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After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed it is blocking such efforts.

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[–] wanderingmagus 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not that I'd ever want to touch Threads with a ten-foot pole, but what options would there be to circumvent that sort of intrusion?

[–] chippy 10 points 1 year ago

Browser containers. Not sure if chrome does it, but Firefox has separate containers that are sandboxed from one another. Make a "Meta" container and only access it from there.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One of the topics I've seen become more prevalent in recent years is the idea of limiting your use of privacy addons and softwares, with the aim of trying to prevent your fingerprint becoming too unique.

For example, there are probably a billion users with 21 inch monitors, running Windows 11, browsing on Google Chrome. Providing them with that information just makes you one more in the bunch, but if you stack up privacy addons you end up creating a more easily identifiable picture of yourself through the hole you created by hiding information.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not really. You have to use browsers that are feature-poor (then again, that makes you ironically again very identifiable). You could use command line browsers that do not leak agents or fonts or stuff like that. Again: Makes you more sus to the ad networks. The best thing - as far as I read about it - is to be a chameleon. Have garbage data that is plausible but vague enough to always stay in a big group of possible profiles. Looks as much as possible like the biggest group of people so you can blend in with the mass, while not raise suspicious behavior. And that continue sly with every request you make to every mainstream website you make. You can see how this is hard enough already. I think there are people out there that might can give you a better answer than me. I try to block as much as possible wherever I go via uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole. But this is only a thin veil. In the end, they have me in their database already since years. But as long as I do not see the actual ad, I hope that I get ranked very low in the bidding process as they must know that I do not see/click those. The average instagram user without a adblocker is much more interesting for them.