Re:Stop Hacklore (modern urban legends about digital safety)
by golem14 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @08:08PM
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BTW, I really would like to have a way to partially clear cookies – i.e., I don't want to be signed out of gmail, and maybe not out of the Mechanic's Bank of Alaska or Amazon or Netflix, but most other things could go. I don't think this is easy in Chrome, Safari or other mainstream browsers, is it?
Yesyes, I do know that Big Ad can mostly stitch together some proxy profile of me anyway, but it would be more blurry.
Re:Stop Hacklore (modern urban legends about digital safety)
by thomastjeffery on Sunday November 30, 2025 @08:29PM
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Firefox has a great feature for this: multi-account containers. The UI is trash, but it's usable.
Re:Stop Hacklore (modern urban legends about digital safety)
by dolmen on Sunday November 30, 2025 @11:31PM
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Just use a separate browser profile for your critical accounts.
Re:Stop Hacklore (modern urban legends about digital safety)
by golem14 on Saturday December 06, 2025 @11:32PM
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Doesn’t this leak info when clicking on a link in say gmail opening that link in another profile? Most URL’s have pretty long extra strings in them that I assume are just cookie-equivalent?
> the real world across industry, academia, and government.
Gotcha, so no one here gives a shit about privacy. They only care about avoiding the inconveniences of fraud and leaked secrets.
Use a password manager and a feature-complete adblocker (ublock origin on Firefox). Send messages over end-to-end encrypted channels. Use a VPN along with your adblocker and some kind of cookie/browser-id isolation if you don't want your traffic stalked.