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When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/21465918...
I didn’t know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers’ preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
It’s not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
It has finally happened…not surprised though.
Google’s AI model will potentially listen in on all your phone calls — or at least ones it suspects are coming from a fraudster....
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a ‘user...
The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25062075
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
With the latest version of Firefox for U.S. desktop users, we’re introducing a new way to measure search activity broken down into high level categories. This measure is not linked with specific individuals and is further anonymized using a technology called OHTTP to ensure it can’t be connected with user IP addresses....
Title says it all–a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I’m curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!
Is it just me or do Instagram videos loaded via Pixwox always buffer for you too?
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13793778...
Does 4chan respects user privacy? How much data are they collecting? Are they selling/sharing it with 3rd parties? I’m asking because it’s not possible to post anonymously (each individual post being anonymous without your username visible) on lemmy, and users here told me I could check out 4chan for this feature....
I’m using multiple browsers, so for each browser I use different VPN connection, but mullvad doesn’t let me.
Requirements:...
Lemmy admin should add option in the account settings for hiding your username from your posts/comments, and hiding your profile from the public, so noone would be able to see all of your posts in your profile page, and even if someone is using a tool for scrapping posts, they wouldn’t be able to link the posts to 1 user,...
Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....
