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This is about cookie banners on websites

There was another time I got into a very serious ontological discussion with a fairly senior engineer about what the difference was between taxes and fines and they didn’t understand there was a difference,” he said.

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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 10 hours ago

Some VPN providers offer a setting that makes it harder to analyze traffic patterns. They make every packet the same size and send them at regular intervals along with extra noise. It makes everything look uniform so that AI can't match your traffic to/from the VPN server with traffic between the VPN server and your web activity.

It might be overkill, and it adds latency and uses extra data. But for maximum paranoia, it's an option

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