UnknowableNight
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UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verificationEnglish
0·2 days agoOr not just coding into it already verified so you DON’T have to do all these invasive things like ID scans?
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verificationEnglish
0·2 days agoOh no? I’m sure some people won’t code workarounds…!
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verificationEnglish
0·2 days agoLiterally how can they enforce this on Linux? It’s open-source, people just won’t choose those versions or edit that out of the code.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Should I subscribe to a data removal service (DeleteMe, Incogni, etc.)?English
0·2 days agoThis is a wonderful video.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Should I subscribe to a data removal service (DeleteMe, Incogni, etc.)?English
0·2 days agoNo, I would never trust them. General rule of thumb: don’t trust Youtube advertisements. They seem very sketchy to me. Why would these companies and data brokers willingly delete your data by just asking? Not to mention that it would instantly resurface in a million other areas. The best thing to do is to instead not give out that information in general, or not make it obvious who you are.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)English
0·2 days agoNo, no, but try to recognise and change some of your writing habits.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•AI Can Now Easily Unmask Your Secret Online Life (Even If You Use a Fake Name)English
0·2 days agoThe article barely mentions this, and I haven’t seen comments here mentioning it, but a huge factor in determining identities is one’s writing style. In fact, analyzing the way people speak and write is its own science (linguistic forensics) and is also used by law enforcement (though can realistically be done by anyone with OSINT and basic understanding of individual linguistic patterns.) Dead giveaways are especially if you consistently misspell a certain word or use a certain emoticon or uncommon phrase or word, it’s like a linguistic footprint. If Andy123 on Reddit and XxwhateverxX both spell appearance as appearence and both say booyah and both spell :) as (:, then it is much easier to tell that they may be the same person. This is something that you must be aware of, as well as giving out personal information like country of origin, amount of pets, place of work, etc.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric UpdateEnglish
0·6 days agoNo more privacy! Everyone knows everything about everyone everywhere! Woooo!
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•One billion identity records exposed in unsecured ID verification database | Biometric UpdateEnglish
0·6 days agoWho could have seen that coming?
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google accountEnglish
0·7 days agoI haven’t had a problem with cnvmp3. It worked last time that I tried to do it.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialOPto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine?English
0·8 days agoOhhh, thank you for the information! I’ll look into something like Waterfox then.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialOPto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine?English
0·8 days agoI don’t really see how that can be the case when Chromium is open-source, though I’m admittedly not very knowledgeable on this subject.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialOPto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Vivaldi browser and Qwant search engine?English
0·8 days agoI agree to not be using something that comes from Chrome, but Chromium is open-source, so it’s not like it’s actively benefiting Google, right? (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Proton has ties to Israel. What's a safe alternative?English
0·9 days agoHaving exit nodes for their VPN is not the same as collaborating with the government. There is no evidence that the Israeli government has access to any of their information, their servers are hosted in Switzerland.
UnknowableNight@piefed.socialto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•watching age-restricted videos from youtube without google accountEnglish
0·10 days agoCopy a link, paste into an mp4 converter (I use cnvmp3.com), watch from files




The wording is very vague, not saying exactly how, but with how everything globally is going, I doubt just typing an age is what they mean.