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    7 months ago

    Do you have a nice copy pasta I can send?

    I also suggest people to post the list of email addresses they gather so we can paste that into our email clients: email1@email.com, email2@email.com, etc I’ve done this in previous battles against these authoritarian proposals and it makes it easier.



  • Look at it this way:

    When visiting LinkedIn your browser connects to shittyadnetwork.com. It isn’t tracking you yet so it sets a cookie with a unique identifier. Then when you go to Spotify and it makes your browser connect to shittyadnetwork.com too, it will pass that cookie, allowing the ad network to link you to both LinkedIn and Spotify.

    It gets far more crazier though. There’s methods to fingerprint you and your device so that even if you clear cookies, it can still accurately identify you. They also track IPs so if you clear cookies and they consider a specific request to be you, they’ll just link you back to your original tracking profile. If a whole website links to an ad network, and most of them do, the ad network can track whatever pages you visit on the website and categorize you because of that. Hell, the websites sometimes even supply that data directly to the ad network themselves.

    Solution:

    • Block ads
    • Block trackers
    • Use a cookie whitelist (where you have to allow a website to store a permanent cookie)
    • Use anti-fingerprint measures
    • Use email aliases
    • Use a VPN
    • Continuously speak up against this privacy invading tracking bullshit


  • Like, you go to your computer and start working on…what?

    Most of my work goes into an opensource game.

    what people do especially when starting out.

    Make some apps for yourself. You’ll probably not use them, or even share them, but it’s a good thing to have a vision of what you want to make.

    I just want to learn it to know it.

    Being a good programmer takes ages. And even then you’ll probably only know a handful of languages and focus on specific branches. If you just want to know it, you’ll lose a lot of interest pretty soon because sometimes it takes days to fix something and you really need to be able to push trough those rough patches and that’s hard without a goal. Imagine trying to become good at woodworking without actually making furniture.

    But im not sure how to apply it to anything realistic.

    A lot of stuff already has apps for it. And a lot of things are being worked on. People saw the money and a lot of people jumped on the wagon.

    The most realistic thing one can do with programming is to make something that does exactly what they want. And that can even be something small. Like learning how to write scripts that automate simple tasks. I suggest high level languages such as Python, PHP, C# or Java to get going. And only look at low level languages such as C, C++, or Rust when you actually start to understand it.