What TV?

Just block WiFi to the TV entirely and use an Apple TV or nvidia shield.

All it took was an impending fascist police state...

So..

Turns out you can hack your smart TV, and by giving it administrative access (for me it was going into settings, type 1-2-3-4-5, and the select developer mode) and you can get complete control.

I can now stream whatever the hell I like with no interacting with their menus whatsoever. all happens from my server via a html browser and some basic python.

Throw up a Pihole, blast everything that doesnt break the device into tartarus, and avoid vizio because apparently they dont work with their phone homes blocked. Fuck the world we built.

at my house

Ah, no official Android version, boo.

Okay but what "other extension" let's me hyperactively manage which exact domains I allow requests to? 🙃

This is actually much worse for privacy than leaving everything stock, because a site can tell you aren't downloading or running any javascript, and that immediately puts you in an extremely tiny bucket of people it needs to differentiate from, making any differences visible via IP/TCP/TLS/HTML/CSS much more unique.

And yes, fingerprinting is possible with just HTML and/or CSS... I would argue even moreso without JS.

I'm dubious of the stats. Sure if you include China, India, and Africa, your 1in 100M.

But let's look at it the other way.

East Coast population: 128M Android: 30% US = 38M

Primary language English: 77% (realistically for people in US browsing it's closer to 90%)

= 29 M

Screen Resolution was wrong.

But realistically it's identifying your phone model which tend to have unique resolutions. Phones outnumber desktops 8 to 1. So it identified my Pixel which is 4%.

It claims "Do not track on" is rare at 1 in 186,000 but that's the default for Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.

So that means I'm in a pool of 1.1M other users.

Now there are other fingerprints that can narrow it down more, but imo standing in a crowd of over 1M identical people is sort of anonymous.

Btw, I got the same 1in 132M number that you got.

Other than that the site can tell it is Librewolf.
Although, I opened amiunique.org in 2 different ways and the audio data and canvas footprints were showing up to be unique in both. So unless they are randomising it on every start, it is not standard enough.

While on firefox (on a close enough version), the Audio data was coming unsupported, which made it ~30% similarity ratio. On checking now though, the Audio data is visible with firefox.

What made my browser unique was the Canvas and the List of fonts. The latter tends to change every now and then without me doing anything special, because I just downloaded too many fonts.

I WANNA LIVE IN THE WOODS

but shit the woods have all been turned to walmart supercentres

DON'T BOTHER

uMatrix ⚠️ No longer maintained, the last release was Sept 2019 except for a one-off patch to fix a vulnerability

Everything uMatrix did can be covered by prefs or other extensions: use uBlock Origin for any content blocking.

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

It's actually more like a series of tubes...

It's what I always use if I'm ordering anything online, especially if the site I'm interacting with has like 17 different scripts it needs to function properly, or has been shown to play high pitched sounds through your speakers to connect your desktop session with your phone (aliexpress). >..>

Giving up umatrix would be hard, but maybe this'd replace DDG for my "I just need this site to work right now" browser 🤔

Doesn't remember me using Firefox Focus, which is the point of that browser. Pegged me at 1:119M.

Your morals are not the same as everyone else's, it's inherently subjective, and trying to play the altruism olympics is a zero-sum game; there are ways to make everyone lose, every time. Example: The devices we are all using right now are supported by forced child labor. Checkmate.

Who are we to say what other people should be concerned about? Nobody put us in charge. Some believe that trying to impose one's moral standards on others is a sign of arrogance and dismissive of individual autonomy. Usually if something like this were so universally accepted by everyone, it would just be a law already.

Did you have the same moral expectations of the inventors and/or users of the printing press? Think of those poor scribe monks.

What about the cotton gin? Those poor handweavers.

And the steam engine? Computers? Cars? Airplanes? Computers? Calculators? Where does it end and why?

Instead, why not let EFF concentrate on what they do best? The last thing they need to worry about is making their website pretty; I don't fault them for phoning it in. They're legal experts, not graphic artists.

Technically you're referring to the web

I would expect an organization like the EFF to operate at a moral baseline above the legal minimum in terms of not replacing illustrators with AI.

Like most of the rest of the internets.

completely block all VPN traffic nationwide or withdraw access from Utah entirely

And neither of which are technically possible with certainty in the first place. There is no such thing as "blocking VPNs" unless you narrowly define "VPN" as "a well-known provider of VPN services that publishes a list of IPs we can block."

But there's absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop me from making a "VPN" from my house to Timmy's house in the next state.

Legally in the US it currently doesn't matter as long as a human prompted it to do its work, and no other entity comes forward with any potential copyright claims, which would be evaluated subjectively anyway.

>connects to site with NoScript  
>nothing loads  
>checkmate 😎