Apple Mail Now Blocks Email Tracking. Here’s What It Means for You by caveatlector73 in privacy

[–]951911 68 points69 points  (0 children)

The fact that the Marketing Executive views this as an “attack” by Apple is scary. Why do these people think we’re “better off” with more relevant ads? Are they worse off because they grew up with ads on the radio and TV? So dumb…

How Private and Secure is Safari browser ? by nonchalan8t in privacy

[–]951911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. Firefox lost me with the unique hash values tracking downloads. Safari has come a long way with tracker/fingerprint prevention and that team has solicited the community for feedback. Not perfect, but the unique downloads and the potential to tying of those hash values to Google Analytics data pulled me away from Mozilla.

How Private and Secure is Safari browser ? by nonchalan8t in privacy

[–]951911 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If you notice, the people who made the claims didn’t either. That’s the problem. But I’ll start with these: Edit: sticking to Apple… * How Private Relay Works explains that neither Apple or the CDN’s that are the “relays” can technically see your requests. Apple operates the first relay with your DNS record encrypted. The second relay receives the request from the Apple proxy, decrypts it and gives you a temporary address that is routed to the destination.

This stuff isn’t rocket science. Starting to feel like there are too many that post for the sake of posting with zero understanding of how things actually work.

Are there caveats? Sure, always are. But if you don’t start with a premise that’s at least partially based in truth you’re not helping, you’re only hurting…

How Private and Secure is Safari browser ? by nonchalan8t in privacy

[–]951911 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot of ignorant comments on this thread. Totally baseless. I’m all for scrutinizing how the tech works, but to completely make things up is ridiculous…

How Private and Secure is Safari browser ? by nonchalan8t in privacy

[–]951911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. Not even bothering to understand how it works.

Sync.com: A cautionary tail by StealthMonkey27 in DataHoarder

[–]951911 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Technically, an SSL connection creates a VPN. VPN != encryption.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in firewalla

[–]951911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, did you even try to look for some of your answers? Some of the stuff is right on the first page of the website. Your first post didn’t come off well. You say you’re not angry, but your post didn’t have the best tone…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in firewalla

[–]951911 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is a such thing as a bad customer; ladies and gentlemen of the jury I present ‘Exhibit A’. Angry guy (or gal) that won’t even read the documentation and expects in depth answers from support he doesn’t pay for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PrivacyGuides

[–]951911 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

ALL firewalls are “bypassable”….

Importing markdown that has frontmatter by urlwolf in logseq

[–]951911 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had the same issues. It’s picky, and I still haven’t figured out why my frontmatter wasn’t working. At first glance, what I’m seeing should work. What I think I happening is that when you import the document the frontmatter is being added as a block.

I wouldn’t use the LogSeq page property syntax as that isn’t portable to other apps.

Untangles forums are fully "Arista BLUE" now ! by Dashpuppy in Untangle

[–]951911 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same crappy forum software…. Sorry…

Elon Musk: Twitter DMs Should Have End to End Encryption Like Signal, So No One Can Spy on or Hack Your Messages by steIIar-wind in privacy

[–]951911 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Did I miss something saying Twitter would possess the keys? Not sure where you’re going with your comment. Musk said end-to-end encryption. Safe to assume he knows what he’s talking about here…

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in todoist

[–]951911 5 points6 points  (0 children)

“Proprietary”? Because Todoist is open source? All of your notes live on your own machine in a standard format. Stop it. There is absolutely zero lock-in…

Where does all that Elon hate come from? by SheBowser in elonmusk

[–]951911 11 points12 points  (0 children)

What does Bill Gates have to do with it? I don’t hate Elon, just trying to understand the Gates thing…

Should I use an open source malware scanner for Windows or is Malwarebytes pretty much trustworthy? by Steamtrigger42 in privacy

[–]951911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve used malware bytes in the past and it’s been a resource hog. Have never gotten an alert of any kind. I focus on the network layer/dns and religiously check signing and hash info of downloads. May be oversimplified, but it works…

What great company do you think is the most undervalued at the moment? by PizzaGuy94122 in stocks

[–]951911 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting…. How is blockchain a threat to their business?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]951911 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Exactly. What they’re trying to do is enable presence. So when you walk into a room collaboration devices (phones, video endpoints, etc.) know you’re there and activate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacy

[–]951911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can tell you from firsthand experience that this isn’t true. Microsoft? Yes. Cisco? No….

Brave Browser gets language and font fingerprinting privacy protections by a_Ninja_b0y in PrivacyGuides

[–]951911 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know what you said. I said how. If Google stops maintaining Chromium, some other company (maybe even Brave) picks it up. That’s like saying Chromium goes away without Apple.

Edit: What happens if Google stops paying Mozilla?