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Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live (uk.pcmag.com)
submitted 2 days ago* by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.

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[–] 16 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Enjoy not being able to use your bank, major websites, email, online shopping, pay utility bills, do basic and required civic functions online (that require alternatives of driving long distances and/or waiting on the phone for long periods of time), etc because your open source operating system doesn't pass the attestation check.

Maybe not long after Google, Cloudflare and others will just block you behind anti-bot defenses because you don't pass such a check and only bots would not pass such a check.

Hiding on Linux is not a solution to a legal problem. It's at best punting.

This stuff is either defeated or you'll enjoy living as a hermit cut off from society with your perfectly private, perfectly offline computer.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    If general computers are outlawed, only outlaws will have general computers.

    I use an open source browser with a hardware TAN generator for banking. I pay with an NFC card. All the websites I care about work with open standards. Fuck the rest. I am perfectly able to run my own email servers. If online shopping requres proprietary bullshit they lose me as a customer. My bills are direct debit. No, there are no basic and requred civic functions that must happen online. I simply walk or go there to do that in person.

    I am already frequently blocked by Cloudflare because I use an always on VPN and only open source tooling. I simply cease to use such services.

    You are correct that the proper solution to fascism is to go away or to kill them.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago*

    Besides, less facebook means more sanity. Nothing real happens in 99% of cyberspace.

    Edit: so, my bank freaks out if I vpn through Santiago, lemmy.world freaks out if I vpn through Brussels.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    What I'm about to say, I say only as an alternative in conjunction with fighting legislatively: It's time many of us alter our behaviors to accommodate these crackdowns. Not as a matter of subservience, please don't think I mean it that way, but as a matter of practicality and survival. Make cash withdrawals when possible to pay for goods and services. Transition back to paper bills. Separate from computers where you can, while also understanding that the places you can't, you're just going to have to deal with the bullshit. Resist where practical, if only for your own sanity.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    Well said. A lot of the freedoms we enjoy are a use it or lose it scenario. For example a business is more likely to stop accepting cash if only 1% of their customers use it, so I still use it even though I would often prefer my card.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago*

    That does sound enjoyable. I wouldn't consider that a hermit though, quite the opposite. Going out in my own neighborhood and doing things sounds much better than all that other crap. That is actually being part of society.

    I am not sure this is the negative you think it is. If my electric company and bank wont give my an avenue to simply pay bills (I hate online bill pay already) and I don't have to spend hours trying to talk to an AI chat bot online for costumer support, I am not sure I care that much.

    If my bank is uninterested in serving me then maybe I need to change banks. Fuck them. I know you are going to say they will all be this way. Ok set up my own, I have gotten around this bullshit before.

    I already to deal with a lot of this. I am not allowed to interact with a lot of places due to region bullshit when I am working remotely in various countries. It is already annoying.

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