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  • It’s more that if you ask the app not to track you, there’s nothing stopping the server you’re connecting to with that app from continuing to track you. The server doesn’t even know you opened incognito mode versus just a different browser profile and it would be more of a risk for fingerprinting/sites blocking you if it did have the ability to know if you were in incognito.

    It’s not the browser that’s really the problem in this case, it’s the tracking and building of user profiles across browser profiles and devices on the server side.



  • The best response that I’ve seen to this so far is this video of a former student speaking to the school board:

    Bridget, our first ever interaction was when you retweeted a hate article about me from The Nationalist while I was a Sarasota County school student. You are a reminder that some people view politics as a service to others while some view it as an opportunity for themselves. On this board you have spent public funds that could have been used to increase teacher pay to change our district lines for political gain, remove books from schools, target trans and queer children, erase black history, and elevate your political career, all while sending your children to private schools because you do not believe in the public school system that you’ve been leading. My question is why doesn’t an elected official using our money to harm our students and our teachers for her gain seem to matter as much for us as her having a threesome does? Bridget Ziegler, you do not deserve to be on the Sarasota County School Board but you do not deserve to be removed from it for having a threesome. That defeats the lesson we’ve been trying to teach you which is that a politician’s job is to serve their community, not to police personal lives. So, to be extra clear: Bridget, you deserve to be fired from your job because you are terrible at your job, not because you had sex with a woman.

    Closest to the original source I can find (referenced in numerous news articles): https://www.tiktok.com/@queenofhives/video/7313654227564383530









  • From my understanding, it’s not quite the closest server:

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36971650

    I talked to the maintainer of archive.is years ago, they said this (hopefully they won’t mind me posting):

    There have been numerous attacks where people upload illegal content (childporn or isis propaganda) and immediately reported to the authorities near the IP of the archive. It resulted in ceased servers and downtimes. I just have no time to react. So I developed sort of CDN, with the only difference: DNS server returns not the closest IP to the request origin but the closest IP abroad, so any takedown procedure would require bureaucratic procedures so I am getting notified notified and have time to react.

    But CloudFlare DNS disrupts the scheme together with all other DNS-based CDNs Cloudflare is competing with and puts the archive existence on risk. I offered them to proxy those CloudFlare DNS’s users via their CDN but they rejected. Registering my own autonomous system just to fix the issue with CloudFlare DNS is too expensive for me.

    So Cloudflare isn’t doing anything wrong by passing DNS lookup results it gets from the archive.is servers to its customers instead of trying to ‘fix’ them somehow, but there does seem to be a somewhat legitimate reason for archive.is to be wanting the EDNS subnet information that Cloudflare does not provide due to customer privacy reasons.





  • The list that the repo maintains is for services that can provide burner or anonymous emails.

    You can sign up for Proton Mail anonymously, as demonstrated by a frequent contributor to that repo in issue #414.

    Therefore, it seems appropriate for it to be on that list, as annoying as that is.

    I’d hope that site providers wouldn’t just summarily ban any domains on that list but I understand why they may take that shortcut to reduce spam/abuse if they don’t have adequate resources to handle it other ways.



  • Third party doctrine for one: the data held by third parties has no expectation of privacy, even if it’s about you.

    From Wikipedia:

    The third-party doctrine is a United States legal doctrine that holds that people who voluntarily give information to third parties—such as banks, phone companies, internet service providers (ISPs), and e-mail servers—have “no reasonable expectation of privacy” in that information. A lack of privacy protection allows the United States government to obtain information from third parties without a legal warrant and without otherwise complying with the Fourth Amendment prohibition against search and seizure without probable cause and a judicial search warrant.

    Basically the government’s argument: if you wanted it to remain private, you wouldn’t have given it to someone else.

    I’m reality, it’s an area of law that desperately needs to be updated.