Posted on 04/17/2021 7:42:48 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
So what happens to all the data the’ve collected on you for the lat 30 yrs?
No need for a person to do the "surveillance".
It is all automated, and much closer to a "social score" than criminal surveillance.
Example:
There he is! on freerepublic again! How many hours this month!!
There, he looked at a gun article four times this month! Very unsocial activity.
Link to his phone location data.
He visited a Christian church (not an "acceptable" one either) three times this month.
How much money is he taking from the state with his pension?
Look! he disparaged the LBGQT agenda, again.
The score is reaching a point, a human may want to look.
Perhaps his online services need an "adjustment".
Firefox - great little browser.
I’ll answer that for you. It is pretty popular now so there are no flags. But... Host servers are starting to use a 3rd party security ware called “imunify 360”. This service has a prejudice against 9 out of 10 random exit nodes coming from the TOR blockchain. So it forces you to do a google recaptcha verification.
Well at that point you are hooked right back into google again. And I am starting to suspect that the imunify 360 is just detecting that the browser is TOR and throwing this up because it is TOR. But for sites that do not have that particular service it is great.
For anyone who wants to try it out and remain completely anonymous and isolated I highly recommend purchasing a 64 gig USB stick and installing “Tails” to it. The Tails is a “portable” linux OS/TOR browser kit that runs completely isolated on it’s own from just the stick aside from your PC and native OS. And it shares nothing, and it remembers nothing unless you choose to let it. It dumps everything as soon as it is shut down.
Tested to work well with the Free Republic and all sites that do not have imunify 360. Great option for just surfing.
ping for later
I would no longer call Firefox a “privacy browser”. Any browser that want you to sign in is not a privacy browser, not to mention that they support cancel culture. I would not be surprised to learn that their pronouncements about privacy are a ruse to get you to lower your guard. They are not to be trusted.
I won’t use reCaptcha on any of my sites either. I use a honey pot and simple math question type captcha.
Question Captchas work great. I put them on my public “contact” form also.
The article details on Firefox mentions their concern about Mozilla advocating for Internet censorhip, but stated their belief that Firefox is still a good privacy browser.
As for me and my house, Firefox Delenda Est!
I am a Brave user. It works fine and they seem to be truly committed to privacy and free speech. I used Firefox and it’s predecessors for almost 2 decades. I was not happy about the Brendan Eich affair, but I still stuck with them. It was when they started trying to get you to put your links in the Pocket thing that I started wondering what the hell was going on. IMHO, if they were truly privacy focused it would not even cross their minds to ask you to log into anything and expose yourself. But, that’s just me. FWIW, Firefox is probably still better than Chrome or Edge. You can do a lot worse, that’s for sure!
Thanks to ShadowAce for the ping!
It's not likely to be a human.
AIs never get bored, never sleep, and never forget or forgive.
I dumped FF and uninstalled it when Mozilla’s CEO started discussing ways to scrub pro-Trump thought from the Internet.
MeWe, unfortunately, is one of the social media sites doing that. It won’t play well with Pale Moon anymore, so I have to go to Edge to use it.
Same with me. My lifestyle would put the average Block Captain to sleep.
It is not humans that spy on you it is AI because humans could never keep up.
Point taken and I get it.
But - and big but it is - the mere fact that you read and post to FR - is undoubtedly something that our Stasi would want to kniw and track.
Everyone on this site is a subversive.
What is going to happen is the there will be a list of “problematic websites” out there and web browsers will be expected to “voluntarily” refuse to load those sites. Browsers that do not comply will be banned by Google and Apple. There will of course be ways to get around it, but >95% of people will not be tech savvy enough to do it. Also, Microsoft is moving as quickly as it can to an app store only model, so most Windows users will be affected just like Android and IOS. In order to see the complete internet, you will need to be a geek and/or a Linux user.
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