It literally happened in the US with period tracker app data getting subpoenaed in a state with an abortion ban.

It’s not even just the technical barriers. Lemmy has technical barriers and still works fine. Matrix is soooooo fucking SSSSSSLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW. A simple chat program that takes longer to load a channel than it takes for my aging PC to boot an AAA game is simply unusable. This is 2024, not 1994.

To my knowledge, it’s kind of hard to quantify exactly how much information is lost with a normal blurring algorithm (gaussian, box, etc), but it’s usually less than you think. There are certain edge cases where no information is lost at all and the original image can be perfectly reconstructed if it’s simple enough. Even if it’s a normal photo of something complex, a deconvolution algorithm can work seemingly impossible magic on a blurry image without the need for an AI that will hallucinate details.

On the other hand, pixelating part of an image provably removes a large amount of information from that section of the image and no algorithm will be able to de-pixelate something without hallucinating details. Using a big box is the absolute best because it just deletes all information from that part of the image.

ETA: the problem is a lot worse in videos because you can use multiple frames with different offsets to reconstruct a higher quality image even if it’s pixelated.

Gotcha, thanks.

Sounds like a user education/UI issue.

Is it even possible to block Tor? You could block specific exit nodes, but not all of them unless you had a way to detect when someone was using Tor.

You also can’t import history from SMS. I would love to use Signal more, but it needs to support SMS properly if they want it to be linked to phone numbers the way it is.

Why not just have the VM click random shit on the window?

See edited title, since that’s apparently all you read. Why does everyone keep doing that? You’re like the fourth person. (I already got my question answered btw)

On Windows, it’s just an installer with no updater. That was my issue.

That wasn’t the point of my question. Some websites just don’t work on Firefox.

The original article was published before DuckDuckGo eliminated, in August 2022, an exception that did permit some Microsoft-owned tracking scripts on websites to send data to Microsoft.

So they got caught and went, “Oops! My bad!”

From what I saw, it was fairly easy to turn that off in the settings and install uBlock Origin to cover the gaps in their tracker. I meant Vivaldi post-hardening, not “out of the box” with 0 settings or extensions changed.

Maybe you messed up your mic perms or something. Only thing I can think of.

They make tracker exceptions for Microsoft, don’t they?

Didn’t know that existed, will definitely do more research into it. Thanks!

Most of them I don’t remember because I only need to visit them once. What prompted me to get Vivaldi, however, was my patient portal. I can’t say which service because it’s PII.

I use discord on FF and have never seen that. Only issue I have is that I can’t upload stuff to the sound board.

Understandable lol

Wow, awesome! I’ll have to look into it when I have a chance.

Yeah, Windows unfortunately. You have to completely reinstall it every time. Unless you constantly check for updates, you’ll be behind on security.

That’s a good suggestion, but I’m talking about websites that actually break on Firefox, not just refuse to work. I can’t send messages to my doctor because the portal gives an XML parsing error on Firefox.

I’m asking specifically about Chromium browsers to be used as needed for compatibility.

Which one? The post has half a dozen links.

I mean, you can just install ClearURLs on Firefox for both desktop and Android and it will cover 99% of cases completely automatically without any technical knowledge.

Did you just… admit to doing it on purpose, tell me to fuck off, delete both the duplicate and abrasive comment, and then finally claim that it was an app glitch?

DeSantis would be worse. Competent evil VS flailing baby.

Why are you copy-pasting the same comment on multiple posts?

Bad analogy, removing network capabilities is actually beneficial to you.