I’m honestly wondering if I can start a business “de-smarting” things. I had this idea a couple years ago when I was hardware disabling the microphone in my Comcast remote. I think the average consumer is realizing how much they are being tracked and do not like it. Enough that they would pay for solutions. The VPN market is massive.

Lol, “highly accurate”. I get constant political texts, but they have the wrong number. Its fun replying, just sending goatse has gotten boring so its forcing me to be more creative. I’ll never text “STOP”, wasting political resources gives me the warm fuzzies inside.

Oh dang, nice. Simple and sweet. Thanks.

Yes, that is exactly what you should do. Remove the antenna.

Let me know if you start working on anything. I want to try to use greasemonkey, I haven’t in years.

Just start listing the most popular and generic sites. Then Google a topic like technology and copy whatever those sites are. I imagine you could have a pretty decent list populated in 15 minutes. You could also just ask chatgpt to create lists of the top 100 sites for “x”.

What would write in? I might be willing to help because this interests me as well.

It’d be pretty quick to write a script that loads a randomly selected url from a prepopulated list at random intervals. Could probably do it in grease monkey directly in Firefox so you could use other tools in addition like adnausium and a client spoofer.

This doesn’t apply to foreign service providers, right? Since they’re not subject to U.S. laws? I thought most private individuals try to get VPN service outside the U.S. anyways to reduce the likelihood of the U.S. government finding out what was being done over VPN.

Felony for purchasing unregulated services outside of the US. This is a slippery slope argument, but your VPN service in whatever country will be deemed as funding terrorism because they aren’t federally regulated. These laws already exist, they just waited to be applied to the political dissonants that don’t agree with the two party oligarchy.

Nope. They’ll keep burning through the 9,999,999,999 phone numbers from outside the US but you’ll get indicted for a felony for purchasing VPN services outside of US regulations.

I believe theyre linking Metadata. Regardless of my VPN, the ads that slip through are clearly all linked between device’s so it’s my belief that they’re gathering and tracking data to link sources based on hardware info. I use randomized MAC, client spoofers, VPN, adblock dns, everything, and they’re still able to link my devices based on hardware data.

I know, Meshtastic is almost entirely built on esp32 devices. Where is the community for this ecosystem? If there isn’t one on a widely federated instance there should be.

Use an old android phone with whatever os you want. Even if you keep the oem os you can load whatever FOSS/ privacy apps you want. I like having a keyboard and mouse, revanced/newpipe, VLC for local files, jellyfin for networked, Firefox with ad block, etc. I need to see how gaming is through steam link.

The data broker deletion services all advertise deleting your info from 2-300 agents. Who the fuck are the other several thousand, what are they doing with the data, and how the fuck is any of this legal.