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[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do not do this without (at bare minimum) a VPN or you're just letting them slurp up your data, which they will make way more off of.

[-] br3d@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Genuine question: what value does my telemetry contain to them if I've clicked their link maliciously? Isn't it more likely it helps give them a wrong idea of what people interested in Shell look like?

[-] BolexForSoup@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You'd be surprised at how good some groups at parsing this stuff. You're far better off just not letting them know who you are period. Whether you're "lying" about your click or not doesn't change the fact that they see all sorts of useful things about you.

It's pretty silly not to have a VPN up 95% of the time anyway now since VPN's are so lightweight now. I get 900+mbps on my fiber with proton up. A lot slower if doing secure core of course, but it's still usable in a pinch.

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