Does Greece care about privacy enough to protest?

Where I am, most ppl don't care or think twice about proving who they are.

May sound like a noble cause on a surface level, but unfortunately it's yet another move for big tech to track our every move and control our lives.

Good reminder to migrate to a paid mail service. Ideally something in your own country.

There were only 2 in my area not too long ago. Time to go hunting, daddy needs some solar panels.

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This map is life saving.

Yeah how is this news?

Mapquest is owned and operated by System1:

System1, Inc. is an American digital advertising and customer acquisition company. Formerly known as OpenMail, it was founded in 2013. It describes itself as operating a "Responsive Acquisition Marketing Platform", and cites privacy as one of its principal foci, although it has been criticized for its influence on privacy-focused properties, including search engine Startpage.com.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System1

So, you're still fundamentally dealing with an ad company, which is not great. They do seem to have some intention to maintain end-user privacy, but how extensive is it and how long will it last? Don't know.

On the other hand, Google has completely abandoned any pretense of not scraping its users' information for everything they can squeeze out of it, and dumping it all into Gemini. System1 doesn't currently have any major AI development projects.

Never mind, they definitely have some kind of AI development going on:

System1 is an Industry-leading omnichannel digital marketing platform, powered by Machine Learning and AI, that monetizes internet traffic by putting the right ads in front of the right people at the right time.

https://system1.com/what-we-do

This probably has something to do with using AI to match data about people with ad placement, though the website is not specific.

Google, you stink, like the poop in my toilet! Flush it down, flush it down so disgusting! Google you are making me gag because of your horrible stench. Please remove yourself from the equation.

Mapquest... Looks like you have to be signed in for it to work.

Great info. It tells me not to use MapQuest.

It isnt already?

Sorry if this becomes spammy, but as a reasonably long-time user of and contributor to OpenStreetMap (whose data MapQuest uses), when I see threads like these, I try to offer support to anyone who's interested in/already using/contributing to OpenStreetMap.

If you have any questions whatsoever about things like getting started, how to survey efficiently, what kinds of details you can map, problems you've been having, etc., even if you think they're really dumb, please feel free to ask. At worst, I can try pointing you to a relevant article on the official wiki, and at best, maybe we'll both learn something.

I wouldn't be asking if I didn't believe every single well-meaning contribution is valuable and that yours would be no different.

Anyone have a handle on the pros and cons of Mapquest over Google Maps? Trying to slowly (very slowly) plan a de-Google someday.

• https://proton.me/flock-camera-map
• This one seems better: https://flockcameralocations.com/map
• Or use Mapquest. It will tell you as you use the directions where they are if you have the surveillance layer on. Looks like you have to be signed in for it to work.

This is TERRORISM! Fine because a RICH person is doing It!

Might be? Lol

The bear trap is actually not very obvious.
Specially in jungles and stuff

There are also temporary mail services which work as inboxes

https://mail.tm/ for example. You never have to give them your email

You sure they don't "leak" your email?

As browser extensions tend to be an important part of fingerprinting, it could make sense to run a very minimal setup, like just uBlock origin or Adnauseam but nothing else. That way, you should be able to blend in with the crowd a bit better, as opposed to using the 20 extensions you currently have. Also, having a random collection of plugins that changes every hour could be good too. Surely, there's a way to fake that. The browser should send a signal to the website about 50 extensions that supposedly are installed. Basically, like a random MAC address, but with extensions.

And get very detailed personal information about people

My reaction when I see that is "ok, then you don't want me to read this, fine, I have plenty of other things to do anyway".

With an email address, they can be a lot more certain you're the same person as everywhere else you've entered the same email address. Browser fingerprinting is a thing, but many people use different browsers at different times (e.g. one on their smartphone, one on their personal laptop, one on their work laptop, etc.).

I see. I thought they were already doing that through browser fingerprinting or whatever. You're saying using your email compliments those tracking activities then, is that right?

If you hand out the same email everywhere, eventually data brokers begin to connect the dots. If this email shows up somewhere, it means that they like this stuff, buy that stuff, they've been here before etc. All of that and more will be revealed when you create a new account with that email.

I consider that a privacy concern. Companies use data brokers to exchange data and build a more comprehensive profile of you, and your email address is a part of it. There's a lot more though, so escaping that kind of profiling is tricky. Using unique emails is a good start though.

Big tech is getting the contracts to collect data for verification services. This is a win for big tech.