In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • CassiniWarden@infosec.pubEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    Remind me of that scene in The Dark Knight when Lucius Fox has all the screens with all the data from every smartphone around.

    • lemmyvore@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The only way I’ll use Facebook nowadays is in a browser sandbox. And before you ask, it’s pretty much Events and Marketplace nowadays; the main feed is unusable and horrifying nowadays, and everybody I know has moved on from Messenger.

      Hermit browser does a good job of sandboxing random apps like that. Wish it had more than 5 sandboxes though, it severely limits its usability.

      • CassiniWarden@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Everyone I know pretty much uses fb messenger exclusively, it’s the only reason I still have it. If there was a reliable way to hook into messenger from another app I’d switch in a second, but still the reliance on messenger is there.

      • tool@r.rosettast0ned.comEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Run it in a Sandboxie sandbox. It can run any application in a Sandbox.

        Or just spin up a lightweight VM. Could even run it in a Docker container.