For a while now I’ve been quite happy running LibreWolf, with Bitwarden and some other privacy extensions. I’ve also switched over from Google to Kagi as a search engine; doesn’t keep me anonymous, but I do love not being the product for once.

  • ch1cken@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Modifies your fingerprint making you more unique.

    I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i’d recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you’d be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.

    If you’re using localcdn with a vpn, i agree that’d be counter productive since what does it matter that third parties get your ip if that ip’s shared with a massive group of people and isn’t your real one, but otherwise its still a perfectly valid addon.

    • dngrayM
      1·
      1 year ago

      I disagree, the whole usecase for decentraleyes (although i’d recommend localcdn instead as it supports a lot more frameworks), if for users not using a vpn, in which case you’d be fingerprintable via your ip address anyways, what localcdn achieves is having privacy from third parties, as opposed to the website itself.

      That is not how it works. It modifies your fingerprint because its no longer requesting certain resources. Even one of the Tor developers points that out and it’s why it’s mentioned on https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother