Re:Ways to surf some of the decentralized web
by superkuh on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:15AM
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Knowing the approximate state or county your ISP is in is not tracking. It's location.
Cell phones with base station multilateration track the cell phone's location 24/7/365 and in the USA that data is accumulated for 2-5 years. Over that time they get to know you and your averaged patterns of movement (<100m) very, very well.
Your IP is how you interact with the internet. Trying to 'hide' it or whatever because you worry about someone knowing your ISP's general location is shooting yourself in the leg. And after you'll start relying on third party services to do what you can't do anymore because of gimping and give away even more private information.
That said, I'm not against using anonymity networks. I host many tor onion services from the very desktop home computer I'm typing to you on. I also support i2p with bandwidth and bitcoin as a full node.
Cell phones with base station multilateration track the cell phone's location 24/7/365 and in the USA that data is accumulated for 2-5 years. Over that time they get to know you and your averaged patterns of movement (<100m) very, very well.
Your IP is how you interact with the internet. Trying to 'hide' it or whatever because you worry about someone knowing your ISP's general location is shooting yourself in the leg. And after you'll start relying on third party services to do what you can't do anymore because of gimping and give away even more private information.
That said, I'm not against using anonymity networks. I host many tor onion services from the very desktop home computer I'm typing to you on. I also support i2p with bandwidth and bitcoin as a full node.