A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don’t promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
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The security part is the reason I use NoScript to do this. We’ve all typo squatted sites we visit, I’m sure. But if I typo squat a site I frequently visit and see the JavaScript disabled, it forces me to recheck I’m on the right site. Granted it’s only happened once where I didn’t realize I typo’d until seeing it was disabled, but it only takes 1 time to lose everything…
Not sure the fingerprint concerns are too major for me either. Hopefully most scenarios, I’m flagged as a bot or crawler and out of some data that would otherwise have been collected. Who knows. I imagine that JavaScript makes up for way more fingerprinting though.
For critical functionality like banking and stuff it’s also a good idea to put a bookmark to the right site on the toolbar and then only ever access it via bookmarks.