resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

#BurnermailIO is apparently the only e-mail forwarding service that strips off the original "To:" header, so you have no way of knowing which address the sender used to reach you. What's the idea? Is it to conceal the disposable address from your #email provider?

Delete Chrome. Now.

Google is using its exceptionally powerful position to make *the browser itself* analyze your browsing behavior and serve that on a plate in the form of "cohorts" to anyone interested.

They are transforming Chrome into a "browsing-history-passport" - right now.

If you care about your intellectual freedom even a little bit, you must put Chrome out of your life as soon as possible. Support others doing the same.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#DeleteChrome

I would like thousands of non-javascript Tor users to call 650-432-3200, which is simply answered by a human, and ask why is it that they get "One more step..." when visiting https://usa.visa.com/legal/privacy-policy-opt-out.html. Ask for technical support on why that screen appears, and ask how they can opt out of #Visa info sharing.

8 free-world-expanding projects are proposed here to improve #netneutrality and/or counter rampant #censorship:

https://sopuli.xyz/post/3134

Vote for the project that you think would be most beneficial. This is the 1st four of 8 proposals. Please vote in both polls.

Poll 1/2:

8 free-world-expanding projects are proposed here to improve #netneutrality and/or counter rampant #censorship:

https://sopuli.xyz/post/3134

Vote for the project that you think would be most beneficial. This is the 2nd four of 8 proposals. Please vote in both polls.

Poll 2/2:

@jookia I guess this goes without saying, but remote browsing is a privacy disaster. There's no point in controlling what your client sends to the cloud if your client IS in the cloud.

Introducing Innernet - Jake McGinty @ Tonari: https://blog.tonari.no/introducing-innernet

Code on Github: https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

2011: The Thinkpad T420 is the best general-purpose laptop ever made.
2021: The Thinkpad T420 is the best general-purpose laptop ever made.

"It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes." – Keith Braithwaite

Seriously. A durable, upgradable, battery-swappable laptop with a bunch of ports, trackpoint, middle-mouse button, good keyboard, and LED lamp that can take advantage of at least *some* of the power efficiency and hardware decoding improvements of the past decade. That's it. That's all I need.

Let's stop calling them "#Facebook users". Instead, call them "Facebook pawns". This is not to take away dignity; it's to clarify the distinction between real Facebook users (those who pay money to FB in exchange for influence) and those who are used by FB in service to genuine users.

Championing privacy and tech freedom with friends and family has often been a thankless or worse experience for me. Being the bearer of bad news and inconvenient facts puts misplaced ire on me. Ignorance is bliss. I feel a responsibility to my friends and family and do not want to be alone in understanding. At the same time, I do not want to be hated. I really try to restrain and tone down the topic, but the ideas consume me. I guess many people here have a similar experience?

The folks giving support in the #ImageMagick forum *refuse* to help anyone they suspect is trying to use ImageMagick to solve CAPTCHAs. They think they're on the side of humanity by fighting bots, but it's actually the other way around. The sooner bots defeat #CAPTCHA, the sooner the burden on humans forced to solve them will end.

hmm, evidently J&J has 20 million doses ready to go now.

I've been thinking of taking a course at the #OpenUniversity lately but am concerned about some things. Could anyone who works or studies there please fill me in on how much they go above and beyond the law wrt discrimination based on race ("positive discrimination") and censorship based on viewpoint (as opposed to moderation based on manner of speech, which IMO is fine)?

Boosts/repeats appreciated.

Lawyers: when #CloudFlare claims their Remote Browser Isolation service is "Zero Trust web browsing", even though CloudFlare themselves see everything on your browser screen regardless of where you visit, would a truth in advertizing challenge succeed? https://web.archive.org/web/20210323130327/https://blog.cloudflare.com/browser-isolation-for-teams-of-all-sizes