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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.
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The impact of this is probably greatly reduced by anti-JS measures like NoScript. Some sites probably still bundle fingerprinting code into their own scripts, but the really big players contract that out to companies whose entire purpose is data-harvesting, and that’s easily defeated by denying scripts from outside domains
I liked the idea of noscript but, it just wasn’t practical to adjust it to every site which scripts should run and which shouldn’t
Yeah, it definitely makes browsing a lot more hands-on, and the lack of cross-device syncing means that you’re constantly duplicating work. There’s probably a way to export settings and diff/patch and sync the settings files for each device, but I just haven’t bothered; seems like a lot of time investment to automate something that takes me seconds to do manually.
On the other hand, there were two big shifts for me after I started using it. One was when I got the sites I use frequently all set up after a few weeks, it became a lot smoother sailing after that. The other was when I finally took the minute to find the setting to default (temporarily) allow, but only for the current domain (after like a year or two on default deny everything).
It’s now rare that I visit sites where I feel like I’m missing out without the added scripts. The only times that has really changed is when everything started implementing anti-scraper measures, and sites along the high seas that have trouble streaming videos from other servers.
For sure, blocking those scripts goes a LONG way. But that’ll only work until lots of ppl do it. If it ever catches on big, the Identity Brokers will adapt. They’ll integrate their shit into sites in ways that are hard or impossible to separate this easily without totally breaking the site you were trying to visit.
IDK for sure, but I fear we could be living on borrowed time.
As long as there’s an incentive to violate privacy, it will always be an arms race. The upside is that we’ll get better and keep adapting just as they do.