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narwhal,

Better watch youtube from a piped instance.

narwhal,

SmartTube is more optimized for TV: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

Give it a try.

narwhal,

This is from Jonathan Gagne’s Instagram post.

EU Alternatives (dasprive.be)

To escape from the big corporations of the USA, as a user we have two options, either to use OpenSource alternatives, although not all of them they are free of influences from Google, MS, etc., or using products and services of European companies, which in general are rather more aimed at protect privacy (GDPR), although only a...

narwhal,

Tutanota is now Tuta

tuta.com/blog/tutanota-is-now-tuta

narwhal,

I just bought Legends & Lattes because of seeing the nominees. I haven’t read fantasy books in a while and it seems like it’s going to be a cozy read.

narwhal,

Same here! I finished reading it in a couple of days only.

narwhal,

I’m aware. So even though I have to use them, I try to limit trackings as much as I can.

narwhal,

This is awesome. Thank you 🙏

narwhal,

Fuck cancer!

narwhal,

It’s not just browser though, sharing links from apps also generate these URLs. A lot of people then share these links through chat apps.

I do realize that most people are not aware of it, that’s why I said this is more of a rant. Just want to vent to fellow privacy minded people.

narwhal,

Because I don’t expect the target audience to be here in /c/privacy

narwhal,

No but that’s what the comments are for. I share if the discussion is relevant.

narwhal,

Look, the point is that I’ve tried explaining it to friends and family and whoever want (and don’t want) to listen.

This post is a rant / wishful thinking as stated as being so, I’m not in the mood of explaining everything again. I’ve done that in my personal blog, etc.

narwhal,

How so? This is a rant post, I’m not trying to present it differently.

narwhal,

That’s an interesting idea. Although some websites/apps will have some quirks that might break the general rules.

narwhal,

Then they know who’s the poster (you), they can know your username if they want to. A lot of people use the same username in many places, so unless you use different usernames in different social media, it’s still valuable data.

If not that, seeing how the content spreads through social media and analyzing the reach is interesting data by itself.

narwhal,

Thanks. Looking back, maybe I should’ve at least explained about it a little more. At the time I just wanted to blow off some steam.

narwhal, (edited )

For android, I use this: github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

For firefox, I use ublock origin and add then anti url tracking list. Adguard maintains such a list. I forgot the exact name though.

Edit: it’s this one raw.githubusercontent.com/…/filter.txt

narwhal,

Try sharing Instagram post or YouTube video from the apps.

Instagram adds ‘igshid=’ . YouTube adds ‘si=’.

Try sharing the same IG or YouTube content from different accounts. The ‘igshid’, ‘si’ param value will be different

It can be used to tag who shares it, and who clicks on that specific url param.

TikTok hides a ton of such params behind shortened url. Try expanding tiktok shared urls.

narwhal,

I’m aware that with most privacy issues, a lot of people have limited understanding about it. Hell, I’m probably ignorant on many other privacy issues outside of this topic.

narwhal,

Because url shorteners can be used to hide affiliate links or even malicious URLs.

narwhal, (edited )

If you use ublock origin, I find add-ons such as ClearURLs to be no longer necessary.

You can just add url tracking filter like this one maintained by adguard to ublock origin: raw.githubusercontent.com/…/filter.txt

narwhal,

I just double checked, it should be included in the default filter list.

i.imgur.com/uKmWh0L.jpg

You just need to activate it.

narwhal,

I didn’t remember it well, but after checking it again, the list is actually included in the default filter list. It just needed to be activated if it hasn’t. I don’t remember the default behavior.

i.imgur.com/uKmWh0L.jpg

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