hiramfromthechi
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 3 months ago:
There’s nothing that can express my disdain for Google’s reCaptcha.
😒 We’re training its AI models 😒 It’s free labor for Google 😒 Sometimes it wants the corner of an object, sometimes it doesn’t 😒 Wildly inconsistent 😒 Always blurry and hard to see 😒 Seemingly endless 😒 It’s the robot asking us humans if we’re the robots
- Submitted 4 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
Hence why we need to remake the internet.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
That’s nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn’t work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.
“We cannot have a society in which, if two people seem to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
- Comment on Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 6 months ago:
We gonna see a GoldeneOS?
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
Don’t worry, it’s not complicated at all. A little inconvenient maybe, but that’s always the trade-off when it comes to privacy and security.
Here are the two most convenient ways that I can think of on each OS.
iOS: Bookmark the frontend URL. When you get sent a link, pop open the page and paste the TikTok URL.
Android: Get Firefox and set it as your default browser. Install the LibRedirect add-on (browser extension). Whenever you get sent a URL, just tap it and it’ll automatically get redirected to the privacy-friendly frontend.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
Only time will tell.
I know this one also went down recently for Instagram: proxigram.privacyfrontends.repl.co
But I’m not sure if it was an Instagram change that did it, or Replit took it down or what.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
See my comment above
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 6 months ago:
Most of my friends know better than to send me TikTok links. But for the few who still do, I use this open source frontend called ProxiTok.
To get TikTok links to redirect automatically on couch, use the LibRedirect extension.
- Comment on me too 7 months ago:
But is it prettier than the Puteketeke?
- Comment on EU Watchdog Urged To Reject Meta 'Pay For Privacy' Scheme 8 months ago:
Privacy is a fundamental human right. Plain and simple.
Online, offline, doesn’t matter. No one should ever have to pay for it.
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 8 months ago:
Source: trust me bro
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
For those of us who can’t code their own extensions: LibRedirect does this for other sites as well, not just YouTube.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 10 months ago:
Synology Photos. I’ve heard Immich is quite good too.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 10 months ago:
A great reminder that your voice does matter. Apply it other things as well, and things can actually improve…
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 11 months ago:
Who doesn’t like an underdog? 😤
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 11 months ago:
Yeah, I mean changing accounts right before writing the comment would work. Doesn’t need to be able to switch in the middle of writing the comment.
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 11 months ago:
👀
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 11 months ago:
Confirmed Eternity does it, thanks
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 11 months ago:
Do you need to enable the setting anywhere? I’m not seeing it.
- Submitted 11 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 11 months ago:
Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 11 months ago:
What type of link was it?
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 11 months ago:
Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it’s using regex.
- Submitted 11 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete) 11 months ago:
Indeed, not all UTM tracking parameters are harmful. For example, you could have parameters like
?src=email&campaign=summer2023that would denote how users engaged with the URL, without necessarily identifying them.Many platforms, however, will try to identify you and collect as much as possible.
- Comment on YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete) 11 months ago:
Not familiar with ScriptSafe—wonder if anyone here can confirm it’s necessary if you’re already using uBlock Origin. I would err on the side of “no,” but you never know.
- Comment on YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete) 11 months ago:
A few years ago, I came across a tool that did exactly this. It might’ve been a browser extension… When you clicked a link that had trackers, rather than providing a clean URL, it sent incorrect/invalid parameters to the tracking link.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Not to my knowledge. It’s absolutely pathetic and honestly kinda psychotic that you’re not allowed to understand your own genealogy and medical history without giving up pretty much everything about yourself. Forever.
Because unlike a compromised password, you can’t just hop on the computer and change your genes (yet??).
Boils down to a legislative failure.
- Comment on Jragon 11 months ago:
In high school, I wrote a play for my creative writing class where the main character named Jrue—named after Jrue Holiday, one of my favorite basketball players.
I remember the teacher got a kick out of it.
