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What are some controversial privacy topics?
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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
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Hard agree, except I do have an issue with the last paragraph in that I think it’s far dumber than you’ve described.
Simply blocking (a shit ton of) domains can really get you 99% of the way there. I’m a web developer and it’s stupid dumb how third-party stuff is hosted. It’s either exactly that (third party hosted) or a CNAME or a third party which is easily blocked.
Look, I know how complex tracking and fingerprinting can be. But from my experience, it’s really not hard to block. Of course, I’m not really speaking to first party tracking where blocking would destroy the entire experience. But for the most part, you can prevent a profile being built about you (at least for tracking and advertising) by blocking with DNS.
I use DNScrypt and Quad9 DNS
I’m using Quad9 as the upstream resolver too with TLS DNS. But before sending off my query I check my blocklist to return
NXDOMAIN
for tracking/advertising domains (I prefer doing that to using0.0.0.0
as is common, it also blocksHTTPS
queries which is nice.Problem is first party tracking. Blocking is just against third parties. For first party tracking you are just going to have to use tor browser.
Yeah I go through multiple VPN providers for this.