SamsonSeinfelder @ SamsonSeinfelder @feddit.de

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My uBlock Origin blocked a request of iyfbodn.com when I go to dhlsucks.com. Fishy?

[generic comment about how the solvent in dry erase board marker can erase permanent marker on dry erase boards]

If you take air from the outside, with a high enough temperature difference to your room temperature, be aware of condensation problems.

Native iOS auth/OTP Integration in passwords. No need for an additional app. It’s backed up in iCloud via keychain.

The best time to switch to Firefox was 5 years ago. The second best is today.

There is a OTP mechanism natively build into iOS that is backing up with your standard keychain to iCloud. No need for an external app actually. Just go to passwords and look up your service and if you have set it up correctly you will get your OTP from there.

Can you provide a ranking where you would say these states would come out top? What kind of metric would you like to see being used?

Dont take this the wrong way, but this data is from 2010. It is 13 years old. The iPhone came out in 2007. Android in 2008. The internet and tracking advanced MASSIVELY since then. Google announced in 2020 that they no longer will support 3d party cookies in their own Chrome Browser. You can be sure, that they have advanced their system to a equally/more advanced system that they were doing this step. Allegedly based on advanced Fingerprints. And yes, an IP is still one parameter in tracking. But its not the only datapoint anymore since many years.

Not really. You have to use browsers that are feature-poor (then again, that makes you ironically again very identifiable). You could use command line browsers that do not leak agents or fonts or stuff like that. Again: Makes you more sus to the ad networks. The best thing - as far as I read about it - is to be a chameleon. Have garbage data that is plausible but vague enough to always stay in a big group of possible profiles. Looks as much as possible like the biggest group of people so you can blend in with the mass, while not raise suspicious behavior. And that continue sly with every request you make to every mainstream website you make. You can see how this is hard enough already. I think there are people out there that might can give you a better answer than me. I try to block as much as possible wherever I go via uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole. But this is only a thin veil. In the end, they have me in their database already since years. But as long as I do not see the actual ad, I hope that I get ranked very low in the bidding process as they must know that I do not see/click those. The average instagram user without a adblocker is much more interesting for them.

There is a lot out there. You could just start by the wiki entry and then go down the rabbit hole from there. I already linked to browserleaks, that lets you test all the vectors in their uniqueness on your machine. The thing is, that the companies that use those technologies not wish to show their hand, you know. Those things are hidden from the public eye and until now have not leaked in whole. The ad-industry is heavily using those techniques to auction off your page views to the highest bidder. You ever noticed when you go on a website and it takes the ads a second or two to load? That is the time frame where your fingerprint was determined and connected to a profile and then is offered to the ad-services "I have a male, white, mid-30, high income, from new york, looking for past interests [a,b,c], .... " and then ad-systems bid against each other to get the spot as they betting on being able to lure you in with their offer and will bet on their chance of converting their bid into a sell of a product. That all has nothing do to with just an IP. This goes waaay beyond that. Just google for this topic or "Fingerprint Analysis" in detail and you can find a lot of stuff. Check out the privacy boards of lemmy to find out more and how to protect yourself - if possible at all.

I think Meta has very complex fingerprint service in their backend after all these years. They know what you are doing even when you are not using their service. Their tracking in bundled up in long chains of tracking services over many websites. As long as you use a non vanilla browser to access their service, they might have you in their database from a previous tracker that trapped you on one of the many websites that are selling/trading tracking fingerprints. Since a decade it is not about the IP anymore. You can data-triangulate personas and pinpoint them to an existing user-profile with a very high accuracy. It should be possible to visit the threads service with a VPN and a heavy neutered browser. But then again, if your request is to suspicious in its request (thinking tor-browser, command-line browser, etc.) they might put you as well on a detour for a captcha/recognizer that will look harmless in the fronted ("click all the cars!") but its actual task is processing/scraping a fingerprint from your display-device (browser) that then again can be connected with this suspicious request for the future. I am sure that their VPN block is not 100% blocking Europeans, but will block most of the unsophisticated request from normal users that will just give up after some tries.

Here are some vectors for identifying users (via browserleaks): IP, JavaScript, WebRTC, Canvas, WebGL, Installed Fonts, Geolocation, Feature Detection, SSL certs, content filter.

Edit: I might get some downvotes for this, but iOS has some good protections build into their OS layer (so they say) to make it harder for advertisers to track you. See also this very well done 1 Minute ad showcasing how the modern internet ad industry works.

So you expect others to create these spaces an will only join them when they have enough users? Hen? egg?

I also found this early discussion helpfull

Solution

Introduce a special format for instance agnostic links (called Lemmy links) that will be opened in the current instance:

        for posts: #1@lemmy.world
    for users: @ruud@lemmy.world
    for communities: !asklemmy@lemmy.ml

  

for comments: ~1@lemmy.world

This will open page at https://

<instance>

/post/1, https://lemmy.world/u/ruud, https://lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml, https://lemmy.world/comment/1 respectively. It will not break existing links functionality as direct HTTP links are still supported.

Bookmark the resource link (or mark this comment as saved on lemmy) for future reference

All good. Don't waste to much time on it. I think it was only me, as I do not see anyone else mentioning it. :D

I see, yes, you are right. The server address field is empty. Problem is that i can not tap into the server address field to get a keyboard and retype it. None of the input field trigger a keyboard. When restarting the app and retrying it multiple times, I had luck to get 1/10 times a input cursor blinking in the username field, but still no keyboard is coming up.

I think the best at this moment would be to uninstall the app, reinstall it and hoping it has not remembered anything. I will try that now....

Edit: That worked. I got the onboarding screen and just started over. I'm back. Thank you!

mobile

meaning Android, no iOS

From their own FAQ:

Will there be an iOS version?

No.

Imagine telling people you love america so much, that you fully support the ideals of an autocratic suppressive foreign regime.... AND PEOPLE BUY IT. Republicans are bringing this country down by the help of useful idiots - on the stage and in the seats.

Maybe because we "care for each others" opinions. The weird thing about converting instagram users automatically to thread users is, that instagram is mostly a one-to-many communication. One Insta Model posting her newest picture and then thousand others comment and like it. Thread (and Lemmy) are more back and forth and commenting on comments. That means we have an active dialogue where things are discussed in a more natural way. The Insta model does not give a shit about a bi-directional communication with their followers. They prefer a mostly one way communication of send and receive (like or die). They don't really care for their followers opinions and certainly are not interested in a deeper dialogue with them. They want to expand their reach and likes first of all. Threads is very different in the interaction than instagram.

+1 for Memmy. Love it -> !memmy@lemmy.ml

Intimidated by Arch? Try Manjaro. It's Arch based. I have it running as my Desktop (x86) and on my RPi (Arm)