Comment on Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Rip the bandaid off. It’ll feel better before you know it.

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  • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I did, I’ve deleted my habitual bookmark and put lemmy in the same place on the bar.

    But the volume of discourse isn’t quite here yet.

    But I do like not being banned (twice, the second time an experiment to determine if it was automated, it was) for suggesting Peter Thiel should be turned into soup.

    To the point that I’m gonna get it printed on a T-shirt.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I haven’t been on in a month now. But it’s weird, I had cleared cookies dozens of times, looking for links to streaming a show, as search engines are enshitified and no longer provide them, I found a reddit page a couple of times, it looked like I was logged in somehow, anyway a third time I came back to one of their pages, not having logged in, and set up so I had to type my username to log in, its not automatic, I checked and somehow I was logged in.

  For a month? How did that happen? I closed and cleared cookies and checked back and it didn’t log me in automatically.

  How could that possibly have happened? Is it hacked? Was it logged in for a month, despite clearing the cookies like every day?

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  • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    In the bad old days where I was forced to make spyware in exchange for a white collar paycheque, we used to make things called “supercookies” that used basically any fingerprint, storage, glitches of a browser to store a token or otherwise identify you with or without identity

    We had something like 98% confidence even if you had no cookies, based on just using JS to eyeball your browser and probing it.

    Not saying its a “supercookie” but the internet is funny like that. The current bleeding edge of it seems to be abusing favicon caches

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    • hector@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Thanks for the reply. I have heard of these. After 1/6 I was going to sign up for Gab or one of those right wing social medias that was popular to see what they were saying and sharing, and on the sign in they demanded I authorize “permanent cookies,” which I refused to do. Reading about them everyone else called them persistent cookies.

      But after this incident I checked the cookies and firefox doesn’t show any of these persistent cookies, I don’t know how one would even find them and remove them if they don’t show up.

      I also am chagrined that PC’s don’t protect you from this. Like you should have to explicitly agree to such a thing, and be given tools to see what is on there, and remove them as you see fit. Just one more step into not owning our own electronics and just using it at the permission of the manufacturers and whomever else.

      But reddit never did that to me before. Why would it log me in without telling me? It’s still quite odd there has to be a reason, and it almost has to be a hacker or something I would think. As fantastical as that sounds.

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      • greyscale@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Its not about permissions, its about giving you the occular patdown and making observations.

        I don’t need to know who you are, but that you’re unique and heres how I tell you are you.

        I can later relate that back to PII if I’m clever.

        I hated working in the marketing/tracking space.

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