Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

• ChairmanMeow@programming.dev ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Usually it helps but not as much as most people think. Very few people actually use a privacy focused browser, so that in and of itself is surprisingly identifying.

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• BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Fingerprinting still does a lot. If you want to do hard, use a VPN inside a VM. Even harder? Use multiple different VMs and a VPS with a VPN.

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• thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It can. Some built in ad blockers like on brave will even skip YouTube ads.

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  • MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Adblock Plus does that for me in Chrome. Although sometimes YouTube is able to disabled the extension, which is bad.

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    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I still use ublock and Firefox, adblock lets paid ads through. Ublock is GOAT and works on Firefox mobile.

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