refalo

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes but I think you still need a unique fingerprint in order to tie that data to a single person... and there are much less people who use ad-blockers than those who don't, so to me it's an extra bit of identifying information; obviously this puts the privacy-conscious user in a difficult position and I don't know that there's a perfect answer.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't think it was meant exactly that literally. If you use online banking then of course you have to allow whatever they require for it to work. But for non-necessary services that have an account feature... any time you use those of course will have more of your information out there to sell and track.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

In the context of fingerprinting I disagree. The vast majority of the world population do NOT use an ad-blocker (supposedly maybe 15% do at most)... so having an adblocker can be used to narrow you down even more IMO. Many extensions can have this issue afaik, especially if it modifies the DOM.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Original title was "F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund's FOSS Sustainability Grant". Not trying to be tinfoily but I thought it would have been even more irresponsible to not make it clear where the money really comes from as I think most people aren't aware.

Either way, please do your own research and draw your own conclusions and I promise I have no intentional agenda in reporting this... besides transparency.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Please allow the ability to set a custom TURN server (with credentials!), either via the frontend or backend, because many people are behind CGNAT or some type of symmetrical NAT without any traversal/portforward capabilities, and have no other way to initiate p2p/direct connections.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 5 points 11 months ago
[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

hah, there's nowhere near enough infrastructure to handle that.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes however they have also had servers seized before... I think it's not unrealistic for some to believe they could be compromised after that.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, hindsight makes everyone look guilty.

[–] refalo@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

You mean the coward who sent fundraising messages while hiding inside the Capitol on Jan 6?

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