Your initial comment implied that the default firewall rules of blocking all inbound connections was sufficient. Since you’re the one who’s making big claims I was hoping you would enlighten us with those firewall rules of yours.

Many attack vectors happen over your outbound connections. How would a router protect you against those?

Chances are the exchange was still more productive than with the real one.

The only way for this comment to be more German would be if it came laminated.

The EFF provides pretty sound advice, see the 2nd link in my initial comment.

One way of helping would be to tell people how to mitigate it. Telling them it’s impossible does the exact opposite.

They say it here, but I disagree. Fingerprinting is difficult to prevent but not impossible. Same thing as with malware: You’ll never be 100% protected from malware, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take precautions against it, does it?

Here’s one way of testing how unique your fingerprint is.

Booting a live USB and reinstalling GRUB as follows has saved my butt in the past. Obviously replace the /dev/sdXY paths with your own. Further adjustments might be needed depending on your system.

# mount root partition:
sudo mount /dev/sdXY2 /mnt
# mount boot partition (if there is any)
sudo mount /dev/sdXY3 /mnt/boot
# mount efi partition (if there is any)
sudo mount /dev/sdXY1 /mnt/boot/efi
# mount other partitions:
for dir in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /run; do sudo mount --bind $dir /mnt$dir; done  
# chroot into mounted system:
sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash -i 
# reinstall grub:
grub-install 
# rebuild grub.cfg:
update-grub 
# rebuild initramfs (not sure if necessary):
update-initramfs -u
# sync, exit chroot, reboot:
sync
exit
sudo reboot

As long as you ignore my simple yes or no question made in good faith I’m not interested in your concepts.

Great, we agree that these companies aren’t profiting off of monthly subscriptions but data collection instead. Allow me to rewind:

@[email protected] said:

How about companies have to pay a monthly subscription fee for our data.

A funny comment implying the companies are making unfairly high profits off of their users’ data. Your reply:

They do if you’re using their service without paying for it.

You strike me as someone who understands that it’s impossible to use such services without paying with data. So an appropriate response would be “No, they don’t”. Agreed?

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If I were to state the obvious and acknowledge that running a website costs money, would you in return stop dodging my initial point too?

You’re free to not use services that use this business model.

Let’s not act as if this prevents them from collecting my data anyway.

My point was that providing a service free of charge means the company pays the costs of the service. Some companies offset this by collecting data and providing ads.

So you agree that these companies earn money despite me not paying them a subscription. Going back to my initial point: Do they lose money if I use their service without paying for it? Answer: No, they don’t. Wasn’t so hard, was it?

You’re implying that this is about small businesses. Big corporations don’t compare with a gas station. They make ridiculously large amounts of money off of ignorance, apathy, corruption, or us being too distracted by struggling to survive.

So do they or do they not lose money if I use their service without paying for it?

No, they don’t. You give them data by using their service. They then earn money with that data.

Presumably they didn’t like how you used the meme format. Surprise Pikachu is usually about someone who’s surprised by something particularly predictable and obvious.

Just bin that Football Pitch Gnome already

Welcome to Lemmy :), you’ll fit right in lmao

Nice specs, nice setup. You might want to add another rainbow sticker or two, just in case :p