When I announced I would be closing my communities earlier this year, a curious thing happened: a surprising number of regulars replied with some variation of “I think this is my exit.” While some were specifically talking about Matrix, claiming that mine was the only room they were really active in and therefore they saw no...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/21465918...
Visa is rolling out new technology that will allow the payments giant to share more information about customers' preferences [non-paywalled source] based on their shopping history with retailers as it seeks to remain a top player in the competitive e-commerce space. From a report:...
I didn't know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.
hey mah doods...
It has finally happened...not surprised though.
It's not quite enough for me, personally, but this is a small step in the right direction....
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Why most services that want to protect user privacy. Also those on privacyguides, don't have anonymous payment methods like cryptocurrencies? I pay for a few such services like email or cloud etc. but I don't know if it makes sense if my bank knows I'm using it anyway so they can sell that info to advertisers, gov, etc. In EU...
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/25062075
I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how...
I discovered this recently, I think it's a fork of Lineage? Some stuff they list is already part of Lineage but some seems extra...
Title says it all--a fellow bricoleur just turned me on to the No Trace Project and I'm curious to know if anyone else here has looked into it and the quality of the information therein. Thanks in advance!
I miss the days of VHS and DVD shelfs in homes, for example. If you bought the tapes and had them in your home, no corporate entity could alter those tapes without your consent, monitor how many times you watch them, sell your data to whomever they please without your knowledge, roll out new mandatory conditions to a 'user...
Is it just me or do Instagram videos loaded via Pixwox always buffer for you too?
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/13793778...
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Happy Net Box is an experimental internet social experience based on the arcane and near-forgotten retro internet protocol known as FINGER....
This is probably not the right community but I haven't found a better one....
I have been pro privacy and anti data harvesting for many years now, however it is becoming increasingly more difficult staying off some platforms. Mostly Meta....
