In the same way you are stupid for not knowing how your car works, sure.

People have limited knowledge about almost everything except their own narrow interests.

We actually have TONS of things incommon with other people. Millions of things. There is no reason to act like you are special, or i am special.

I dont do anything actually bad on the internet. I have never even went to the dark web with the onion protocol. Im just not interested in the shit i would find there.

I use privacy tools because thats what I believe should be default. People deserve their privacy. No company or government actually have the moral right to take it away. They are supposed to be elected by the people to work FOR US. That part is just forgotten now.

Are you sure you can blend in? Depends on the vpn and the laws I guess… If they are able to identify your connection. As far as I know, they all have credentials connected to your account…

You probably dont want to use a super well known vpn for many reasons…

I dont use the well known ones, seems to me that those would be the first to have backdoors since people pick them.

I have a vpn that is never mentioned anywhere. Perfect.

Dont think we all should need to suffer because creators and ad agencies “need” to make a living. The entire internet economy is built on centralized platforms owned by big tech now. It sucks so much.

Not much remains of the original ideas of the web. People think social media is the web.

Ok. Better.

Mullvad of course. Proton is American right?

Long ago i was building a front-end for YouTube. Back then it was just a parameter to the video in the embedded iframe. So my front-end was playing all videos without any account or being logged in.

Since the plugin works, I guess it just toggles that parameter too. Not sure why Google doesnt require an actual login but they dont (or didnt).

Please let it be over, yes.

Nobody even tries to write code from scratch anymore. I think it will have a lot of negative effects on programmers over time.

It’s normal to have that experience, something is outdated, some things are not intuitive but you come out as a winner on the other side if you don’t give up. :)

See you guys next year.

If something is part of the world plan, it’s not going away.

Maybe it’s OK. The big tech sites are anyway becoming mostly ads and Ai content, so it will probably become like cable TV before people just quit it.

People can rise up at any time and start destroying the machines that guard them.

It’s not bad enough yet but at some point, people won’t accept it anymore. Probably when they have almost nothing left to fight for.

Phones are ridiculously expensive now. I was always buying the best phone growing up, but now it’s absolutely not worth it. People pay for great cameras, essentially, and then post most of their pics on social media where it’s compressed and converted from the original image anyway.

I lost the trust with windows 8 :)

It’s funny that privacy software is written in languages with so many footguns…

Some people would love if it all were just memes and no discussions. Lemmy is getting there because downvoting pushes down a lot of valid opinions.

I think people who enjoy downvoting are people who generally never themselves have any opinions that differ from the majority one.

I imagine because he is curious about using something other than the default option that everyone else is using?

Just because most people are basics doesn’t mean everyone is.

Oh silly mistake.

Laughing all the way to the bank.

A more cynical take is that they understand very well, but are being compensated by big tech for looking the other way.

Good people often can’t comprehend how evil people work, and they say “everyone makes mistakes”, or “they don’t understand fully”. Because we want to think that everyone is mostly good.

It’s not like that. :/

Hmm. What games are for Mac OS? I have never played a game on a mac ever. Not even seen what can be played.

All posts should be like this, say if it’s paywalled so we don’t have to click.

Microsoft teams also stopped working on Firefox… Guess they don’t like the tracking prevention stuff. :)

How is remembering one master password worse than using Google single sign on with a password?

Who remembers their passwords? Use a password manager and it’s as simple as a Google login. It even fills in the credentials automatically on a hotkey.

Ok you have to create a new password the first time you want to register somewhere. But how lazy can people get? It’s also just a button click in a password manager.

Yeah it sounds extreamly unusual that people in Paris live so close to their home. But I think the French culture is about enjoying life as much as possible. They may choose a job nearby to avoid having to deal with shitty transports every day.

That’s not why most people drive cars. I’ve lived in cities with public transport all my life. But when I got my driving license, my life quality increased enormously. It’s like night and day. Not only can I drive where I want when I want, I can avoid other commuters that are very often loud or annoying. I don’t have to stand at bus stops or train stations and seeing them being delayed or canceled either.

I agree that some people drive poorly though. But the solution is to train them better, not to get rid of cars. You can hardly have an adult life with family without a car.

It’s just a dns server. You need to use Firefox with its tracking protection and plugins like ublock origin.

Or you can use a dns based ad blocker like pihole so all your devices on your home network is protected.

Then if you are like me, you set up a wireguard server at home, and configures your phone to use that as an always on VPN. And then your phone is also protected by your pihole even if you are away from home and using 3g/4g traffic.

I don’t know, maybe nice to try, but I don’t have any issues playing games on the ordinary kernel…

Nvidia is the reason why most people have issues.

I never see the homepage even. It shows up if you close the browser? I never do that on my phone.

Most important thing is you can change your search engine to whatever you want.

Ok and if you don’t trust anyone, you don’t have any protection at all.

Personally I don’t trust any big tech companies, naturally. But there are smaller vpn providers like Mullvad that are trustworthy. They are never American.

I trust my vpn provider, but I don’t trust my isp to not give out my ip. So using a VPN is obvious and I havent had any issues doing that for decades.

If your mindset is that you can’t trust anyone, then yes, doesn’t matter. But you can trust some of them. You need to know which ones have a history of caring about privacy and which ones are just advertised heavily.

The simplest and most reasonable explanation is because they profit from it. They are competing but they know a win-win situation.

All these fucking guys and big tech companies are a big club. They all know eachother and hang out together. Users are a resource to be mined. Who cares if it gives teenagers psychological problems. More drug sales sounds great for their buddies in big pharma.

Firefox has anti fingerprinting too. It’s in settings where you set your tracking protection. I think you have to choose custom and it’s there.

It’s how the web works, but you can absolutely block third party cookies. Firefox helps A LOT just with its default tracking protection.

Nobody has actually fined any instance yet, and they are not going after your little instance if they start doing it.

It would be Lemmy.world first as a target because of their size and the entire lemmy network would not stop talking about it for weeks.

They may even save every Google meet meeting for all we know. They may train their AI on how our faces look in meetings.

Nothing is too creepy for Google.

It has no place in a source code repository… It starts small and gets worse. Always.

Ok. These votes are not about picking presidents, so…

I see Apple in the name, so how private? Wide open.