Recent comments in /f/Privacy

podnas wrote

Reply to by !deleted152

Thanks for the post, was not familiar with this plugin !

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furry wrote

Any account that doesn't need to be tied to me I deleted and made an anon account if I still wanted to use it. However, I think I would go insane seeking full anonymity/privacy; There are so many ways companies/people could track you if they desired and I still want to talk to my friends and go by my username that I've been going for by a good portion of my life. So I still keep a Discord, Telegram, Youtube, Steam account, etc.

I run Qubes OS to keep my digital life compartmentalized as well as for security; This lets me set up different network and firewall vms to run things like a tor gateway vm and vpn vm. For example, I have a separate crypto appvm which runs through a different firewall vpn and then through my tor vm to hide my IP. I also use Vivaldi as my main browser with Brave and hardened Firefox as my alt browsers.

I plan to install a custom rom or Linux on my phone since im still using the default one. I know I can still go deeper into the privacy rabbit hole but I think I am at a good point now.

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dandrews wrote

Imo "normies" will be even more unaware of their privacy than they are now, whilst us and maybe more tech-savvy people will use alternative platforms and networks. btw I never understood the "surveillance=safe" equation, even irl. I mean, having cameras everywhere didn't make us safer...

P.S. why Mozilla can't shut up and harden firefox?

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dandrews OP wrote

Thank you Rambler for your thorough response! I found a lot of my thoughts is your reply, even if right now I haven't reached your level of privacy practices (still on social media, using google products, etc.). I try to use floss software where possible and I'm interested in privacy and security topics. My anonymity part of the question was purely from a curiosity stance, since I'm really fascinated with this kind of stuff and this website permits my to apply it a little bit. Surely, my style (especially my typos) is recognizable and traceable, but I'm still going to try to achieve it and to find instruments to spread my opinions. For this I'd like to thank you again Rambler. With this platform you have given a little place to escape my ordinary life without feeling like an outcast for using tor. I hope that Ramble will live a long life!

d.a.

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Rambler OP wrote

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.

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solstice wrote (edited )

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.

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