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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Your phone is a snitch in your pocket, and the law won't save you. It's time to break the surveillance machine. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by DefinitelyNotBirds@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Your smartphone tracks your location, listens to your conversations, and sells your intimate moments to data brokers.

The law pretends to regulate this, but lobbyists write the rules and enforcement is a joke.

Encryption apps aren't enough when the hardware itself is designed to betray you.

The phone is a spy device marketed as a lifestyle accessory.

We need radical technical solutions, not incremental privacy policies that change nothing.

The surveillance economy depends on your ignorance and inaction.

Break the chain: use open hardware, de-Googled Android, or build your own tools.

#privacy #surveillance #digitalrights #antitrust

How much of your life are you willing to sell for a slightly more convenient map app?

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[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Some stuff that you can use are

AdNauseam, visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them, nuking the usefulness of ad trackers
TrackMeNot, spams queries on search engines, clicks some links here and there, all in the background. Works perfectly with AdNauseam, nuking both ad & search profiling

Then there is this experimental (HARPO: Learning to Subvert Online Behavioral Advertising) paper on using ML to obfuscate online tracking, it's a research paper so my understanding is limited to the excerpt 😅 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.05792

[–] tdTrX@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

TrackMeNot is dead

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

Not updated but it still works fine

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

visually blocks ads but under the hood clicks on them

I get where they're coming from on the idea. But the problem I have... it would still run all the fingerprnting scripts and other shit. Sure it makes some bad data added to the good... but still plugs me into huge adware ecosystems. It leaves such a bad taste in my mouth, if any of their shit hits my comp.

I really mostly want to not be part of any of that shit. 🤮 Just leave me alone, surveilance companies, thank you.