enough about interests in places like IRC that would give a rough profile of me, and have typed enough messages to reveal a writing style that could be analyzed further with the above profile. If someone was determined enough they may be able to plot out my normal times online, my timezone to narrow down a geographical region, paint a profile of me based on comments about events, probably guess an age range with relative accuracy, etc.

But, my goal isn't to be 100% anonymous anyway. It's to simply be more in control with what is available to others and to move away from big tech.

With that said I've been 'somewhat' privacy minded for years, having used Linux primarily for the last 10-15 years, having ran a Pi-Hole to block ads/trackers/other junk at the network level since the project was young 4 or 5 years ago, always used password managers and randomly created passwords/phrases for every site as good security practice, etc, etc. But that is the 'lite' version of how I operate now, so to speak.

Can you be 100% anonymous? I'd say so, if we're talking about public facing identity online. Though I believe that there would be ways for the alphabet agencies to determine the identity of someone online who may have caught their interest, but you'd have to have REALLY caught their interest for that process to even begin, and the amount of resources they'd have to burn through to ID someone who is being very careful would be insane.

https://libredd.it another reddit front-end with new redesign, no JS
https://invidio.us youtube front-end, only lists instances now
https://notabug.io alternative to reddit, with focus on free speech

well done, I have replaced that google spy a long while ago, everyone should

based, use ebay, craigslist or dwm. don't use cc to pay, use paypal at least when ordering shit.

wear a hat

Here's the short version:

GMail → ProtonMail - based

Chrome → Firefox developer edition - unless you are a dev

Google search → DuckDuckGo - searx too, based

Google Drive → Sync and Backblaze - meh, syncthing

Google DNS → Cloudflare DNS - dilate

Maps → Apple maps - based, openstreetmap

YouTube → Netflix, TED talks, conference archives, and still a little YouTube (anonymously in a Firefox container) - netflix dilate, ted talks based

Google Analytics → Fathom - dilate

Everything else (calendar, reminders, photos, docs, video chat, news feeds) Nextcloud, running on my own instance - based

its easy if you don't have 100+ subscriptions and dont have to use it for work.

Like the project, but it uses bloated bootstrap front-end

b4s3d h4ck3rs

So security cams at a train station aren't an issue because technically no one is forced to use this public facility? Whether someone is forced to attend school or not doesn't change that a school is part of your public life, not of your private life. Teachers and other students will be able to look at you, what difference does it make whether a camera is pointed at you or not?

No one is forced to turn on their own webcam, either. It's just a thing that benefits everyone, so most people do it. Reading peoples faces is very helpful in conversations, just like it is to hear their voice.

The point isn't to have students look at a camera, it's to have the camera look at the student. The benefit is that software can notice when a student stops paying attention. Or discover cheating during tests. Or bullying. Teachers can work with this feedback to improve and students can be reprimanded based on this.

It's not very helpful for other things, but during my time I would have very much appreciated something like this, if it could help in suppressing the students not interested in learning. Those were the biggest obstacles back in elementary school. It is very unfortunate that there are no immediate repercussions for bad students. Pointing a camera at each students face could act first as a deterrent towards bad behaviour and second as evidence for the consequences the student will experience, especially for their parents.

There was facial recognition tech in school? Are all children assumed to be guilty now? Just throw them in jail at birth then.

There was facial recognition tech in school? Are all children assumed to be guilty now? Just throw them in jail at birth then.

It's a public institution you are forced to go to.

Because of corona lots of children had classes from home with a camera pointed at their face, anyway

Once again, forced. Forcing people to do one thing and then justifying something else because "obviously they're OK with the latter" is not a very good argument.

Do you think forcing somebody to look at a camera means:

• they will comprehend what's being said
• they will hear what is being
• that they are paying attention
• that the material they are being show is good

?

The reason people are OK with video meetings is due to control over your environment. You can disable you camera. You can spoof it with software.

The operator says that the hackers got customers' name, surname, phone number, email, date and place of birth, nationality, and address. They also have the SIM Integrated Circuit Card Identification Number (ICCID) - a unique number providing the card's country, home network, and identification.

Combined, these details can be used for SIM-swapping attacks that enable hackers to assign a victim's phone number to a SIM card in their possession and thus receive the target's calls and text messages.

Well, that's not good.

Don't ublock and umatrix block resources from external sites by default? The whole website might show up as a jumbled mess for me. I always try to keep the number of 3rd party request low and especially if the website isn't important to me, I'd stop using it if it required too many external resources.

Plus, if they're that lax about security, who knows what else is lurking? Wouldn't surprise me if their ssh user and password were admin:passw0rd! or something.

P.S I'm glad that's not what you were suggesting to use here because then I'd have quit immediately.

A school is a public institution, though, and the classroom isn't somewhere you have privacy in the first place. Because of corona lots of children had classes from home with a camera pointed at their face, anyway, so I don't see a camera pointing at your face during class as a privacy issue.

Yes.

That sounds like a terrible idea. Everyone should have the right to privacy.

What would the use case be, anyway? Maybe like what they did in China, where every student has a dedicated face camera that notices when the student stops paying attention. A teacher can't look at every student at the same time or all the time, but a camera can. That would be a really useful application.