@nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
This has to be staged... no way someone would actually get that many checks. Still hilarious

@alyx @nosleep
> no way someone would actually get that many checks
I do, use the Tor browser.

@mangeurdenuage @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
>Tor
You do realize Tor is barely anything more than a meme now, right? Like, it doesn't actually protect you properly. Either do a decent VPN, or nothing. Tor doesn't help, and it's gonna constantly fuck you up with any website login.

@alyx @nosleep
>a decent VPN
>decent
That's a question of trust and you can't trust merchants. The best VPN you can have is one that you make yourself with a vps because at least you configured it but you can't trust the host to not snoop on you either.

>Tor doesn't help,
Tor gives you the same fingerprint as all the other tor browser thus blending in, VPNs do not in anyway do that.
Same with tails GNU/linux

>and it's gonna constantly fuck you up with any website login.
That is not Tor's fault but webdev faggots using google recaptcha while there are other solutions.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190615084741/https://kevv.net/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/

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@mangeurdenuage @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
Who gives a fuck about browser fingerprint when it's a known fact that your IP can still be discovered and tracked in the Tor network. The entire thing that Tor was supposed to be able to protect against, it literally can't. Browser fingerprint doesn't directly lead to your physical location or your real identity. IP does. You need to figure out your priorities if you actually care about this.

Yes, finding a trustworthy VPN is not an easy task. But it's a whole lot more worthy and useful than who knows how much time you waste on captchas.

@alyx @nosleep
>it's a known fact that your IP can still be discovered and tracked in the Tor network.
It's a known fact that the way the TCP/IP protocols were built was for efficiency and not anonymity.
Nothing is 100% safe one any system, you can only mitigate the problems.

>Browser fingerprint doesn't directly lead to your physical location or your real identity
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=eQ2OZKitRwc
https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8414-corporate_surveillance_digital_tracking_big_data_privacy
https://media.libreplanet.org/mgoblin_media/media_entries/1529/144_7_gerwith.webm

@mangeurdenuage @nosleep@neckbeard.xyz
Bro, I don't have 3 hours to watch some overly long lectures. Either TL;DR or just...

I'm sure you can eventually match browser fingerprints across different sites, and find someone's Facebook or whatever, but IP is probably still faster, especially for governments, who people usually want to avoid most when they start becoming paranoid.

@alyx @nosleep
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lightbeam-3-0/
All of what I shared are already TL;DR.
Either you take time or not that up's to you but please don't spread information that does not reflect actual reality.
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