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But did they survive fine?

The worst thing about that printer tracking is that we only learned about it around 20 years after they started implementing it. It's been another 20 years, imagine what they're doing now.

Cameras generally have barely noticeable, but uniquely identifiable, defects that will consistently affect pictures. So if you post a photo on your personal Social Media, and then you post a photo from the same camera on Hexbear, those two things could be connected. Just because it can happen doesn't mean it's practical, though.

I have no idea if this is what's been used with the Harry Potter thing.

I was never a Reddit poster, and I didn't find Lemmy from Reddit (chapotraphouse was long gone when I joined), so it really wasn't that hard.

I use Redlib occasionally to read Reddit posts, sometimes I need to find obscure things real humans have talked about. You could try setting up Libredirect so you can only see the Redlib version of Reddit (no posting, less algorithm, no interactions, and sometimes it goes down so you're forced to take a break).

It is a bit of an obscure situation, but you know how some places use RFID identity cards to do authentication, including to do stuff like let you into a building? Well imagine if it got replaced with mobile-first phone based RFID.

I spent more than a year running Arch Linux on the Pinephone. I was surviving, but honestly not thriving, there's so much of modern life that unfortunately requires "real" phones.

Pox upon ye that requires mobile wallet RFID to open doors.

I drive a car that cannot be easily tracked (has no electronics, outside a radio),

Unfortunately, most road cameras in the US are owned and operated by private companies who are perfectly welling to sell that data in real time. Your license plate is very easy to read, and it's a number that's uniquely identifying. If police want to use it in courts they usually need to prove you're actually the driver, but if it's an entity not really concerned with that it'll do a great job tracking you. I try to bike wherever I can, they generally don't have any personally identifying information.

YouTube is my privacy vice, I admit.

Have you heard of Invidious? Or the Duck Player? You can use YouTube without giving YouTube your data, though it might not work quite as well.

More privacy is better than less privacy.

I do a lot personally to increase my own privacy, from running GrapheneOS (usually with airplane mode on, which actually fully disables cellular (I used an RTL-SDR to check, and nothing with my IMEI was broadcasting)), to not using social media (besides Lemmy, I guess), to running Arch Linux w/ LibreFox as my primary browser, to not using Amazon, to getting my friends and family to use Signal as our primary means of communication.

But letting privacy be a personal thing just means that the vast majority of people will have their privacy completely compromised, and that it'll be very easy for privacy-concious people to slip up. Privacy should be a right, not a privilege, and the only way to do that is to go to the source: explicitly targeting, sabotaging, and campaigning against data brokers and large private companies that collect peoples data. Until we force them to stop, there is no privacy, just the illusion of privacy.

better than posting the photos of your birthday on Instagram

That'll protect your data from random stalkers or smaller companies, but Palantir has so many data brokers and the cooperation of the government that you can't function in society without giving them data.

The tracks in Ticket to Ride do something similar. idk the root cause though

Happy to be of help!

Second Thought even did at least one AMA on Lemmy, through Hexbear. JT's read words I've written, and he's written words in reply!

He used to be one of those guys that breadtube dunked on a lot, but he wasn't as big as Shapiro or Crowder. People used to edit his face small, and make fun of him. He had a few million youtuber subscribers, but a few million less than the other big names on conservative youtube. For context, the largest communist channel on youtube is Second Thought with 1.8 million subscribers, he had more than double that.