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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • well your activity can still be tracked and eventually associated to your other internet activities.

    • your online times can be correlated with your other accounts and software you use on the same device
    • browsing behavioral patterns
    • a combination of tracking mouse movement, clicking and typing can be used to create a very unique fingerprint
    • VPN’s are not really “anonymous”. you just trust some random company to not sell you out

    but realistically nobody has any interest in what random facebook groups you join as long as its nothing legally complicated. so the questions is do you want to prevent your friends and family from seeing what you are doing, or do you want to do stuff that could get you in jail? if its the former then a separate account is sufficient. if its the latter then you should do a lot of reading.






  • I agree not everything is black and white with this stuff, but good deeds do not absolve you from your bad ones. As we are currently seeing, Chromium being open source doesnt prevent Chrome from being changed in ways that is not in the interest of the users.

    Also while they do release many things as open source, the software that people end up using in the end (Chrome, Maps, etc) are not open source at all, which just further solidifies their market dominance because people cant accept even giving up one little feature in favor of a different app, service, website.

    Also comparing two big tech companies for their supposed upsides and downsides is pointless. They both suck and we should reduce our dependence on all of them.