They might be able to identify specific known large VPN providers, but as a concept, you technically can't just blanket block all "VPNs".
Delivers more than 80% resource savings compared to Community Synapse
Not hard to do when you disable scrollback and image previews.
If I don’t know what your code is doing, and I can’t modify it, I don’t want it.
To be fair, 99% of the world population do not share this viewpoint.
I like the attention to sandboxing/security that web apps are given, the ease of updating, and that the UI design is easier/more accessible (many more web devs than anything else) than traditional apps, but I still prefer the speed, size and light (memory) weight of native apps.
I don't understand how/why this got so popular out of nowhere... the same solution has already existed for years in the form of haproxy-protection and a couple others... but nobody seems to care about those.
Extensions themselves are also frowned upon by privacy advocates because anything that modifies or restricts the DOM/javascript/etc. can itself be detected and used as yet another data point to identify someone.
No anti-fingerprinting method currently in use can evade creepjs to my knowledge. And that EFF site has its own issues... it only tests uniqueness across other visitors the site has seen before, and not all possible combinations of data points.
Even if your boards are made in the US, aren't the machines they use made overseas anyway? Doesn't seem very scalable to me.
not a single mention of notcurses-demo
userscripts like tamper/grease/violentmonkey should be able to do it
Relay-based
instantaneous
Not to mention the entire article+image is AI generated.