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v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 15 days ago to Privacy in What would you consider your threat model?

I used reddit under a normal username that I used everywhere for like 10 years. I didn't ever do anything, but did start to feel uncomfortable with the amount of data available to anyone interested. Discord was so much worse for me, I had years of chat logs with like thousands and thousands of messages. Modern governments have the potential to have so much information on people compared to before 1970. Like, there's a very big difference between getting a subponea for 100,000 messages in chat logs for 2010-2020 and having to talk to acquaintances of the person in the ways that investigations happened before the internet.

I don't know, I somewhat think there should be shorter time limits for how long chat logs can be used in courts.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 15 days ago to Privacy in What would you consider your threat model?

My threat model is company tracking. I feel like I stand out like a red target with a random letter username, but it's just so companies using tools like Sherlock will struggle to connect my other accounts. I found it exhausting to create new usernames that I liked for every service.

I've actually been wanting to create a normal fediverse account self hosted with my own domain, but I haven't done it yet because I haven't completely determined what I want to do yet.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 3 months ago to Technology in You Can Now Follow President Biden on the Fediverse

It should be possible to ping him to a post or comment though. (or for him to comment or post here)

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Technology in Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B

These statistics are only as good as their method of data collection.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B

Yandex is not that popular in the United States, their data collection seems wrong. Semrush ranks reddit #3 in the US.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration

It is owned by Microsoft.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 5 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration

GitHub also has a legal defense fund for developers. GitHub lists it on their DMCA takedown page.

When GitHub processes a DMCA takedown under our circumvention technology claim review process, we will offer the repository owner a referral to receive independent legal consultation through GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund at no cost to them.

They created this fund after claims were made against a YouTube downloader from a third party. (not Google)

I don’t know if this would be an anti-circumvention claim, but it doesn’t sound like a bad idea to ask.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 5 months ago to homeassistant in Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration

GitHub also has a legal defense fund for developers. GitHub lists it on their DMCA takedown page.

When GitHub processes a DMCA takedown under our circumvention technology claim review process, we will offer the repository owner a referral to receive independent legal consultation through GitHub’s Developer Defense Fund at no cost to them.

They created this fund after claims were made against a YouTube downloader from a third party. (not Google)

I don’t know if this would be an anti-circumvention claim, but it doesn’t sound like a bad idea to ask.

v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to Privacy in Active combat against surveillance instead of passive defense

I think all 3 are likely detectable.

AdNauseam is my favorite though, and probably currently the least detectable. It purposefully costs advertisers the money they bid against each other for clicks. Though, if abuse of it becomes too high, I think Google would very likely separate out users they have detected as likely bots. Though, for people who do not browse the internet very often, there might not be very much data to be confident they’re a bot.

I really don’t like that modern advertising is based on highly invasive spying. A billboard is a nuisance, but someone watching everything I do online is a stalker.

edit: It’s about making predictions about behavior worse. An issue is that advertising has conversions or sales, which most fake clicks will not become conversions… but part of it is just creating data that might cause predictions against other people for content they don’t desire. (resulting in less impactful advertising)