The most trafficked animal in the world. Protect these little guys.

These are the best people on earth.

That’s nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn’t work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.

“We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”

Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet

Selena - No Me Queda Más

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Eminem - Headlights

GnR - November Rain

Freeing 2 million dogs? Don’t threaten me with a good time…

Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.

What type of link was it?

Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it’s using regex.

For some people it’s easy, for others it isn’t, and/or they’re afraid of messing it up.

This is the secondary reason why I created SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS installation service that kicks back a percentage of every order to the GrapheneOS nonprofit to keep it funded.

Primary reason was to keep GrapheneOS alive and funded.

Indeed, not all UTM tracking parameters are harmful. For example, you could have parameters like ?src=email&campaign=summer2023 that would denote how users engaged with the URL, without necessarily identifying them.

Many platforms, however, will try to identify you and collect as much as possible.

Not familiar with ScriptSafe—wonder if anyone here can confirm it’s necessary if you’re already using uBlock Origin. I would err on the side of “no,” but you never know.

A few years ago, I came across a tool that did exactly this. It might’ve been a browser extension… When you clicked a link that had trackers, rather than providing a clean URL, it sent incorrect/invalid parameters to the tracking link.

Not to my knowledge. It’s absolutely pathetic and honestly kinda psychotic that you’re not allowed to understand your own genealogy and medical history without giving up pretty much everything about yourself. Forever.

Because unlike a compromised password, you can’t just hop on the computer and change your genes (yet??).

Boils down to a legislative failure.

In high school, I wrote a play for my creative writing class where I named the main character Jrue—named after Jrue Holiday, one of my favorite basketball players.

I remember the teacher got a kick out of it.

Well, dam

I got someone to use Signal recently, because I don’t text outside of it. Last week, she asked me why that is. I sent this Bruce Schneier essay on the eternal value of privacy to someone who knows absolutely nothing about tech, and she understood.

I’m gonna try it again next time it comes up with someone else. I think this essay does a really good job of putting it into perspective, so I’m hoping this is the silver bullet I can continue to send when someone asks.

Overall, in general, I try to keep it in real world terms. Why do you close the door when you go to the bathroom? Why do you lock your doors? Why do you have curtains/blinds? etc., along with what some other intelligent people responded here.

Last Week Tonight recently did an episode on this.

Album covers that go hard?

Pixel with GrapheneOS.

Started using it last year and enjoyed it so much that a few weeks ago I started a GrapheneOS installation service called SwapMyOS.

I created it to keep GrapheneOS funded and running. (I kick back a percentage of revenue to the nonprofit.)

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