If you use #Bluesky be sure to install a tracker blocker.
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@3x10to8mps @vasyasovari @BlurryBitsPhoto
What about thr duckduckgo browser as an iPhone alternative?
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@stux @MagentaRocks @BlurryBitsPhoto
Right?! Leave it there for a while and it will block hundreds.
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@mastodonmigration @MagentaRocks @BlurryBitsPhoto I wonder if this has to do with feed loading via external sources maybe..
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@MagentaRocks @mastodonmigration @BlurryBitsPhoto
While we're at it..
mstdn.social after 246947 hours open or so
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@stux @MagentaRocks @BlurryBitsPhoto
That one seems better
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Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars:replied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration @mrose @herhandsmyhands except with Brave, you're supporting a creator who is a bigot
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Octavia con Amore :pink_moon_and_stars: last edited by
@OctaviaConAmore @mrose @herhandsmyhands
Good reason not to use Brave then.
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Dragon-sided Dreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration @mrose @herhandsmyhands sorry, FireFox is NOT a privacy-respecting browser!
This team rips all the tracking and adware to distribute the browser FireFox was SUPPOSED to be
(Desktop only tho)
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Dragon-sided D last edited by
@dragonsidedd @mrose @herhandsmyhands
Thanks for the recommendation
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@mastodonmigration It's not real. It resolves to 0.0.0.0 and ::, which is the wildcard address. It's a misconfiguration left in the production version from the development version. In any case, it's not a real site, and resolves to no server.
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Blurry Bits Photographyreplied to Mastodon Migration last edited by
@mastodonmigration to these 'oh it's just analytics' types -
User behaviour is a fucking gold mine. Stop pretending it isn't.The data collection is equally valuable whether its Doubleclick scraping it, or its bluesky. If anything they are being shrewd with their 'product' and likely to profit more from it.
Yeah, now we dont get to see who the buyers of said analytics are. State actors? Religious Groups? Political interests?
Theres no rational reason for this aggressive tracking on ALL users
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On my iPhone I use DuckDuckGo or Startpage. I also have a DNS ad blocker and Proton VPN.
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@ElisabethK @mastodonmigration @BlurryBitsPhoto Thanks. I've never heard of Startpage. Is it a browser alternative? And what DNS ad blocker do you use? I appreciate the recs!
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Startpage is located in the Netherlands and is based on the European Union's data protection regulation. I use DNSforge.de as an ad blocker.
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@ElisabethK @3x10to8mps @BlurryBitsPhoto
Very cool! Thank you!
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Thanks for the reply. Not very reassuring that you think it is some sort of oversight. In any case, still prefer not to be tracked.
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Mastodon Migrationreplied to Blurry Bits Photography last edited by [email protected]
Boosting this reply to the 'just analytics' comments here, because this does seem like a valid point.
It seems like some people are saying that these trackers are no big deal because they just go back to Bluesky. But why would you want Bluesky collecting so much information on you? You insist it is just for 'development purposes', but what if it is not? What if it is used to build out a profile on you you or something?
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Bsky: 0 third party trackers
mastodon.social: 2 third party trackers
mastodon.online: 1 third party tracker
mastodon.world: 4 third party trackers
mas.to: 2 third party trackers
mstdn.social: 3 third party trackersI don't think any of them are a serious problem, but let's be realistic here.
