The only options when dealing with governments is comply or get out.

Depends on how the project and how long they have been around.

At least I don’t need to pay for freeware. Last I checked, the cost of Windows was included in my laptop and I didn’t get the option to not install an OS even though I fully intended to install Linux on it.

Wouldn’t call that a “summary”, but interesting read all the same. Thanks for the link.

I’m so fed up that I’m about to go all in on linux smartphones as long as phone, sms and data work. Everything else. Guess I don’t need it. To my knowledge those things do work. I just need to see how solid they are.

Seems like they are making a big deal out of nothing. This isn’t one of those instances where a false sense of security is being presented. If whatever tool that the user is using to test their ad blocking capabilities isn’t adequate. They will very quickly figure that out when they still get ads. How does any of this result in “Doing more harm than good”?

i didn’t have to configure it to do anything. paired the devices manually like normal while being on different networks. syncthing figures out the rest.

Syncthing does work across the internet. It uses nat hole punching to achieve this. Unless your network is behind cgnat / double nat I believe. Me and my buddies use it all the time.

For across the web I use syncthing.

Again the type of people who probably visit communities like this know that. If the profile is accurate and they know that these people are more resistant to these kinds of tactics. Isn’t just a waste of money to bid on showing that person an ad in the first place. I personally don’t even connect my tv to the internet and I run linux, so I doubt either of said devices are talking to anything. Ads outside that someone play your favorite song would need to build a profile on you on your digital devices and then somehow correlate that to you the individual when you go into stores.

I know you said you don’t think are all the way there, but without getting facial recognition involved. I don’t see how they would correlate the two in the first place. Even then there are still holes, but that is besides the point. My main point is that someone whom meets the criteria that I described in my first comment seems like a waste on money to advertise to if you are one of the advertisers who are bidding on these spots.

Why is it that if they have this information and build these supposedly accurate profiles about you that they would still be willing to show ads at all to the kind of people who are likely to frequent this community? For example, if someone who runs linux, adblockers, firefox with strict profile, etc, etc is being broadcast to these advertisers. Why would they want to bid for advertising space for that person at all?

• Phone numbers
• social security numbers

Stop making personal information into digital ids because when it inevitably ends up in some kind of data breach. These companies all throw their hands up saying sucks to be you.

Honestly, I don’t even believe these articles. At some point it just starts to sound like they are making things up.

Which is just as good in my opinion if I am understanding the situation correctly.

Exactly. Another example of people who are on forums like this are worlds apart from people who know quite literally less than nothing about computers.

And nothing of value was lost.

Wish I could still use privacy.com, but they won’t let me connect through debit card anymore and I’m not using Plaid. Seems like plenty of others have had this issue as well.

All too often it is a downgrade though. A lot of those webapps have terrible search and I only want to search for what is on the current page anyways. For example reddit search has been notoriously bad for a long time. Half the forums online seem to be using the exact same open source software with the exact same terrible search. When all too often I just want to find what is on the current page anyways.

Browsers shouldn’t allow half of the stuff that they allow. You have to do the same thing not just with copy and paste, but also searching on the page with ctrl + f. Like I don’t care that websites won’t to create their own experience. Don’t mess with browser behavior.

I have people whom I still need to explain copy and paste to on a regular basis. Trust me, I understand.