pipes

@pipes@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are usually separate things. Cookies are produced/saved locally, to be read in the next visit (by the same website or maany websites basically forever unless you use firefox containers or at least clear them once in a while). There’s also local storage which is different but can also be used to identify you across the web. Ads, trackers, all of these categories are often made of many small components: you read a single article on a “modern” newspaper website, hundreds of connection are being made, different tiny scripts or icons or images are being downloaded (usually from different subdomains for different purposes but there’s no hard rule). It’s possible to block one thing and not another. For example I can block Google Analytics (googletagmanager) which is a tracker, but accept all of Google’s cookies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"YOU. THE ONE WHO IS MOVING NOW."⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or lock me out when I just had an accident in the yard

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  croc is great, works even when devices cant find each other on the network, or with gigantic folders (I use it between computers).

  Or Simplex chat, I dont use it to chat but only to quickly share between phone and laptop :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to sign up to services that require sms authentication?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Other than avoiding those services as much as possible, I use a second phone number for “machine-communication”= whenever I’m not giving my phone# to a person.

  I’m in the EU, I found a provider in my country that offered a prepaid sim card (pay-per-use) with no expiry date, but never use the credit on it because it’s free to receive sms. I turn it on in my dual sim phone whenever I need it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here we go again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, at least installing a foss browser won’t slow down your phone like a spyware app, you could always try something like Mull even for only a portion of your browsing if you have ~80MB to spare. I suggest it because I hate some of that extra bullshit that comes with standard Firefox. Also there’s tons of projects that try similar stuff with Chromium! Like Mulch. Way better defaults than Chrome