• Hellmo_luciferrari@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    There should be protocols and practices in place to stop our data from being owned and sold. Hence why I take the steps I do to help anonymize myself to a small degree. Ditch Facebook, ditch apple, ditch google, ditch Microsoft, ditch any provider that wants to claim your data that tou can to minimize this sort of behavior.

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      John Oliver was able to buy data of politicians to get them to click on porn of Ted Cruz or something a long those lines. Thats the route we have to go to get this changed. Like when leaking Bork’s video rental history got privacy protections passed in the 80s

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      9 months ago

      Serious question: Do you browse this app, or similar sites, on an iPhone or Android device? If so, how are you getting away from those companies?

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        As MajorHavoc said, there are ways. I do in fact use GrapheneOS, have access to a reasonably secure VPN, I use Firefox as well as Vanadium, within Firefox I use Ublock Origin and a few other tools. Some argue that having as many layers of “protection” is counterintuitive because it makes your fingerprint on the web more unique.

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          Some argue that having as many layers of “protection” is counterintuitive because it makes your fingerprint on the web more unique.

          That’s a great point.

          I’m comforted that you listed largely the same controls as I use, so it seems like at least there’s a little cloud of us ‘deGoogle’ users out there providing eachother some anti-fingerprinting.

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        9 months ago

        GrapheneOS is a good start.

        So is brwsing with Firefox and uBlock origin, and a VPN.

        There’s a ‘deGoogle Yourself’ Lemmy that gives lots of guidance (and it works beyond just Google).