jimi_henrik

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[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, thanks! I've ordered a few tonnes of them. :)

Joking aside, the TLD wasn't the only thing that was UK specific, its contents and language (British English) are also very convincing.

 

I ordered some 'adult' clothes for my missus the other day from a seemingly UK store (.co.uk domain). Normally parcels get delivered within 2-3 days but this was taking longer. When checking the package tracking link, I noticed that it's coming from the US and that's why it's taking a lot longer than I expected.

Lesson learned: I need to check the FAQ, help, etc. pages and fine prints for information about the origins of stuff I'm about to order. :/

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

You're welcome.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've heard it from a Hungarian friend.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Dropping the spoon. :)

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If Firefox is now considered a bad choice based on what the new CEO said, what do you think of Ladybird's leader?

https://drewdevault.com/2025/09/24/2025-09-24-Cloudflare-and-fascists.html (relevant section about halfway through)

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Off the top of my head, no. What I do remember is that I couldn't use Librewolf as my daily browser because I had trouble using every other website. Might be an exaggeration, and it could have been due to other factors, not just resisting fingerprinting.

I've just come across this article: https://kevinboone.me/fingerprinting.html

The author describes the situation pretty well:

you enable fingerprinting resistance in Firefox, or use Librewolf, you’ll immediately encounter oddities. Most obviously, every time you open a new browser window, it will be the same size. Resizing the window may have odd results, as the browser will try to constrain certain screen elements to common size multiples. In addition, you won’t be able to change the theme.

You’ll probably find yourself facing more ‘CAPTCHA’ and similar identity challenges, because your browser will be unknown to the server. Websites don’t do this out of spite: hacking and fraud are rife on the Internet, and the operators of web-based services are rightly paranoid about client behaviour.

You’ll likely find that some websites just don’t work properly, in many small ways: wrong colours, misplaced text, that kind of thing. I’ve found these issues to be irritations rather than show-stoppers, but you might discover otherwise.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It could be done on the browser level (maybe it's something browsers like LibreWolf do), however, it would break sites that require the fingerprints to be the same for "security reasons" which may or may not be a legitimate claim.

You could say "well, I'm not going to use that particular website then", but the problem is that there are less and less websites that don't require these technologies to function properly.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In case you are willing to use the beta version of the app: if I remember correctly it's available in beta.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

One hour seems too long for a nap. Have you tried shorter ones, e. g. 20 minutes? AFAIK napping for only a few minutes doesn't affect you much, too long of a nap causes issues you described.

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It seems to have been fixed, try this: GitHub

Or try the suggestion above (revert to the old kernel).

[–] jimi_henrik@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I'm no expert either, but I think the section mentioned above allows Nebula and the advertising companies to do a lot more than just collecting info about whether you visited the sign-up page or not.

 

I recently discovered this setting and thought it might be of interest to others::

This setting is intended to help our users in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom and Switzerland control the use of their personal data to train, test, validate, and align our own Al models as well as third-party Al models

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