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I'd rather be surveilled by the Chinese government than Google/Facebook and other FAGMAN companies. At least I don't live in the Chinese jurisdiction, while th
by nukeop 7y ago
I'd rather be surveilled by the Chinese government than Google/Facebook and other FAGMAN companies.
At least I don't live in the Chinese jurisdiction, while the tech giants do whatever they can to slip their tentacles into every website you visit, even if you don't do any business with them and actively fight their spyware. The Chinese government doesn't want to sell me anything either.
- throwaway2048 7y agoId rather be surveiled by neither, and a VPN does very little to prevent stuff like browser fingerprinting.
- nukeop 7y agoJust block scripts and randomize the useragent, here's your new fingerprint every minute.
- exergy 7y ago> Just block scripts And make the web nigh-unusable.
- throwaway2048 7y agoand be the one very strong signal from $VPN_IPRANGE that has a random wacky user agent, along with disabled scripting (and a quite comprehensive CSS fingerprint to boot).
- nukeop 7y agoMy fingerprint is different every minute. That "very strong signal" is discarded by every surveillance engine as useless noise.
- throwaway2048 7y agoyou don't know that.
- aasasd 7y agoThere are like three dozen factors in a web user's fingerprint, of which the user agent is just one. And no, the rest aren't all controlled by JS.
- gruez 7y agojust don’t do anything that they can blackmail you for... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590585 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19590585