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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by streetfestival@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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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[-] No1@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I run all my stuff in a private tab nowadays. And nuke all cookies etc each session.

Also, make sure I have anti-fingerprinting enabled.

With a VPN.

The only annoying thing is I get a few texts/emails saying "A new device just accessed your account. Was it you?". Yes, yes it was. And I'm not relying on a cookie or fingerprinting for security.

[-] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

One of the most overlooked, underused, and still hasn't seen production release privacy settings is the ability to partition, or not decorate visited links.

In Firefox based in about:config


layout.css.visited_links_enabled    

false

In chromium based in chrome://flags

Partition the Visited Link Database, including 'self-links'

Enabled
[-] FEIN@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

so search engines like google can't see what sites you've visited anymore. genius, never occurred to me that they could track that. thanks for the tip

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

They can track very well with that.

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