Another thing users are “agreeing” by default and have to opt-out?

I think what you are looking for are custom holographic label stickers. Without having its original design it’s quite troublesome to make an exact copy, especially if you use non-symmetrical overlapping geometrical shapes and hex color bases that are just a bit off the common ones… however, I don’t know a tool to automatically verify them, and as hand-signed copies, they can be copied close to perfection with enough resources.

You mean the VPN? Changing server doesn’t fix it?

you know that suit from A Scanner Darkly? I think about that suit a lot…

I guess a lot of cameras cover sidewalks and so. I have one pointing at my front door and one at my garage door and both show the sidewalk… I never gave much thought about it until I saw that article about Amazon’s Ring cameras recording passerby faces and putting it into their database.

In my country you have to registers SIMs with your real id/name, however criminals just use stolen SIMs hehe
The other day a neighbor of mine got a new phone and asked me to do the start configuration, create Google Acc, download Facebook, TikTok, Whatsapp and crap like that, she had all of that in her previous phone, but she traded it and didn’t remove the SIM card and thought it was a less of hassle creating a new acc for everything and registering a new SIM in her name than simply keeping her SIM and writing down her email addresses and passwords… and I believe a large portion of our population operates like that, absolutely barbaric.

you know that joke about vegans… every tech post I enter there is a kagi user announcing himself xD

owning them libs

I asked them exactly that hehe
So, technically the sites you are redirecting from will never know you tried to access them and the addon is not interacting with any page, but the dev didn’t address/think of probing. I don’t have enough tech knowledge to confirm the addon won’t react to anything, thus making itself known. I don’t know which probing techniques there are and how all those resist-fingerprint and sandboxing settings from privacy-conscious browsers work against it… it does, however, sound like a sophisticated and resource-consuming method that I don’t think they would be using on regular internet unless they have specific targets, so if they have such probing techniques they are probably using it on IPs going through the TOR network (and you shouldn’t use any addon on Tor anyway).
It’s all about your threat model, if you just want to avoid regular tracking and profiling the addon should be fine, now if you are afraid of some sophisticated and resourceful threat actors targeting you, don’t take your chances with any addon.

I use libredirect.github.io to not have to worry about clicking links

If you use some WFP manager you can block all incoming connections and also block all OS connections… I basically only let my browser communicating with the internet, the rest has no business online.

Oops, I forgot to mention the OS, it’s Win11 (I edited the main post now).

thanks, going to try it :)

Some government any day now: To fight CP, we are going to make children illegal.

Wait… that’s what ml stands for??? I got here because it advertised itself as being for opensource software enthusiasts haha

I don’t know much about Lemmy and I’m new here, but on Mastodon there seem to be just an illusion of federation because it’s actually ruled by peer-pressure. Instance A doesn’t like instance B so it defederates from it (absolutely fair), then it goes and tell instance C to also defederate from B else its going to tell instance D, E and F to defederate from C, and so on… remember when people bullied mastodon.lol admin into closing his 18k members instance just because he didn’t want to ban users for liking the Harry Potter game?

I feel like the Fediverse has even more thought police than regular social media.

If I could get a single person to use Signal instead of Whatsapp… or even the nerds I know to use matrix instead of Discord…

update: Lumo sucks.

If you use something like simplewall or Portmaster you can block every OS communication with the mothership and make it look like you are offline for them :)
Probably soon they are making it that you can’t use Windows offline though lol