🚨 ALERT! Iran's internet is out for 96 hours and some genius at X Corp suggests troubleshooting their nonexistent JavaScript issues! 🎉 Meanwhile, the Help Center is busier than a one-legged man at a butt-kicking contest trying to explain why privacy extensions aren't the problem here. 🙈💻
https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/2010750871274160361 #IranInternetOutage #XCorp #JavaScriptIssues #PrivacyExtensions #HelpCenter #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚫 Oh no, the #US is shaking its fist at the #EU over digital services, but JavaScript won't let us read the details! 💻🔒 The real crisis here is their website's tantrum over our privacy extensions. Maybe they should threaten their own tech support instead. 😜
https://twitter.com/ustraderep/status/2000990028835508258 #Relations #DigitalServices #PrivacyExtensions #TechSupport #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🤖 BREAKING NEWS: "Privacy" extensions are selling your secrets! Who knew that clicking "accept" was basically signing over your soul and deepest thoughts to the #ShadyPanda Corporation? 🐼💼 Now, 8 million of us can enjoy the honor of having our mundane AI conversations peddled for profit. Truly, we're living in the future! 🎉🔐
https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection #PrivacyExtensions #DataSelling #AIConversations #DigitalPrivacy #HackerNews #ngated

8M Users' AI Conversations Sold for Profit by "Privacy" Extensions

https://www.koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-browser-extension-ai-conversations-data-collection

#HackerNews #AIConversations #PrivacyExtensions #DataCollection #UserPrivacy #DataEthics

🖥️🥴 Welcome to the magical land where a 10% easier app means a 200% user boost, unless you're on x.com, where #JavaScript exiles your hopes and dreams. Just disable all your privacy extensions and maybe, just maybe, you'll witness the miracle of #common #sense. 😂🔄
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1970422069151355163 #magicalapps #userboost #privacyextensions #HackerNews #ngated

🌐🚫 Ah, the never-ending saga of the #EU trying to control the uncontrollable! JavaScript-disabled users, rejoice, as your browser compatibility issues have once again triumphed over legislative futility. Who knew that privacy extensions could double as the defenders of our digital freedom? 🤷‍♂️🎉
https://twitter.com/TutaPrivacy/status/1966384776883142661 #Regulation #JavaScript #PrivacyExtensions #DigitalFreedom #BrowserCompatibility #HackerNews #ngated

What happens when we click the "Accept" button of a cookie banner on a website? Who are we sending our data to, and from where?
In this article, we explain what happens and the best ways to protect your privacy and online security with browsing best practices.

https://negativepid.blog/cookies-what-do-we-agree-to-when-we-click-accept/

#cookies #dataPrivacy #browsers #dataCollection #privacyExtensions

Install privacy-respecting extensions.
Some browser add-ons actively block trackers.
#PrivacyExtensions #TrackerBlockers #BrowserArmor

@landley @jschauma @ryanc @0xabad1dea yeah, the exhaustion problem would've been shoved back with a #64bit or sufficiently delayed by a 40bit number.

Unless we also hate #NAT and expect every device to have a unique static #IP (which is a #privacy nightmare at best that "#PrivacyExtensions" barely fixed.)

• I mean they could've also gone the #DECnet approach and use the #EUI48 / #MAC-Address (or #EUI64) as static addressing system, but that would've made #vendors and not #ISPs the powerful forces of allocation. (Similar to how technically the #ICCID dictates #GSM / #4G / #5G access and not the #IMEI unless places like Australia ban imported devices.

I guess using a #128bit address space was inspired by #ZFS doing the same before, as the folks who designed both wanted to design a solution that clearly will outlive them (way harder than COBOL has outlived Grace Hopper)...

• Personally I've only had headaches with #IPv6 because not only do I only have #IPv4only #Internet but my #ISP refuses to allocate even a singe /64 to me (but has no problem throwing in a free /29 of #IPv4's in with my contract!)and stuff like #HurricaneElectric / #HEnet's #Tunnelbroker fail face first due to #Geoblocking and the fact that #ASNs get geolocated, not their #PoPs...

If I was @BNetzA I would've mandated #DualStack and banned #CGNAT (or at least the use of CGNAT in #RFC1918 address spaces) as well as #DualStackLite!

Google will not phase out tracking cookies in Chrome after all

https://stackdiary.com/google-will-not-phase-out-tracking-cookies-in-chrome-after-all/

#Privacy #AdTracking #GoogleChrome #ThirdPartyCookies #OnlinePrivacy #DataCollection #UserControl #PrivacySettings #AdTech #BrowserPrivacy #DigitalPrivacy #UserConsent #PrivacySandbox #TrackingCookies #AdTargeting #PrivacyTools #DataProtection #UserChoice #BrowserSettings #PrivacyExtensions #UserData #OnlineSecurity #AdTransparency #UserRights #PrivacyControls #DataPrivacy #BrowserTracking