I mean, idk, you can resist fingerprinting and tracking all you want, if you log in to a tracker and tell it “yes, I’m me” then it’ll always be able to track you. The fact that you’re logging in with your identity at all seems to be negating all anti-tracking efforts.
yes, that seems to be the weak point that the server side tracking keeps leveraging successfully.
every single anti-tracking practice and extension i use usually works for a while, but – inevitably – they become ineffective at some point and i’m learning that i can’t keep up with this perpetual cat-and-mouse game as i age.
i don’t, but i’m glad i tried because i made me aware of how ineffectual my privacy practices and technology have become against meta or google or any other entity with virtually unlimited resources like meta.
I mean, no matter how good your opsec is, you logging into your acct is handing them your identity on a silver platter. Like, you go to facebook using Tails with good opsec, the log in page doesn’t know who you are, but then you type “my@email.balls” and “hunter2” and it knows you’re either a hacker or you’re actually you, so they send you an email “blah blah been accessed from such and such IP/IMEI/etc” but unless you say “fuck no it wasn’t” then they’re like “alright, guess it’s him, add this to the list of tracking this guy’s shit.” It’s like, the guy at the liquor store doesn’t “know who you are” but then you pull out your ID and all of a sudden he does, “yeah, because you gave him your ID.”
You’d need to create a new acct with fake details you haven’t previously used and a fresh email. Or just like, not sign in at all.
you misunderstand, i didn’t provide any email or password; it automatically let me log into the account without any credential challenge like i had an active cached session already.
but it did send me an email saying that i logged in from an unknown location, so go figure.
Ah, I see. Had you ever logged in with that device before? Even if you’d reset it, you can’t reset the IMEI number (and apparently there’s a similar tracker on windows).
It’s a brand new device that I used for the first time and I think it happened because I was logged into several other things at the same time to test it.
Instagram prompted me for the profile I wanted to use while in private mode and that was when I realized that I never provided the password.
this community has a reflexive habit of seizing on typos and minor imprecision for condescension sake. so i sometimes remember it and to tailor how i write as a result.
I mean, idk, you can resist fingerprinting and tracking all you want, if you log in to a tracker and tell it “yes, I’m me” then it’ll always be able to track you. The fact that you’re logging in with your identity at all seems to be negating all anti-tracking efforts.
yes, that seems to be the weak point that the server side tracking keeps leveraging successfully.
every single anti-tracking practice and extension i use usually works for a while, but – inevitably – they become ineffective at some point and i’m learning that i can’t keep up with this perpetual cat-and-mouse game as i age.
The answer is simply “do not use facebook, instagram…”
i don’t, but i’m glad i tried because i made me aware of how ineffectual my privacy practices and technology have become against meta or google or any other entity with virtually unlimited resources like meta.
I mean, no matter how good your opsec is, you logging into your acct is handing them your identity on a silver platter. Like, you go to facebook using Tails with good opsec, the log in page doesn’t know who you are, but then you type “my@email.balls” and “hunter2” and it knows you’re either a hacker or you’re actually you, so they send you an email “blah blah been accessed from such and such IP/IMEI/etc” but unless you say “fuck no it wasn’t” then they’re like “alright, guess it’s him, add this to the list of tracking this guy’s shit.” It’s like, the guy at the liquor store doesn’t “know who you are” but then you pull out your ID and all of a sudden he does, “yeah, because you gave him your ID.”
You’d need to create a new acct with fake details you haven’t previously used and a fresh email. Or just like, not sign in at all.
you misunderstand, i didn’t provide any email or password; it automatically let me log into the account without any credential challenge like i had an active cached session already.
but it did send me an email saying that i logged in from an unknown location, so go figure.
Ah, I see. Had you ever logged in with that device before? Even if you’d reset it, you can’t reset the IMEI number (and apparently there’s a similar tracker on windows).
It’s a brand new device that I used for the first time and I think it happened because I was logged into several other things at the same time to test it.
Instagram prompted me for the profile I wanted to use while in private mode and that was when I realized that I never provided the password.
Yeah probably tbh, they share data.
tor is the simple answer. same fingerprint as everyone else, different IP every time.
i want to use tor 100% of the time, but it is SO SLOW and i’m too burger-ized to put up with it.
Is there another kind?
this community has a reflexive habit of seizing on typos and minor imprecision for condescension sake. so i sometimes remember it and to tailor how i write as a result.