Just heard about this. I've been using Decentraleyes for awhile, but didn't realize it hadn't been updated in a long time. This is a fork and is much more actively maintained. https://www.localcdn.org/
Very pleased to see that Mastodon already have the intention to block FLOC in a coming update.
#mastodon #floc #fediverse
https://mastodon.social/@mastohost/106069491679821561
How a #WhatsApp status loophole is aiding cyberstalkers
https://traced.app/2021/04/13/whatsapp-status-loophole-is-aiding-cyberstalkers/
Use the #DuckDuckGo extension to block #FLoC, #Google’s new #tracking method in #Chrome
The Electronic Frontier Foundation built a new site to tell you whether or not you are a test subject in #Google’s latest #tracking experiment. Visit Am I #FLoC’ed to see if your #browser is putting you into one of their new #advertising categories.
This DuckDuckGo audit by @purism is a sobering read:
https://source.puri.sm/toolauditor/CEAP/-/blob/master/audits/ddg.md
Remember that DuckDuckGo is venture capital-funded which means that they must exit—either become a publicly-traded multi-billion-dollar company (sell to the public) or sell to one of the incumbents.
(What we need is a publicly-funded but independently run search engine. The EU could create such a thing… if they didn’t have they heads firmly entrenched up Silicon Valley’s bumhole.)
"Defending your privacy – our #privacy – is a civic duty," argues Carissa Véliz.
"When we tell companies about ourselves, we give away details about others, too.”
https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/privacy/2019/10/privacy-collective-concern
In case you’re a person on here who’s still trying to get away from Twitter, I wrote a user stylesheet that might help you: https://laurakalbag.com/write-only-twitter/
Facebook’s #Instagram for #kids Will Be Money
«On the surface it seems like such a platform would be bad for business, lowering the number of users who can view #ads. #Facebook says the app wouldn’t be about its bottom line. In reality, such an app could make its ad-targeting ability across its platforms even better.»
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebooks-instagram-for-kids-will-be-money-11617102014
Do you have any policy on starving #browser tabs? I find myself using tabs as "read it later" #bookmarks but these keeps growing and growing... 😞
Would you like to discover who track your #web surfing?
Here you are a plugin to visualize 3rd-party connections between sites.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-3-0/
#Apple’s privacy problem.
French critique contradicts the #iPhone maker’s #privacy exceptionalism.
RT @VitalikButerin
The most important scarce resource is legitimacy.
Dirty Gold War: The #Gold Industry's Dark Side
#Google reveals what personal data Chrome and its #apps collect on you
https://thehackernews.com/2021/03/google-to-reveals-what-personal-data.html
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