Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by aembleton on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:35AM
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Why use a VM? Couldn't he just use a VPN and a different browser?
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by walrus01 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:13AM
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As it was explained to me, he finds the risk to his main desktop environment of browser fingerprinting/tracking by fb and its tracking-pixel using "partners" to be unacceptably high. By only using the browser in the vm to login to facebook and never anything else, this diminishes the risk.
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by fragileone on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:25AM
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Never heard of uBlock I suppose, poor lad.
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by Nextgrid on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:43AM
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uBlock is not bulletproof as it relies on signatures. Not to mention, the absence of data is data by itself, so maybe it's actually better to provide data, just that said data is fake and dissociated from your primary identity.
Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B
by rmorey on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:49AM
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surprised they don’t use Qubes OS which takes this approach to isolating basically everything: https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
I know a person who keeps an entire virtualbox guest virtual machine that only has access to the internet through a VPN service, for the purpose of logging into Facebook in a browser interface. For the unavoidable purpose of keeping in touch with non technical family members who refuse to use anything else.