I’m not too sure, maybe? If the tracking pixel is on a domain known to serve ads or trackers, it might, but if it’s on a legitimate domain (e.g. your ISP’s) I don’t think it can, since you’d have to have added the ISP’s domain to the Pi-hole blacklist
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Email aliasing services, which are genuinely good services to use, strip those pixels from inbound emails. At least Firefox Relay, Addy and SimpleLogin do
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Games@lemmy.world•As No Man's Sky arrives on mobile, Hello Games celebrates with a spooky update for all that includes delivery missions and "seamless" interstellar travelEnglish
26·16 days agoprobably being able to go from star system to star system without having to open and use the stellar map and click on the star you want to warp to
edit: yeah
The studio has also added what it calls “seamless warping”, meaning you can just lock onto the brightest star in the sky and travel straight there without visiting the galactic map.
Read somewhere that sometimes it’s best to ask for obfuscation of personal info rather than straight up removal, as a middle ground you can both agree on, e.g. truncating your name and surname in your reviews.
If you’re not in a country with strong personal information rights, try that next; if you are, you may need to contact your local data protection authority to file a complaint
crow@leminal.spaceto
Linux Gaming@lemmy.world•Couple questions about gaming on LinuxEnglish
6·2 months agoIf you play through Steam, since using Proton is enabled by default, you just need to install a game.
Sometimes you have to go into the game’s Steam settings and manually pick a different Proton version if the game is old (usually an older version) or if the game is very new (Proton Experimental or gloriouseggroll’s fork of Proton, ProtonGE, this one being a manual install from gloriouseggroll’s GitHub), and you can find user reports on ProtonDB on what version other users have been using;
if you use Steam and GoG or other sources with no launcher, the main third party game launchers (Lutris, Heroic) use UMU by default, which means they leverage Steam’s Proton to install and play games, basically doing what Steam does, just outside of the Steam app, therefore the experience there is the same as Steam.
This means that you can use most “normal” distros regardless of what they’re marketed for. I’ve played games the same way on PoP! OS and EndeavourOS, simply plug and play (barring some edge cases).
Native, Flatpak or other doesn’t really matter for the most part, though native is usually the most straightforward and hassle-free.
tldr: install any standard distro you like and Steam + alternate launcher and you’ll find out that the gaming experience is almost completely plug-and-play
nobody’s personal device hygiene is perfect
fair point. guess I’ll try to understand a bit better how everything works before making a decision
side note: I like how in this thread we have a crow, a f3nyx and a raccoon lol
Interesting, how useful is it if I’m always behind a VPN and browse privately (hardened browser, ad blocker, no-script, never logged in etc.)?
May be wrong but the way I see it it doesn’t help me much?
I installed it by adding their repo to F-droid and it worked, try that
IronFox from here:
https://github.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox
desktop should “leak” more or less the same data, I think
Weird, my Fennec must’ve had additional configurations I forgot about since it didn’t give out that info. I uninstalled it for IronFox so I can’t check it! I mentioned LibreWolf but that’s on desktop, so no gyro info there
I have no answer to your question, but if you’re looking for alternatives, hardened Firefox forks such as LibreWolf, Fennec, IronFox etc all have varying degrees of anti-fingerprinting features. I know for sure that Fennec withholds battery and gyro data, but gives timezone data, while IronFoxcan spoof the latter with a toggle and reports a spoofed screen size
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•A web page that shows you everything the browser told it
21·6 months agoThanks for sharing, I was already using a decent anti-fingerprinting browser (Fennec) but the fact that it gave away my timezone made me research a bit more and I’m now on IronFox, which has a toggle to spoof it, and reports a fake screen resolution. Great! I’m now unique on coveryourtracks though
do you even have the right of not being recorded while outdoors? more precisely, one thing is holding a camera towards one person and one person only, following their every move, another is shooting a video while walking down the street, otherwise no one could ever even take a photo of a square as long as there’s someone, for example