Recent comments in /f/Privacy

Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Linux devices have a unique identifier called machine-id. Here is how to change it. by Rambler

Honesty, I'm not certain, but it appears in every mainstream distro that uses systemd.

Most people are aware of MAC addresses, but if you search the web for machine-ID being seen as a privacy concern, you'll find nothing.

No need to have a constant, unchanging value that exists from the moment a system is installed.

I'll research it more and update the blog post if I find anything noteworthy.

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spc50 wrote

Reply to RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler

Microsoft talking about disinformation?????? What do we have here...

We have a once monopoly company, plus a 'creative' company that is so far up average internet users a$$ with ads and profiling, then the mouthpiece of MI-6.

Blah blah blah.

Anti fake news.

When did Microsoft ever care about open source and standards? Had to reverse engineer much of their stuff to have Open Source alternatives and viewers.

Fuck these companies. Fuck their founders. Fuck that fake organization too.

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Rambler OP wrote

Reply to comment by Toxicant in RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler

Never too late to adopt. Widows XP sp3 was the last Windows OS I've ran, and haven't looked back since. Though I'll admit that I like simple desktop environments like MATE and XFCE to replicate the classic and familiar navigation that I grew used to from Windows NT 3.1, 95, 98, 2000 and XP.

For newcomers you can't really go wrong with something like Pop_OS, Ubuntu or Mint. They seem to have good support and are really new-user friendly communities behind them.

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Wingless wrote

Reply to RIP Internet Privacy. In effort to combat "disinformation", your digital finger print may be tagged to every image you create or share in the near future. by Rambler

I've already lost track of how many spy codes are in images. There are so many ways of burying "metadata" in those formats - it's what they were MADE for - and programs that claim to "strip" it are probably "accidentally" forgetting something.

This looks like one more whack at it - I'm not sure from reading that it is a tremendously NEW thing - I'm not sure how they plan to change, say, a .GIF file (not that that didn't have open-ended spy data storage protocols built in already). Are they doing so?

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smartypants wrote

Reply to comment by div1337 in Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

Apple has a falwless securty record on contents of your iPhone.

They enhance that part every year, annoying FBI. Read all the court battles in the news of FBI vs Apple regarding getting into iPhones and getting into iCloud

In fact , they even now in 2021 suddenly map EVERY attempt to have google "safe browsing" go through a single apple proxy that uses a second layer of obfuscation and hash on that to make no ones browsing ever trackable by Google.

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smartypants wrote

Reply to comment by boobs in Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

you are probably right :apple now has spy circuits built into their chips for audio to text, and circuits to do face identification built into chip, and this month apple big sur OS on m1 macs is VERY HARD to run older unsigned code and very very hard to turn off "SIP" elements to modify kernel files, or even use a debugger, and if you do turn off SIP, you must perform an action from the spy software inside the m1 mac that makes machine never load the new iOS compatibility engine code.

apple iCloud might be safe from FBI, but soon Apple china will maybe own all of you.

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Kalchaya wrote

Reply to Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

Probably because they are just too busy servicing their 5,938 faux friendsies on Fakebook, 8,938 fellow twits on Twitter, making Reddit safe for commiekind, playing stoopid video games, bragging about how privacy is dead, and ranting about how the only people who want privacy is them with something to hide.....to actually become informed on this (or pretty much any other topic).

They much prefer to careen through their pathetic little lives, running on what Gurdjieff called 'autopilot', and either regurgitating the thoughts and opinions of others...or basing their thoughts and opinions on feelings, childish assumptions, idealistic fallacies, etc. Anything to embrace intellectual sloth, or avoid original thought.

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div1337 wrote

Reply to Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

Apple has a terrible track record on these things.

Apple is great at marketing and make people trust them, then baam, exploit after exploit for taking over iPhone.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Awesome Privacy: A curated list of tools and services that respect your privacy by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

I actually don't think you need to put a lot of effort in order to make Flash usable in a browser. Just get Adobe Flash 32.0.0.363 from Internet Archive (clear net only) and Basilisk Browser (clear net only). Sure, Adobe made Flash dead since 12 January 2021, Mozilla will fully kill Flash after 7 September 2021, Google made Flash dead since 19 January 2021, Microsoft released a Flash-killing update on 18 February 2021, Apple was the earliest to kill Flash on 16 September 2020, so using Flash has been made more difficult, but it's still not impossible!

And actually, if you know how Microsoft earns money, then I guess it's fine?

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in Awesome Privacy: A curated list of tools and services that respect your privacy by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

Flash died at the beginning of 2021. Unless you put lots of effort in, it won't work in any browser anymore.

I trust Microsoft more than I trust DDG, which is why I have no problem using Bing directly. And the reason I trust Microsoft is because I understand how they make money. I don't use Bing, I use searx. But I'd use Bing over DDG.

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BlackWinnerYoshi wrote

Reply to comment by Wahaha in Awesome Privacy: A curated list of tools and services that respect your privacy by RandomlyGeneratedUsername

TL;DR: yes, ungoogled-chromium was a pain to create, but IDK why would you use Bing/Yahoo directly instead of using DuckDuckGo as a middleman.

Ah, creating ungoogled-chromium. It was a pain, and while Eloston (I guess that's their name?) is a nice and skilled guy, the Chromium codebase is massive, so I feel like this might not be long until ungoogled-chromium dies, and that's sad because I won't really have any good web browser choices:

  • GNU IceCat - it's freetardist, so no Flash Player, and there's the annoying LibreJS add-on. Also, it still suffers from Firefox's BS, like the bad UI, slow speed, barely any configuration, depreciated XUL add-ons, etc.
  • Pale Moon - has an add-on blocklist, enables WebAssembly by default, has spyware by default, etc.
  • Otter Browser - uses QtWebEngine, which is controlled by Goolag, and it doesn't support add-ons

I think the only good browser is Web Browser, but, well, it turns out the compiling process for Windoze (which I might be still forced to use) has been removed, so that's a problem.

Also, why would you use Bing directly instead of through a proxy like DuckDuckGo? (I mean, it could fit into the definition of a proxy server - a server that is a middleman between the user and the other server) Or Yahoo, for that matter, since both are used when searching with DuckDuckGo? In this case, I would rather proxy than to directly give data to some big corpo, but okay.

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boobs wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by smartypants in Why are normies like that? by Wahaha

i personally dont trust apple enough to think they'd continue to do this in a competent fashion. apple has the worst track record with security than any other tech company.

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