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You can increase the number of hops to make it very difficult. Guard nodes are pinned, so they might know who uses and who doesnt use Tor (doesnt matter if you arent using a bridge).

You can also set up your own exit/guard node and configure Tor accordingly. While not a recommended setup, it works pretty reliably.

Being blunt: your setup doesnt protect you from Apple. Websites will and does recognize you on every visit, both those done in private tabs and the usual ones. DDG and ProtonMail i cant comment on, but they are one of the better choices for the less tech-savvy/i-want-to-spend-my-free-time-having-fun. You have a pretty nice setup in terms of security, however.

If you want better protection for websites identifying you, you should consider researching on browser fingerprinting (which is extremely hard, if not impossible to do on Safari). If you want better protection overall, ditch Apple.

If they had given you a seat that gives you power, money and influence, and you had the knowledge to expand it both for yourself and them, what would you do?

Nothing? Well that seat would vanish pretty quickly.

This API wont remove or deprecate the already existing tracking methods, third party cookies can be disabled but alternative practices have been developed a good while ago (and new ones are actively being found). Advertisement networks _will_ find a way (avoiding fingerprinting is impossible, unless all browser companies decide to merge; exposing hardware to the web is the new trend for web technologies, and hardware can be extremely unique especially when combined with an IP yada yada) without depending on Google, their competitor in advertising, for their own product. Google, however, will hand your search history out to any website for free(?)
Rule #1 about 0-days: If you learned about it and nobody is dead or arrested, its not a 0-day.
Re:Humanised kidneys grown inside pigs for the first time on Thursday September 07, 2023 @03:46PM (#37424577)
> to have a peaceful life

profit over and over again.

Re:This page exists only if someone is looking at it on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @05:44PM (#37411802)
Ignoring STUN/TURN, WebRTC should be able to do this. there are things like webtorrent.io

All we need is demand. Demand for non-walled garden content. Demand for less monthly subscriptions to be able to run something you already own. Demand for DRM-free content that you can share with your grandma or watch on a seperate device on a flight.

Re:Google search has suddenly got insanely good on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @12:17PM (#37407286)
i dont get this, i can find almost anything i want with DDG, Yandex or a metasearch engine. I havent used Google for a few years now and i never have issues with it. Could you provide any sample work you search for? Maybe DDG performs better in specific topics (although the SEO spam has been getting more and more annoying)
Re:Fighting API Bots with Cloudflare's Invisible Turnstile on Wednesday September 06, 2023 @01:47AM (#37401693)
it doesnt matter if you enabled it or not, you need to allow Clownflare's guerrilla fingerprinting to be allowed access. Which is a huge downside, unless you have access to a bunch of proxy servers and the knowledge to randomize and spoof your fingerprint accurately.
Re:Searching for “Notepad” on DuckDuckGo yields zero results on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @05:43PM (#37398172)
Similarly to DNS, its always regex.
Re:Proprietary Surveillance on Sunday September 03, 2023 @06:25PM (#37375185)
> The Amazon Kindle-Swindle has a back door that has been used to remotely erase books. One of the books erased was 1984, by George Orwell.
Re:Hasanlu Lovers on Sunday September 03, 2023 @05:31PM (#37374815)
> How the lovers died and ended up in the bin is still under speculation but both skeletons lack evidence of injury near the time of death and possibly died of asphyxiation
Re:Doing Laundry on Campus Without a Phone on Saturday September 02, 2023 @04:05AM (#37359426)
Damn, i knew that Apple did marketing well but not this well. Great success, apple marketing team.
Re:How the FBI took down the Qakbot botnet on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:33PM (#37357264)
Disagree. Law enforcement shouldnt be able to interact with infected computers at all if they dont have the explicit order.
Re:How the FBI took down the Qakbot botnet on Friday September 01, 2023 @07:31PM (#37357247)
> geo ip lookups is impossible

impossible is the wrong word here, its just unnecessary. The Feds can (and do) definitely contact domestic & international ISPs to perform near 100% accurate lookups.

Re:Utopia Clicker on Monday August 28, 2023 @06:59PM (#37301447)
You did a setInterval, right?

Right?

This is how the free market works, however. You can sell yourself a pencil for 1mil and it will be technically valued at 1mil in the public market, but good luck selling that to someone else. Same applies to NFTs, just a bit more marketing (edit: and dumb hype i should add) is involved.
Re:Firefox 1.0 New York Times Ad on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:34AM (#37281307)
Mozilla's FTP was a lifesaver when i was configuring/updating old, barely functioning Windows desktops. Glad to see them keeping it alive.
I think this is because of FB/Meta. I would assume that they dont have massive financial restrictions from investors due to their data harvesting capability. Other apps like Telegram, however, might work harder to introduce money-making features.
While i agree that TLS will probably be used more restrictively over the years, corporate use should hold back a self-signed CA crackdown.
Re:How to Program in Your Sleep on Sunday August 27, 2023 @06:00AM (#37281111)
That can put archive.is out of business.
Re:How to Program in Your Sleep on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:59AM (#37281101)
scribe.rip also works for medium. Or you can host your own instance.
its been a while since i visited their site, but it reminded me of those personal websites and geocities. I still dont know why they seem to be aiming for such a target auidence when they are offering payment related services (art-related stores maybe?) Nevertheless, i wish them success.
Re:FaceFusion: Next generation face swapper and enhancer on Saturday August 26, 2023 @11:46AM (#37273876)
At least that check is not hosted elsewhere and the author is clear from any defamation deriving from their programs use.
Re:Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:53AM (#37260224)
WebGL, an important part of browser fingerprinting, takes a long time. Im sure there are other APIs being 'abused' for this purpose that take a while. This doesnt quite prove the PoW.
Re:Hacker News Guidelines on Thursday August 24, 2023 @06:17PM (#37255281)
Your type of thinking not only affects you with its polarization, but also neutrals or less radical 'other side's that get more and more biased towards any thought-provoking theory/idea. You help the people you criticize.
and who will incorporate these 'non-profit' 'companies' that will get bankrupt in a single lawsuit? Monks?

i also would love a system like this, but 'should's never truly apply in the real world.

why not call the WEI api and use the good ol' !! ?

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