On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 04:38:54AM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-03-12 at 03:27, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 11:11:16PM -0800, Weaver wrote: > > >> I have never had a Facebook account and never will. > > > We (three?) are the invisible Internet Underground \o/ > > > > [psst. don't tell anyone] > > > > ;-) > > I can go one better than that. > > Unless my memory is failing me, I have only ever visited facebook.com > once in my life - and that was a mistake, I clicked on a link to > something that looked interesting without first checking the target domain. > > I decided long, long ago (sometime in the first half of the first decade > of this century, IIRC) that I didn't trust Facebook [...]
More or less what I do. I do sometimes visit Facebook, but with a highly restricted browser profile: no javascript [1], no cookies. Most of the FB page doesn't work properly, but it's mostly enough to get the info I wanted. Twitter? I go to a proxy, nitter [2]. Most of the things out there I do with my restricted browser profile. If a page doesn't work, I just assume they don't want to play with me. And oh, some of the funny google services are in my /etc/hosts, pointing to 127.0.0.1 No, it ain't paranoia. If "they" [TM] want to get me, they just smash down my door and get me, let's face it. Call it a sociological experiment: I want to know how much life there is beyond surveillance capitalism :) Cheers [1] Oh, Firefox, I hate thou: why have you made so hard to /just disable/ Javascript? Is this a Dark Pattern or what? (yeah, yeah: the details of /that/ would fill yet another discussion, I fear :) [2] https://nitter.cc/about - t
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