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[–] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

I already use several Firefox forks for different purposes, and all of them are reasonably resistant to fingerprinting. I also have a special container for all the corpo trash I have to deal with. When I click a random news articles on Lemmy, those sites are opened in a different container and their creepy cookies get deleted as soon as I close the tab.

I'm doing all of this out of of philosophical reasons. It's also pretty easy to set up, and there are hardly any downsides. Disabling java script is something I have tried too, but it did come with all sorts of severe downsides, so that's where I had to draw the line.

Regardless, I still find the idea of a privacy respecting email appealing. Philosophical reasons again... Recently, I also made a quick and dirty risk assessment about the potential risks, and I still didn't see an urgent need to mitigate them. The practical side of it still requires a bit more reading before I can justify an ongoing expense like this. Naturally, the email provider would have to be EU based.