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How do you control privacy and tracking on the internet?
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You will be imprisoned for contributing your time and skill to a bank robbery.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday June 15, @05:03PM (7 children)
I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and of course disable JS whenever I can. For some sites JS is essential (e.g. FlightRadar24 etc).
[nostyle RIP 06 May 2025]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 15, @06:56PM (3 children)
> I use uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger, and of course disable JS whenever I can. For some sites JS is essential (e.g. FlightRadar24 etc).
Same here. But also I use Old Opera, mostly with JS off, and for many sites, Vivaldi, which has very strong built-in tracker and ad blocking. I highly recommend it. It's based on chrome code, so it can run most if not all chrome extensions, so I have uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger installed.
In the past I've used many other blockers too.
BTW YouTube won't play unless I disable one or both aforementioned extensions.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 15, @10:33PM (1 child)
> unless I disable one or both aforementioned extensions.
Oh! You've identified the best way to tell if a site is malicious! Yeah, when I get that, up to the tab bar, click the X.
Adblockers, on today's internet, re absolutely mandatory. They should be enforced company IT policy, as well. Site doesn't work with an adblocker turned on? Oh well, guess the site should stop being malicious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @02:59AM
I agree, but unfortunately sometimes it's a necessary site. I'm much more concerned about trackers, and the continuing developments in clever and evilness in that world.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22, @03:58AM
Change the youtube.com/watch?v=abc123 to youtube.com/embed/abc123.
It stopped working at all for a while, but I think it broke too many sites, and it now works again.
(Score: 2) by zocalo on Monday June 16, @06:55AM
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
(Score: 4, Interesting) by GlennC on Monday June 16, @06:15PM
I do the same on Firefox. I use NoScript to block JS and temporarily trust sites as necessary
Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varied than you want it to be. Deal with it.
(Score: 1) by arubaro on Wednesday June 18, @09:09AM
ublock, umatrixm, privacy badger, no script, https
no vpn though
if a site does not want to open, unless i must enter it yes or yes, what a pity let s go to another one.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 15, @10:33PM
None of these will avail, for janrinok will track you, and you will be punished. Even if you are not aristarchus.
(Score: 2) by Snotnose on Monday June 16, @12:09AM (8 children)
I have a VPN, ubock origin, ghostery, firefox. Ain't nobody getting to me until someone clicks an ad.
Of course I'm against DEI. Donald, Eric, and Ivanka.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @03:01AM (7 children)
Make sure your VPN isn't one of these: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/12/1731258/more-than-a-dozen-vpn-apps-have-undisclosed-ties-to-china [slashdot.org]
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @04:26AM (5 children)
Where is the link to the list of VPns with undisclosed links to aristarchus? We know for a fact that janrinok has one!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @10:27AM (4 children)
Evidently, this post is from one! Hope they don't realize that I use an IP only slightly used before by an AC! Oh, the Whorrors!!!
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @07:16PM (3 children)
Arg!!! They GOT me! Not many virgin IPv4 addresses left, anymore.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17, @01:02AM (2 children)
I was assured that this IP addy was only used by a little old lady, to log in to church on Sundays.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19, @03:44AM (1 child)
Why is the parent spam modded? In point of fact, why are so many on-topic comments spam-modded?
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19, @08:39PM
Are all spam-modded comment on the secret IP list? Can anyone reveal this? SN Whistleblowers?
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 25, @02:32PM
I've never heard of any of those apps: (Your link lead me to another story that lead to this story with the actual list.) https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/spot-check-apple-and-google-still-have-a-chinese-vpn-problem [techtransparencyproject.org]
Apple + Google Play Stores are chock full of junk. News at 11.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 16, @09:43PM
On Seamonkey of course. There is no better, anywhere, there never was.
But the big problem is that the script/ad blockers are detectable. That has to change. The ad should be fed to a null device (somewhere in the "cloud", without using my bandwidth), not just blocked.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17, @06:57AM
Can't believe this option was missing.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Tuesday June 17, @01:32PM (1 child)
I use uBlock Origin, uMatrix, Firefox built-ins, and Port Authority [mozilla.org] ("Blocks malicious websites from port-scanning your computer/network and dynamically blocks all LexisNexis endpoints from running their invasive data collection scripts.") - interesting when that popup fires and tells me someone tries to scan me - not always the sites you expect.
I use multiple Firefox profiles for different things, and I've made some changes to my Firefox default profile that mean that, for example, images don't display on the The Guardian website, but show up fine when I run the 'minimal' profile - I have yet to debug that.
I certainly don't think I'm anonymous, but I try to restrict the running of scripts to the minimum necessary (a lot of uMatrix clicking and page reloading needed), and not save cookies. Payment processors linking off left, right, and centre are a real challenge, as I sometimes have to retry a payment 4 or 5 times before I have identified all the necessary scripts/domains needed to actually get my card information accepted and processed. I've been locked out for too many attempts a couple of times.
If I were to use a VPN provider, it would likely be Mullvad.
Given all the nefarious ways sites try to assign a persistent ID, I'm probably being tracked in multiple ways I'm not aware of.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 17, @11:04PM
FWIW, uBlock Origin also blocks most web attempts to local hosts if you select the "Block Outsider Intrusion into LAN" filter list. Not sure how much that overlaps with Port Authority. After a quick look, each seem to cover things missing by the other but I'm not 100% sure on that.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 19, @09:45PM
But I have ublock and noscript too
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 20, @09:12PM
Front page points out that alzheimer's medicine in Britland is too expensive and has little benefits, so janrinok will remain untreated. Or is he under the more sensible French public medicine regime? Where they recognize that treating the dotards is hopeless, and cruel. (Cf. Gerard
ButlerDippydoo.)(Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday June 23, @11:12AM
Other: Vivaldi built-in ad blocker and Vivaldi built-in Proton VPN
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 24, @06:21AM
Provide lots of fake info. Fill up forms with plausible and random fake data. Poison the well.
The more people/stuff providing fake data, the worse for those trying to use/misuse the data.
See also: https://www.vice.com/en/article/firefox-will-give-you-a-fake-browsing-history-to-fool-advertisers/ [vice.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 24, @09:30PM
Day of the dalek said that he is locking up his journal, from no on, to protect it from comments by soylentils that disagree with him. This is sad. But not unexpected. Can no one see that strategy is to get SN to further lock down and lose members, until it ceases to exist? DOTdalek is playing into the hands of those who want to destroy us.
[Oh, he also said that someone would post here to complain. I am not that person, and this is not that complaint. Carry on. ]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday June 25, @02:26PM
Firefox + uBlock Origin (All the time), VPN (Sometimes). Going without an adblocker is just plain dumb. Even the FBI was like, yeah, don't go without an adblocker. Apparently there's a lot of money in ripping off suckers.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"