[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well yeah, they're just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don't recognize, it'll still work, but their approach will still block the big companies that can do the most harm with that data.

The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn't a reasonable thing to do by default.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

The fans of some streamer are not going to kill you.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they're 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

Sure, if she finds a lawyer who will work pro bono.

Even then, she and her son will be homeless for a long time before winning anything.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

They do, most of the time. For example if you upload an heic file from an iPhone to a file input on a website that doesn't accept heic files, it'll upload a jpeg.

Apple can't see or control all the different ways of transferring files, though, so in practice it still causes problems sometimes.

The strange thing is that some Android phones also save photos as heic files and make no attempt to convert them, so I still had to add logic to my websites to convert them myself.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google is buying your data, not selling it. They use it to make their ad platform more effective, and selling the data would just help their competitors.

The NSA does collect data from third parties like Google, but not just anyone can buy it from them.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

Avoiding slurs is good, but you're still claiming that her experience is impossible because you've never experienced the same thing.

[-] icydefiance@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

The irony here is so thick, it's absolutely incredible.

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