The Oxford comma is the most wonderful, amazing, and incredible comma there is. I use it too!

Like, because that would be too lenient of a punishment? Is that why? Should we amp it up a bit then?

If you only interact with Aurora Store via Tor and don’t use Play Services to prevent potential IPC data leaks and block network of apps with firebase analytics then it helps a decent chunk more.

Of course we can go down the rabbit hole of privacy 'till whatever point suits us. If somebody is determined to use Aurora or is going to use Google in some way or another, then they’re gonna use it.

I don’t see a negative aspect to throwing Tor in the mix at the very least.

If you know there’s a better solution (there is), then you’re probably not the target audience for the post. I mean that in a nice way, I hate Google with a fiery passion too.

Yeah, the result was weird to me too. I’ve been meaning to message the devs to get a concrete answer but I’ve been lazy.

All the rest read, acknowledged and agreed.

(for anyone reading this in the spooky future, we’re mainly discussing browser fingerprinting and other privacy technologies. Context matters, buckos)

That is handy! F-Droid is the best

Must be entry and exit node dependant then, or perhaps you got a newly designated IP. I’m shocked that Google isn’t nearly immediately blocking the comprehensive list.

I pretty much fully agree, and if the GrapheneOS community in particular is pointing to a mirror site and saying “this one is fine if you’re gonna use one”, then I’m likely to worry much less about injected malware. But you’ve always gotta worry about Google and their team of evil doers.

Many use APK Pure as far as I’m aware.

Almost certainly yes.

Fabricating ID is what is going to be illegal in literally any country, though if you fabricated the ID type of another country, your home country may or may not consider this illegal.

Bypassing biometric scan will be illegal in the jurisdiction that the law is enforced if its done with the purposes of bypassing a national law.

Depending on how archaic your legal system is, it may even be prosecutable if only because you violated the policy of a business in your same nation.

Because we live in a dystopian hell hole you’ll also need to at least consider legal alliances between countries or organizations such as Interpol.

This is all a bit of a mix of what the proposed laws are looking like, and some cautious approximation, and some good ol’ sense.

I’m going to do it anyway if I need to use a service that requires it, even if it breaks local laws.

Using a trusted VPN (Mullvad for instance) alongside fake credentials would better protect you but your games are also tied to your personal accounts unless you’ve created new ones on a VPN (or Tor).

You would then need to ensure you never log into that account without the VPN, and should use an OS without overreaching telemetry, and use a single-use burner email always with VPN and a payment method not traceable to you such as a prepaid card or gift card purchased in a place without clear cameras and with cash that’s been shuffled around a little bit, rather than from your bank.

And even still, I’m missing a ton of other identifying factors, and nothing is guaranteed, and many Tor nodes are compromised, and VPN laws could change and buildings could be raided and even with no logs in theory your data could be extracted from frozen RAM.

Basically what I’m saying is if you want to hide from the law, you’d better do it right. Or you’d better do it to stand by your principles, knowing the risk. Or you’d better comply - that last one is what they want you to do. OR… you never interact with any service that requires these systems, because that’s the only way to kill them before they become even worse.

Enjoy the gaming!

Surprisingly enough when using the Origin build of brave I saw no measurable difference in fingerprinting artifacts after reviewing the list from EFF’s Cover Your Tracks and browserleaks.com

Your point about the Origin build reducing privacy via a smaller user pool was a huge concern for me, so those findings were a relief.

Also yes, many will toggle settings such as ‘Ask not to track’ (forget the exact label), to on, or adding identifying, uncommon, and regional extensions (kinda any third party ones tbh) - believing that they’re increasing their privacy but unfortunately, significantly increasing chances of successful fingerprinting.

I don’t blame people, it’s such a cluster fuck and the wisdom of old has drastically changed.

This is a much more concise and probably more effective way to explain a good chunk of what I wrote out.

I’m the real Jane Doe, now go ahead and find out everything about me.

There are a very small number of people that I would consider to have a true, platonic soulmate connection with. And I feel lucky to even have that. Those are the friends where you’re not expected to act any certain way, because no matter the circumstance or time passed, the next time you meet up its as if no time even passed.

God I feel really fucking lucky to have that, but I’m still hollow.

Also, what kind of cult do you want to lead if you’re hired?

You know how people have been doing those horrible crimes where they destroy datacentres?

I hope people don’t realize the same thing can be done to places like Google’s offices. But if they do, I also hope they’d be responsible enough to make sure no low/mid level employees were in the building. I bet, and this is just too sad, that the executives would be the prime targets 😔

That would be tragic. Super duper tragic.

So tragic.

Tragic.

How strict are we on the Lemmy.world instance in terms of what we can say?

Because I’m gonna express what I’m thinking in one way or another, it’s just a matter of how bluntly I can say it on a regular basis.

It certainly is. If you wanna feel like you’ve rewound 10 years in the past, you gotta pony up. And even still everything feels wrong.

But in the interim, before the bubble pops, I do see the value in having no AI as a feature, especially when the immediate alternative is “go fuck yourself”.

One payment for actual slop removal, priced by devs properly to allow them somewhat equivalent revenue compared to if you were being data harvested - that’s basically the only good way to do it if we’re gonna do it.

No micro transactions and no double or triple or quadruple or quintuple or sextuple dipping on larger payments either.

When did everything become a fever dream?

It’s pretty educational actually, it goes into the history of the game and explains how there’s actually a competitive element to it and honestly it’s cool to see a big group of all ages get together and play a silly game for a bit

You’re a mind reader. And Tom Scott is some weird elevator guy.

Somebody smarter than I will definitely delve into the guts of incoming Chinese EVs and figure out what part(s) to strip to stop this…

And if you’re in America and you have an EV, it’s statistically likely to be a Tesla. Tesla has starlink compatibility baked into their cars too and you’d better believe that sweet juicy data is being shared around.

If I was stuck with a Tesla against my will, I’d at least try the same thing for it, too.

Better yet, make sure to keep the gas tank filled at all times and the AC cranked to max so you can enjoy your drink cold, and it will last longer!

If you have an old car with loads of freon in it, you may even be able to make slushies!