The way I would look at it is:
- If you aren’t sure you can trust your computer, you should probably cover your webcam.
- Your level of risk tolerance can vary, so what a person would consider trustworthy may differ from person to person. (For some, maybe any proprietary software makes the computer untrustworthy. For others, maybe they feel smart enough to make good decisions about what software is trustworthy and they just don’t download anything that sets off their spidey sense. Or whatever.)
- If you’re taking extreme measures to ensure your machine is trustworthy, you’re probably going much further out of your way than covering your webcam anyway. If you’ve picked a lot of the higher branches clean anyway, you probably ought to go ahead and pick that remaining low-hanging fruit.
- Regarding Windows specifically, some would probably call Windows systems less trustworthy on some combination of that a) Microsoft is assholes that might themselves use webcam data in evil ways and/or b) Windows is more targeted by crackers and malware.
It appears you’re correct. TIL and thank you.
That’s a pro-cryptocurrency source. Scanning down the page, the first result from a source I recognize is an article called “Bitcoin Is A Cryptocurrency, But Is It Money?” from Forbes. It doesn’t directly answer the question my search term asked, but it does say “Economists say that money performs three functions. … Does Bitcoin do any or all these things? In brief, no.”
Assuming everything you’re saying is true, the reason the honeypot existed in the first place is because incel communities often tend to spawn domestic terrorists.
If you’re looking for any kind of sympathy, even if only enough to get folks to give you useful advice, “I’m an incel and my incel activities got me on a government watchlist” is about as likely to get you sympathy as “I’m a nazi and my nazi activities got me on a government watchlist.”
My recommendation: get therapy.
Unfortunately, I can’t argue with much of that. In fact, if anything, you’re leaving out complexities.
There are a few browsers out there that use WebKit but none of Chromium. (Surf and Uzbl are a couple that I’ve used in the past.) With a little scripting, you could get them to, for instance, run two different “profiles” with different cookie stores at the same time. But they’re far from full-featured.
Maybe what we really need is to scrap the web and start fresh with something better.
I haven’t seen the video yet, but I very much believe what we really need is something better than either Firefox or 10 different flavors of Chromium.
Something that gives way more control over how it handles cookies. Something that lets you run multiple profiles at the same time. Something that lets you seamlessly switch identities.
Maybe something that’ll give you a whole different cookie store every time you change domains.
Generally, I’d recommend F-Droid as a best first place to go for app recommendations if you’re interested in privacy and such. The vast majority of software there will be ridiculously in line with your privacy wishes, and the ones that have minor caveats will be explicitly marked as such. And its search interface is very decent.