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What do you think of AdNauseam and their 'poisoning-the-well' approach?
  • I'm not sure to what extent this works better than not clicking on anything at all:

    Given that there's already a quantity of data about me on the internet from before my "privacy adoption", the brokers already have an idea about me. If i stopped clicking on ads, that idea would remain frozen in time with my preferences from that time.

    If I started clicling on everything to poison that profile, couldn't the brokers just filter the period when i started clickning everything? In that case, their profile of me would again remain the same they had when I stopped clicking at all, am I right on this?

  • Demand privacy
  • Afaik, with proton you can send messages that won't open through gmail if you protect them with a password. The other person receives a message with a link to open the mail in a browser after entering the password. It's not the easiest solution but if you want to avoid gmail from knowing the contents of a message, you can do that.

  • How likely is it that the Trump administration will attempt to deanonymize online antifascists and leftists and imprison them?
  • It all comes to how anonymous you are on the net. I'd say having a mainstream social media account is right now a high risk if you live in the US, specially considering that Kethamine Karen owns one one of them.

    This to say that deanonymizing you might be cheaper than you think, making it more likely than we all expect. If you want to keep using tnose socials, I'd start by deleting my accounts and creating new ones using new data (such as disposable mails or aliases that forward to your real email)

    Of course, a trusted vpn is a must in these cases. And there is a lot you should be doing on top of all this.

    Right now, if you want to keep your anti-trump line, be prepared to be treated as an enemy, so consider the deanonymation a highly likely possibility.

  • "I'll have my work laptop if anyone needs me!"
  • I never take august because of this. EVERYONE and their mothers take august so everything is crowded and extremely overpriced.

    I prefer getting some time in september and then spread the rest of my days the rest of the year.

  • Proton statement on new Italian draconian laws?

    torrentfreak.com Italy Approves Piracy Shield VPN/DNS Proposal, Risk of Prison For ISPs Intact [Updated] * TorrentFreak

    Senate committees in Italy have approved amendments requiring VPN & DNS services to block pirated content. Threat of prison for ISPs remains intact.

    The new "Omnibus" law in italy tries to block piracy by basically creating a situation in which you will face jail time if you get caught watching an illegal streaming (or your IP does) and ISP and IP providers (they name VPN and DNS services) will face jail time too if they don't notify the authorities of "illegal activity" done by their users.

    E.g. if I watch a soccer streaming from a pirate site, apparently, my VPN provider (in this case, Proton) will have to notify the authorities that I am watching that pirated content.

    This is madness in so many ways, starting by the fact that the law implies that both my ISP and my VPN provider must spy my traffic to see if I am watching any illegal content.

    I wanted to know if Proton has anything to say about all of this for their Italian customers. How are you guys going to face this? Will you simply stop providing the service? Will you ignore the law because you are not an italian company? Or will you spy our traffic to see if we are watching a soccer game?

    I'm quite worried right now about the implications of this law to my privacy. Not because I pirate content but because the punishement for those who don't notify the authorities means that to avoid legal problems, services like Proton will have to actually read our traffic.

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