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Cake day: Oct 28, 2023

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It’s like enabling https on your website with a self-signed certificate. Cool but worthless as an indication of validity to anyone but yourself.


To maintain my privacy I proxy it though :)

To be fair for now it’s only used to access some admin portals for services I got running (Arr stack, syncthing, etc). The main domain isn’t even mapped (so gives 404), though at some point that might become a portfolio website.


Seeing as my homelab domain is literally {first name}{last name}.{country I live in} I didn’t really care :P


Big fuck you to the Belgian govt who detected my developer settings being on and blocked their app from working…


Anddd… You use wifi to connect to their servers, so they’ll have your residential ip (unless you got a VPN on at all times… And even then there’s probs some way to fingerprint you enough). Partner uses the same wifi network and your profiles are linked again…

There really just is no way to completely escape. Blocking all ads and trackers on a DNS level (using a pi-hole or external service like nextdns[paid, but its pretty good]). Is a good solution though, at least you won’t need to actually see ads


I use it all the time for the one time use cards, and it’s been effortless to use.

The data breach is of course bad, but no company is completely immune to those.

Privacy policy… Is not a great look (especially with the marketing being opt-out and having a convoluted process…) I honestly hadn’t heard about it. But even now I’ll continue to use it because weighing the marketing vs my CC details out there is still not a hard choice.


Depending on where you live Revolut might be an option for you. Unlike privacy.com its basically just an online bank where you can open an account and send money to/from, but they offer a one-time-use credit card (which changes every time you use it).


Simply making the hash really hard is not a good option. All most people will notice is that their underpowered phone suddenly takes way longer to unlock compared to before. Cracking the hash on very powerful hardware is then ‘trivial’

As the other comment mentioned, a hardware solution seems to be the only one.


What I use for such sites is a frozen card which I only unfreeze after setting a limit for my exact purchase amount. Pay, freeze again for the next time.


brave article finds only good things about brave and only bad things about Firefox

Color me surprised /s


This is accurate, it is also accurate for (at least some part of) android though… Going into recovery boot requires the phone pin for my mid-range phone. Hell even turning off the phone can be set to require pin or biometric.


It can be searched just fine, Googled my tag to see where I get hits, and quite a few are Lemmy comments.