perfectly_boiled_pizza

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[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 2 points 5 days ago

privacy.resistFingerprinting breaks a lot more than just themes. Many of the weird problems reported in Firefox (and forks) are just from enabling it.

It has some pros but also TONNES of cons. Everything from a completely blank page to wrong timestamps to poor textures and so much more. Sometimes you will be flagged as a bot and prompted with literally infinite puzzles, thus effectively banning you from a website.

Some of these problems get fixed but new ones also get born. I personally use it but I also expect breakage and worse performance.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You can stop this by changing the settings in your browser. In Firefox go to about:config and search for browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction and toggle it so that it says true.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 1 points 3 weeks ago

Go to about:config and set "browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction" to true

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 1 points 3 weeks ago

Go to about:config and set "browser.navigation.requireUserInteraction" to true

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 6 points 3 weeks ago

If you want to help but find configuration hard you can easily help by running a Snowflake proxy on your phone or in your browser.

I have configured my phone run a Snowflake proxy every time my phone is connected to WiFi and charging. It's automated and does not require me to do anything. I have turned on notifications that tell me every time I'm helping someone connecting to Tor. It gives me a good feeling every time.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 2 points 1 month ago

The sender is generating the link preview on Signal. Would this not eliminate the threat for the receiver? Not my field.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 3 points 1 month ago

You shouldn't give out your real email address. I instead use randomly generated email addresses that forwards emails to my real one. I can easily deactivate any forwarding email address and therefore stop any unwanted emails.

It works really well and also has other benefits like for example knowing who sold your information if you start receiving spam.

You also gain a bit of privacy and security from being a tiny bit harder to track and your credentials being less valuable in the case that the company you gave the random address to has a data breach.

This video explains the concept very well.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're absolutely right. I've got a talent for procrastination though. I tried giving myself an excuse while formulating this answer, but I realised that just fixing it would be quicker. Hahaha. Thank you

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

PlayStation Network has a limit of around 30 characters but they let you pick something longer. They even send you an email confirming that your password has been updated. But if you try to login with your new password it won't work.

I'll probably forget this within the next time I have to change it. I will then AGAIN try with 128 characters and then 125, 120, 115... while yelling at the emails they send me.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No. Reddit thinks my patched version is a completely separate app. Reddit still allows third party apps to use their API for free as long as the usage is low. The limit is way too low for all the big third party apps but more than enough for just one person. Follow the guide to "create" your own app.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

You can keep using RiF if you patch it with ReVanced. I used this method for another third party app.

[–] perfectly_boiled_pizza 2 points 4 months ago

I worked in one of the biggest telecom companies in Europe. This is most likely an order made through customer service. The telecom companies have known about this problem for a long time. They are trying balance security and ease of use for the customer.

If company A implements noticeably stricter requirements for identification to order stuff, the average customer gets annoyed and switches to company B.

Therefore the companies watch each other closely and implement stricter requirements slowly at about the same rate as their competitors.

Protip: You can contact customer service of most telecom companies and ask them to write down a password that you need to tell them before you can order a SIM or other stuff.

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