Yo mama be screaming for you to get off the damn inter net while she’s on the phone with aunt Heidi, so it’ll it never reach attempt 5.

Do not tell yo mama that technically you never managed to get on to the “inter net”. Trust me on this one.

I did exactly this a while back. And as a self protection mechanism I’ve just completely written off Mozilla products as free falling in the enshittification process. I don’t care enough to be disappointed any more, it’s much nicer this way.

Having no call audio on FP5 is a dealbreaker to me, but if it’s only 4g/5g calls and BT audio and mic works I’ll gladly use IP comms only. Need to dive a bit deeper I suppose, and the incentive will come from Google.

Well some thing is going to change no matter your struggles. :(

Doesn’t matter, it’ll all be scooped up, dried up and eaten as snack eventually.

Let me install some software on your devices and I’ll show you how to track searches without operating a search engine.

Oh dang I didn’t know

I like Iceraven.

What? I get de-censored cosmic horror RP LLM’s telling me I’m off the deep end.

I will never have anything to do with any nation that under ANY circumstance demand to be the sole source of truth.

There’s a whole world out there and you pick NZ?!

I’ve still to find any geo-restriction on AUS and NZ sites from Bahamas and considering how AUS and NZ have acted on average the last five years, I’m not browsing the internet from either even if on an anon VPN.

I do understand their reasons, yet the majority of lemmy.world is shitposting assholes so there’s some flaws somewhere…

My VPN provider has no legal obligation to work directly with my national law enforcement and if there’s an international warrant for my internet traffic, there’s no logs.

I don’t want ANYBODY knowing what I do on the interwebs even if it’s just personal stuff not a james bond villain crime webring.

And TOR over VPN is so standard several VPN providers have TOR exit nodes, though that negates a lot of the no-trust chain of TOR.

Maybe I’m missing something but when she welcomed me to the world of automated licence plate registration, it’s old news to me. These systems have been implemented across the world on local levels for decades, I have no doubt there’s illegal data retrieval from these systems by law enforcement and intel agencies.

What even is “Parallel construction”?

Not to mention GPS built into newer cars, accessing the mobile network where every single cell allows for triangulation. And personal phones. And facial recognition. And door cameraes. And so on.

This battle was lost 20 years ago, regular people are just too demoralized to care if it’s done out in the open now. As always, the best time to adapt was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Send a ‘smart’ fine. Check mate, shitposters.

Every single browser sync solution requires some sort of storage at the company, something to keep in mind when it comes to privacy.

Yes, FF fanbois, even self-hosted Firefox sync server needs the Mozilla account verification server and it’s ridiculously difficult to set it up compared to just self-hosting the data storage component.

Why? Principle or practicality?

Swiping those profiles is a lot of work.

From what I gather, yes. But will you be allowed to install F-Droid? No.

A lot of users care about privacy but find it unattainable due to technical difficulties.