this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
69 points (92.6% liked)
Privacy
31856 readers
249 users here now
A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.
Some Rules
- Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
- Don't promote proprietary software
- Try to keep things on topic
- If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
- Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
- Be nice :)
Related communities
Chat rooms
-
[Matrix/Element]Dead
much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
No, they don't. Because I don't use a shitty VPN provider.
Also the article doesn't load
Is your Nord VPN on? /S
Edit: Forgot this was sarcasm
I don't use JavaScript or Nord VPN
Not using javascript is like a huge beacon of light screaming just how unique you really are. There are several methods for fingerprinting you without JS, or even without CSS/HTML.
And the number of people not using JS being very small, it doesn't take as many bits of information to uniquely identify you.
And basically 99% of the modern web doesn't work without JS. I don't know why there are still so many people running around and saying "disAblE jAvAscrIpT!!!!", yeah like how the fuck am I supposed to use the web??? At that point, I could also just delete my web browser, it would literally have the exact same effect.
I think there's mainly two usecases:
the "weird" people who don't visit any mainstream sites and live under a rock
people who disable JS by default but are always adding exceptions for sites that need it
I tried the second approach for some time, but using NoScript became really annoying, since I never knew which scripts are necessary, and which are used for tracking or some other bullshit. It was always trial and error, and just felt tedious and unnecessary. I wish NoScript would have a built in whitelist of scripts that are known to be necessary for websites to function, this would avoid breakages and make it much more comfortable to use.
You assume I'm just worried about privacy?
Was being sarcastic 🤣