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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon?
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 17:13:49
Message-Id: 5F8E00EA-93BA-4689-A515-E2F265C168E5@antarean.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon? by tuxic@posteo.de
1 On 22 October 2017 18:55:36 GMT+02:00, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
2 >On 10/22 06:39, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> On 22/10/2017 16:27, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
4 >> > On 10/22 01:58, J. Roeleveld wrote:
5 >> >> On 22 October 2017 10:50:01 GMT+02:00, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:
6 >> >>> Hi,
7 >> >>>
8 >> >>> for its invasive nature and its data gathering I really dont like
9 >> >>> facebook.
10 >> >>>
11 >> >>> And now it seems that I cant with out it:
12 >> >>> There is a HUGE user group for the Creality CR-10 3D printer
13 >there
14 >> >>> and veryone and everything is referencing it.
15 >> >>>
16 >> >>> My question is:
17 >> >>> Are there ways (and which ones) to become member of facebook
18 >> >>> just to read and write to this user grout (like a mailinglist)
19 >> >>> and keep the impact on privacy an personal fingerprinting as
20 >> >>> small as ever possible?
21 >> >>>
22 >> >>> Every help is very appreciated!
23 >> >>> Cheers
24 >> >>> Meino
25 >> >>
26 >> >> Run a dedicated browser in a dedicated user account. This should
27 >isolate any tracking cookies from going into your main account.
28 >> >>
29 >> >> --
30 >> >> Joost
31 >> >> --
32 >> >> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
33 >brevity.
34 >> >>
35 >> >
36 >> > Hi Joost,
37 >> >
38 >> > thanks for your help.
39 >> >
40 >> > Does "dedicated browser" means "Firefox -NewInstance -P
41 >Facebookprofle" or
42 >> > does it mean "another browser than the installed firefox" ?
43 >>
44 >>
45 >> The latter.
46 >>
47 >> Unless you are seriously paranoid and the NSA really is out to get
48 >you,
49 >> then use the former and more. But in that case you have much bigger
50 >> problems than wondering if the spammers will find you from facebook
51 >>
52 >> --
53 >> Alan McKinnon
54 >> alan.mckinnon@×××××.com
55 >>
56 >>
57 >
58 >Hi Alan,
59 >
60 >thanks a lot. No ... I am not interesting enough to be a target for the
61 >NSA and such...but...wait! Yesterday at 5:08 PM I have had a bit of an
62 >own opinion...
63 >
64 >Ok, you convinced me...tommorrow I will get a dedicated PC in a secyre
65 >house... ;)
66 >
67 >More seriously:
68 >Any browser you can recommend beside Firefox?
69 >Or is it more a "take one" thing?
70 >
71 >Cheers
72 >Meino
73
74 Take any.
75 If you run it from a seperate account (ssh -Y facebookuser@localhost ) you can stay with firefox. Just keep that one for facebook only.
76
77 --
78 Joost
79 --
80 Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.