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“We know your IP address”. No kidding, that’s how IPv4 works, even if the browser wasn’t leaking offering it.

Capitalism > Law

Disagree. The fact that these devices are both capable of, and would actively, emphatically, attempt to do any level of data harvesting, is a problem. Can they be defeated? Yes. They should not have to be. We deserve better.

I have no idea. I didn’t even trust it on my main home network. Connected it to my guest network so it couldn’t scan my home network. Which it tried to do, if course.

Clamshell mode. External monitor, lid closed. My issue was that I could not tell it to sleep when not in use, because their IT disabled sleep to ensure their corporate spyware was always running.

I recently quit a company that does. They hid that until after I accepted and started. I quit out of frustration after a couple weeks of having to listen the the fan all day due to their surveillance and telemetry running. They even disabled sleep mode, so you either had to leave that thing phoning home 24/7, or forcibly shut down every day. 10 minute boot time on a brand new laptop.

Wow, this feels like a honeypot/data harvesting site than a call to action. Just contact your reps directly…

Think lower level. They own your device keyboard, so they can technically read whatever you type. Whether they send that to the mother ship, I don’t know, but it’s a risk. That’s one example, but same holds true for anything low level, like mic, camera, etc.

This section is almost worthless. It’s wholly reliant on the app developer self-reporting accurately, and honestly. We know how effective self-regulation is…

Just assume ALL apps are data harvesting, and take measures to block or sabotage that.

Good plan, just ensure you isolate that VM from your home network, too. I don’t trust my company at all, so their laptop only connects to my guest wifi.

Some surveillance tools use DNS queries for tracking. Until this can block that, too, having a DNS-based blocker will be crucial for privacy protection.

I think you are missing the part of the intent of the question. Multicast is wasteful in a large chunk of IPv4 range. If it were a smaller range, the leftover IP’s would be available for general use.

You’re correct in that it wouldn’t help for the other reasons OP noted, since CDN’s do all that heavy lifting already, and do it better than pure multicast could (geo-location, for example).

Agreed, not a fan. The hand would look better if it wasn’t aiming for realistic contours, and instead was more cartoon-ish

Rover

I donate to my instance.

If you are getting something for free, you are generally the product, not the consumer.

300K is nothing but a taste, for normal usage. I’ve been using NextDNS on my home network for a few years. I average 1.2 million queries/month. And that’s with cache boost (forced minimum TTL) enabled.

$20/year is worth every penny. The amount of time you save in blocking all the ads and surveillance marketing services is worth 10x that.

Fro recurring ones, the surgery is followed up with an acid treatment that kills part of the nail bed, so the nail stops growing so wide. I have had it done on both big toes, on both sides. Haven’t had any issues in over 15 years.

Signal is E2EE. While it does use notifications, there is no meaningful unencrypted content in them. The content of the notification you see is decrypted on-device.

The “record” is a SMS verification code. All that will tell the government is that you registered for Signal, nothing else.