Angry_Autist (he/him)

they know your IP and user agent string, and now your lemmy ID.

Unless you are ridiculously security minded you already have google trackers perfectly fingerprinting you, so that’s all they need to have a 99.95% verification on a point of access, a purchasing history, and likely years of browsing patterns to analyze.

Fast forward 3 years to avoid elections our current fascist government declares martial law and anyone who says bad things about him is a felon. Google steps up smartly and says "My Father, please have a list of every lemmy’s userid and the last place they physically accessed the internet, plus years of cached sedition data by which to convict and execute them.

I hear you giggling. You won’t be giggling in 3 years.

So what you’re saying is you don’t know what a VPN is, gotcha.

Maybe stop using the word then.

The only person that knows the IP of my VPN is me because I built it and I am the only one who uses it, meaning my ISP doesn’t even know its a VPN, and all the traffic is encrypted so it doesn’t look any different than all the non-vpn cover traffic I create.

Not even the hosting service knows its a VPN, and in any case my host doesn’t keep logs of anything and is not subject to U.S. law

If I was using a public VPN service? Yah I’d be compromised because the access list of every public VPN is constantly being monitored and every time a new IP range is added it is discovered and disseminated within minutes.

So, tell me, I want to hear, how is it you think that I am being tracked. I’m genuinely curious.

Son I’ve been using mailinator since before you learned to type

They still track your data, they still sell your usage, in fact THAT IS THE ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL FOR DISPOSABLE EMAILS

It really staggers me how ignorant everyone in this thread seems to be about basic security practices

Incorrect.

Nobody has my IP, self-hosted vpn

My host string changes automatically every 3 minutes, and none of them report my actual system status

Every cookie and cache is purged on close except for a few whitelisted sites, and I regularly run diff scans for evercookies

So yes, it is possible, and is relatively easy to do

So because I posted cybersecurity standard practices, I don’t understand privacy.

Please explain your logic

that now has your IP address and your host string, as well as matching your ID to any sales trackers you happen to have, basically all you need to uniquely identify a user across sessions

Usually sites will blacklist all temp providers, lemmy doesn’t seem to care. The only reason we don’t look overrun with bots now is that they’ve gotten a lot better and appearing human in the last year

But yeah, mods and admins only give lip service to dealing with bots, as per usual

You mean those free email accounts that actively scrape your emails for data?

Is everybody here just on crazy pills today?

Then you don’t understand privacy

Holy fucking free labor Batman!

Yeah no, I’m not spending the next two hours of my life detailing my ethical framework to you because it isn’t all that different from anyone else.

neither are they

70% of my blocklist comes from that instance, they are not good people

you wanna switch from a rusty razor to a rusty radioactive razor? Odd choice

you mention AI moderation and a healthy community in the same motherfucking paragraph?

And nothing of value was lost

Why? Then I’d just be a technologically dependent parapalegic who’s brain is now subject to malware and EULA changes.

No thanks