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8·2 天前It’s too late for us Americans,
Nah fuck that. I’m not giving up. We’re down, bruised and battered, but we’re not out. We’ve been through dark times before. This is my fucking home. Gonna be a cold day in hell before I stop fighting for it.
But yeah… I also wish the best for our friends in the UK, EU, and elsewhere, who are up against similar shit. We must all fight the good fight. And help each other as we do.
Yow. That’s insane.
supposedly “anonimized” but in such a weak and inefective way it was proven it could easilly be de-anonimized.
More info about that idea from Harvard University.
Anonymizing personal info is way harder than most ppl realize. Bordering on impossible when there is other data about those people to use. That Harvard page mentions voter records. But I think more to the massive trove of behavior data that devices capture about everybody now. That paints a very intimate picture of everything most ppl do. Everywhere they go. All their interests. Their moods. Their habits. Their friends group. That is the basis of powerful de-anonymizing techniques. And data broker companies are VERY good at this. They hire incredibly smart data scientists.
I sincerely doubt anyone’s medical data today can remain private. Might be data breaches. Might be de-anonymization. But it will not stay confidental between pt and dr for long.
Paywalled, but I’ll assume the NHS here is the National Health Service in the UK.
“Just don’t get sick bro!”
The prob ofc is, everybody will need healthcare in their life. We are at our most vulnerable when we need it the most.
Here in the US we have had endless breaches of healthcare data. Companies that promise to keep it secure. Ofc they can’t. Even the ones who make a good faith effort. They can’t either! So we get mass breaches, millions of patients. On a monthly basis. Or even more often. Of intimate data. Medications. Dr notes about the patient. Diseases you have.
In my parents day, health info was a piece of paper in a filing cabinet. Nobody could access it from across the planet! Even the gov could not, unless they sent somebody there with a search warrant. Today? It’s open fucking season.
Boils my blood.
Chrome is an alternative browser for most people.
I dunno about most. Some, sure.
Browser market share 2009-2025
That green line is Chrome.
Ayup absolutely. Those co’s have such weight. They can drive this into essential services. Banks. Gov services. All online stores. Heck even sites that don’t need logins.
It’s short sighted to say “I’ll just use other sites then”. The end of that road is, we get excluded from modern life.
You’re so right, it’s dystopian.
Realistically, it’s keeping people in their walled garden.
I felt for a long time, “trusted computing” is such a doublespeak term. It gets avg ppl to think “Oh ofc i want to trust my device! Who wouldn’t want that?”
Ofc what it really does, is gives BigTech the final control over everybody’s dev.
I think there are a few valid reasons. I made a page for my friends for some videos of their adopted puppy they wanted to share. Absolutely ZERO trackers, ZERO fingerprinters. Just oldschool pre-enshittification web page. But CSS wasn’t enough to dynamically switch the vdieo res when windows were resized, without losing current playback spot. It needed a little JS. Not much! Tiny and you could just look to see it did nothign bad.
Prob is, abuses by Big Evil Tech now overwhelm non-shitty uses. And we’re left with a completely enshittified web. Full of fingerprinters and trackers and web bugs. Inescapable surveilence b/c they abuse every possible signal to track ppl.
This is why we cannot have nice things.
What do you plan to do? Dumbphone? No phone? Break glass in case of emergency phone in a faraday pouch?
I’m considering a break-glass dumbphone in a faraday pouch. I REALLY fucking hate location tracking. I’d keep it seperate from my IRL ID. Prob is, it’s hard. Screw up once, big data pounces. One call tied to your name in any way. One friend puts it in their contacts. One time to forget the pouch and there’s a location ping at your residence. Not to mention the difficulty of even buying it and setting up a plan. Ugh :(
Like I cannot unfuck shit faster than they can enshittify the world
That’s such a good way to put it. Captures my feeling perfectly.
It’s so demoralising. Like trying to hold back the tide.
Yup I loves me some yt-dlp. But big tech is at war with it. They do everything possible to break it.
Sometimes it works only if you supply some token or credential. Which defeats the purpose. Other times it works monday but breaks tuesday.
Mad respect to ytdlp team for fighting this fight. But their enemy is formidable.
Agree. That’s fallout from web becoming soooo complex. You have webasm. WebGl. JS compilation. WebRTC. Like a hundred other techs you need.
In the old days, a small team could make its own engine. There wasnt’ so much to it. Now, only like 3 co’s in the world can. And one of the 3 is propreitary for only their own hw.
There’s Gemini ofc. But I doubt it will ever catch on outside like 0.001%.
Ayup that has been the holy grail of big tech.
They are most of the way there today. Make Identity Resolution inescapable. Bing bang boom.
It is more than just phones and lappys too. It’s everything. That smart TV. That fitness watch. That automobile. That streaming music service. The ebook reader you got as a birthday gift.
Your behavior across every single device is data gold. This is today’s reality.
Sad thing is, that argument works against so many ppl. “I can trust this app. It’s from Google!”
We(*) are tearing down personal computing. Brick by brick. The very idea of controling our own devs is getting lost. Replacing with Big Tech Feudalism.
(*) Not most of us here. But in the whole pop.
Oh, thanks! I never even heard of them.
I will invstigate. Sounds kinda promising from my skim of the site.
IDK (prob?), but more and more of the privacy structures I set up for myself are being torn down like that.
I once set up a private VOIP. I hardly ever used it. I paid on time, every month for like 4 years. Prob made like 1 call a month avg to a local biz or w/e. Suddenly one day, company demands my ID. I wouldn’t give it. Service terminated. I never used it for anything bad. Not once. That never even crossed my mind. I just did not want my call history scraped and sold to data brokers.
I hate this. My ability to escape the mass surveilence is crumbling.
Oh thanks.
That’s def not the one I was thinking of then.
Tryin to trawl through my saved bookmarks… it might(???) have been this link. But when I try it now, it’s an invalid URL. It was years ago. Maybe the site or domain wasn’t kept up. So I’m not completely sure that was even the right URL.
https://hfet.org/google-recaptcha-privacy-nightmare/
I searched just now and found a few sites mirroring the claim. But they did not have the technical breakdown. Here’s something from The Register.
That story claims too, the more you are in google’s ecosystem, the easier you can pass the recaptcha. For example, Chrome users get past easer than Firefox.
I do have working a link about the infinite captcha block technique! Blocking via an unsolvable CAPTCHA. Warning, google domain. Goes to patents.google.
Protip. 90% of the time if you disable JS completely in your browser, that prevents the cookie dialogs. Sometimes prevents other annoyware too.
My fav are the ones where you can click “Accept all”, or “More Options…” and the Options path goes to like 50 pages of confusingly worded separate options that’d take 20 min to figure out them all. Asshole design.