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Hahaha.

I am of the habit that I block it globally on the browser. Until perhaps a website that I have to use needs it.

Oh, absolutely. Ironically is just a set of scripts that you can run independently, it is called Phoenix. I run the script on the FF Nightly installed on my phone for the LULZ and for the newer toys.

True, TOR is best in class, but if you have used it, then you will see that it has some caveats for every day normal usage. Tons of sites will actively block it or give you trouble. But of course, it has its niche and tons of use cases, but in my use case it is a bit overkill.

Aside Lemmy, Reddit, and LinkedIn, all of which I use very sporadically, I am not on any other social media, use VPNs which I switch often, Do not use Google/MS services and I host most of the stuff I use myself including my own cloud and search engines.

IronFox barely breaks anything for me, and that is with webrtc and JIT disabled but as I said, most of the stuff I use is hosted by me, so I make those work. In my use case, uBlock Origin, used in Medium mode breaks way, way, way more stuff. But most people do not use it that way, so it does not apply to them.

Also, you are quite correct.

I go out of my way to not use any MS product. Thank god for Linux and Foss apps.

It may, if enough people did it. I stopped too.

This is what I been using for years. Works great. But not everyone has, knows or wants to deploy a server with Nextcloud.

Firefox Sync looks fine.

I use Island. Same concept, and does the same, including contact isolation. Which was added a while back.

No, Apple is just doing the governments’ bidding due to laws.

The real goal down the line is this, to be put in place circa 2030. The goal really is control… with a healthy side of profit for all involved:

To have a Digital IDs that surveillances and montiors everything you are and do, that proxy control you. For your protection and for the children, of course.

The age restriction BS is just the up ramp towards this. Think about, why is it that like 15 countries are pushing this all of the sudden, within the smae window. From the UK, USA, Sweden, Australia, Spain, Brazil, etc. Then, CBDCs and then the scam of UBIs which will be used as means to control too, or did people really think that UBIs actually meant that kind governments are really going to give you some stipend cash for free and for nothing in return? Come on.

Politicians and technocrats are delusional utopian ideologues who think they know better than us on how to live our own lives.

Sure. It is a user data collection funnel, developed with love and care, as to maxize MS shareholdee value, and increase the size of Bill Gates’s bank accounts.

No one should use it.

Okay, I get it that many people are not happy with the current administration but to claim what you just claim tells me that you know nothing of China’s actual political structure and how it relates to its citizens. The USA as a whole, is still way better than. The CCP.

Like the West recent 1984’s policy pushes both in the USA, and Canada, and Australia, Germany, And the UK are literally just coping the current CCP playbook.

No way, for real?

Have a link for that? That is crazy if true.

Likely the consortium that currently bought TikTok does not agree with his political bias, where the Biden one did.

Same with Covid shots, Biden and Kamala were essentially saying that they would not or would hesitate to take “Trump’s Covid vaccine.” Then, a month later they won, and then had no problem pushing it onto everyone because it was no longer “Trump’s Vaccine,” but their own administration’s. I can’t be the only one that remmebers that.

How 1984 of them.

This is a bit of a misnomer. No one PC can be fully anonymized or fully private, even if the PC provided fake data points, they will still be technically fingerprinted. Having said that, having a browser that tries to spoof stuff like LibreWolf, Tor or IronFox is decent.

The gains in using a VPN, among other best practices is that helps --assuming people do not log on to something like Google-- is to minimize the fingerprint of the PC to you, as a user. Assuming one trust their VPN provider, helps.

Tor leverages the point of having all users look and be fingerprinted mostly as the same, so you get lost in the shuffle and crowd.

The real fix is switching to Linux if possible.

Quite true, but that should not be a reason to use Gmail, anyway.

More so if you have friends who are not on Gmail.

That’s because I’m the aggregate they are all the same. Regardless of party most are corrupt and get along just fine behind close doors.

I mean, Pelosi made over $100 million on the stock market via inside trading, a number of GOP do the same, maybe not well as her, but they do it, too.

Been using uBlock for what feels like 15 years now. I find it weird and off putting when using other people’s PCs without it. So many ads and so much garbage everywhere. Same when I watch network TV.

I use IronFox and I do pass that test. Only browser that I use that does. FF and Cromite do not.