I get it, it’s hard to afford therapy when the system doesn’t want you to get better

Maybe, maybe not. Google knows how to manipulate the standards used on the web. My comment wasn’t really an assertion of fact as much as a dream of Google and their scummy practices dying

It was a hypothetical question posed to the readers haha

But that’s a super polite way of rejecting somebody, so props for that 😂

Never browsing the internet again is the real secret to happiness. It’s about a stone’s throw away for many of us who care deeply about it.

As with so many problems of the modern internet, the problem often comes down to Google’s greasy balls leaving stains in every nook and cranny of the web.

We’re kinda stuck between a rock and a hard place in terms of fingerprinting, at least for now.

I was typing out my explanation but I started writing too much and I suppose if you’re interested in the technical details you can Google it look it up.

As with all this stuff, it’s a bottomless pit. Are you sure you really wanna jump in?

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.

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.

Ok, and that’s a well-thought out and respectable position. I wish you shared that level of insight from the start, but thank you. In principle I very much agree with you, actually.

And I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your political activities (which includes your online comments and advocacy) are quite literally in that same paragraph lol

I do advocate for them. Not that I am obligated to prove it to you on any way, but here’s a link of me commenting on on Lemmy 8 months ago, in direct relation to First Nations peoples.

You can’t build good faith with people when you don’t give good faith arguments. Perhaps it’s worth contemplating if you’re really trying to change something in the world, or if you’re just frustrated and venting on the internet.

Either is fine, but let’s be honest with ourselves. Your comments lead me to believe you may be in the latter group.

It can be hard to discern facts from opinions nowadays because as you noted, so many people assert their opinions as fact. Especially online, and especially on modern social media.

It helps to find people and developers and communities that you trust, and compare their knowledge with whatever else you hear or read. This way, you might just be able to roam around just a little more peacefully knowing that you are secure in your understanding.

There’s a lot of noise on the internet, and much of it is unfortunately not worth engaging with.

Fight for what you believe in. I would be a hypocrite to tell you otherwise. I’m just saying, you’re not likely to win any support for a cause if you aren’t able to show people that they’ll be more accepted within a new system.

It’s fine to disagree on semantics or ideology but you need the people who are fed-up to be on your side if you want the numbers to create any sort of viable movement.

I get it, it’s frustrating, it’s slow, there’s infighting. It’s not to say your approach is wrong, just that the environment we were thrust into requires quite a bit more tolerance and understanding of those outside of your ideology, that is, if you want to do something more than argue with each other.

Use what you wanna use my man, but turning browsers into the equivalent of the ‘console wars’ that people get swept up in is a bit silly.

At the very least let me know why you think Firefox gargles balls in a bit more detail and how Brave by comparison refuses to gargle.

That would be a bit more insightful for us all!

I use Synology Drive for much of my stuff which backs up to my (really old) NAS. I also use cryptomator for some things. I also do a lot of manual backups because I made the habit and some things just aren’t easy or necessary to automate.

For the record, I know Synology sucks but I bought this NAS before they started pulling that BS about third party drives and removing codecs etc. I keep the NAS offline, tailscale only (sorry not doing Headscale). And for anyone in the same boat about the codecs, there’s a Github project I helped a tiny bit on which patches back in the old codecs and prevents synology from updating over it. If you want the link lemme know!

Edit: while I’m on the tangent of Synology I want to add that somebody came up with a script to activate many of the features which require device registration. All of it can be done offline and with no external scripts. Here it is!