I didn't know Google was becoming more evil, thanks for sharing the news! EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a tool people can use to try to measure how much data are shared and what's the fingerprint of their browser. It's called Cover you tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org/ There you can read more about fingerprinting and they also point you to some tools like Tor Browser, Privacy Badger, NoScript, resistFingerprint setting in Firefox and more
We should follow legal procedures to help the most people in the long term. This is surely in breach of the spirit, if not the letter, of the law: right to be forgotten, etc.
Those in authority need to understand what they're doing and why it's a problem, otherwise they'll happily spy on 99% of the population who don't know how to avoid it
@katzenberger Who even gives a shit about this, their alt text reads "screenshot of yesterdays toot", sounds like an account that's not worth more than a mute for not even trying to be accessible.
Stop using all Google services and apps. Use adblocking and network filtering to block Google's junk at connection level. It's the only way. There will still be some garbage like their CDNs, fonts and other crap webpages embed, but most can be blocked with filtering. Google is everywhere so getting rid of it entirely isn't realistic even if you drop all their services and apps.
Hang on, where does Google say that they've officially loosened restrictions on digital fingerprinting? Your source doesn't mention anything of the sort: support.google.com/platformspo…
Boycott sites that use Recaptcha, which is the core of how Google fingerprint the worlds devices, except you can't do it completely because a lot of essential services still use their scripts.
Vincent
in reply to Tuta • • •Damtux (Mastodon)
in reply to Tuta • • •EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has a tool people can use to try to measure how much data are shared and what's the fingerprint of their browser.
It's called Cover you tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org/
There you can read more about fingerprinting and they also point you to some tools like Tor Browser, Privacy Badger, NoScript, resistFingerprint setting in Firefox and more
Cover Your Tracks
coveryourtracks.eff.orgTrantion
in reply to Tuta • • •We should follow legal procedures to help the most people in the long term. This is surely in breach of the spirit, if not the letter, of the law: right to be forgotten, etc.
Those in authority need to understand what they're doing and why it's a problem, otherwise they'll happily spy on 99% of the population who don't know how to avoid it
Reexamine8875
in reply to Tuta • • •Might sound dumb, but just use the internet if it is really necessary.
When using the internet, just use Tor!
katzenberger 🇺🇦
in reply to Tuta • • •D.Hamlin.Music
in reply to katzenberger 🇺🇦 • • •Tuta
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Amin Hollon 🏳
in reply to Tuta • • •For future reference, would probably be just as easy (and more accessible) to simply copy/paste the content of the referenced toot as the alt text.
(Also, Mastodon does allow editing alt text, so there's nothing stopping you from updating this one! 😄)
Tuta
in reply to Amin Hollon 🏳 • • •Tuta
in reply to katzenberger 🇺🇦 • • •Justin Macleod
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in reply to Justin Macleod • • •RejZoR
in reply to Tuta • • •BananaCocoYuck
in reply to Tuta • • •Steve Gibson has excellent information on fingerprinting.
grc.com/fingerprints.htm
GRC | SSL TLS HTTPS Web Server Certificate Fingerprints
www.grc.comtidbit
in reply to Tuta • • •Merospit
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