[–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The receipt

Putting it together: roughly 1 in 132.1 million browsers look like yours. None of this used a cookie

Second visit: We've met before

I've seen you before, you first showed up earlier today. This is visit number 2. And you came straight here, no link, no search. You remembered the URL by heart. That is almost sweet.how?

And you cleared some of it, 2 of my hiding places were empty when you arrived. I restored them from the ones you missed. This is what tracking looks like without cookies.how?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago* (1 child)

    You seem to be confused about what Signal protects against, or claims to protect against.

    None of the items from your list apply. Maybe you're confusing it with another distributed solution with peers connected through anonymous transport.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (6 children)

    That's at least three points of data we know Signal can't and won't share.

    1. Phone number from ID
    2. Account name
    3. IP address
    4. Registration date or, worse, date this information was accurate (suggesting a ledger of changes)
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  • [–] -1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    Image by EFF (CC-by)

    Based on the numbers on the sign in the picture not matching each other, I strongly suspect that it's AI-generated rather than being actually commissioned or designed in-house.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

    That's most websites, actually. This instance (programming.dev) goes through Cloudflare, as does lemmy.world I linked above. Cloudflare can see each visitor's IP address and browser fingerprint. You're on feddit.uk, so your activity was not tracked.

    https://checkforcloudflare.selesti.com

    https://fshot.org/techzone/cloudflare-exposed.php

    A significant proportion of the web now passes through Cloudflare’s edge servers to get anywhere at all. That is a concentration of trust and visibility that no single organisation should hold.

    Check your browser fingerprint:
    https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

    About fingerprinting:
    https://lemmy.ca/post/72599904

    On websites including Lemmy, when viewing a preview image of a YouTube video, that preview is fetched from YouTube by your browser, which will be recognised by YouTube without you clicking "play". This can be seen in Firefox with NoScript added.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 weeks ago

    Most people don’t know about osm. Also it’s not doing itself any favors with the completely fragmented ecosystem. Also, CoMaps is so much better than Mapquest it’s not even funny.

    Mapquest directions are so horrendous it took me literally twenty miles away from the location it was supposed to and stopped me in the middle of an empty field and said I was there.

    Like, getting the wrong location is one thing, there’s plenty of places with the same names different cities, but this was for an apartment building and it dumped me at an empty field in the middle of a state park……. There’s no apartments there.

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