Good grief did I seriously misread June as July when I read about it? ... Hoooly shit I did... wow.
If you mean the browser extension, my recommended setup would probably be:
That combo covers the extension side of things. Something like DecentralEyes may also be useful, but I've had mixed results when I tried it years back. EFF's Privacy Badger also does some interesting stuff and gives you the ability to fully block cookies/etc. but it's a weird one to deal with so I'm not sure how much I'd actually recommend it.
Ideally all used on a hardened browser like LibreWolf, with a custom DNS like one of Mullvad's various options, and a VPN. Beyond that, using TOR?... but that's not really designed for ad/tracker blocking and is a whole different privacy concept.
Agreed. The chaos is just for kicks and PR so the pundits and politicians can claim with a straight face that he said he wouldn't. No doubt on my end that he ultimately intends to do it.
~~So I guess they nixed the plan to delay it? Obviously not a complaint, but surprised nonetheless.~~ edit: I got pulled into a timewarp I swear
CNBC changed the title and article contents. Version prior to the change: https://web.archive.org/web/20250716153251/https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/trump-powell-fed-fire.html
Though if you read through either version it's a chaotic bag of both denying and confirming. Ultimately seems like he told a room of Republicans he would, then denied he would after? So who knows.
It's also implemented as an actual feature rather than purely marketing fluff though, so the deception/ineptness goes further than just being an ad in my opinion. It clearly works for certain use-cases (e.g. disconnect the VPN and try to connect somewhere via browser or ping), but definitely not in the absolute way it (and particularly the "Advanced" setting) implies.
May I add a post-shoutout shoutout for the ones that have >1KB worth of custom encoded data in the URL when the actual tracking number is only ~10 digits (cough8bitdocough)? 'Cause those aren't shady at all.
And if it does then you just didn't worry enough, or the right way, or it was the worry's divine plan. Have you accepted worry into your heart? If you have a moment I have some worrying literature here...
Good to know! I've avoided docker for years, but if there was a time to learn now would be it.
Iduno how we both managed to miss that part over all these years. Neither of us are new to any of this and we're both privacy fanatics... but somehow it slipped through the cracks. Enough tech-shame for a lifetime, condensed and consumed in a singular moment.
For the record the "Advanced" killswitch mode is what was used, so their assumption was that nothing would be able to leak and would, in worst case scenarios, just not connect at all. Which was definitely not the case.
Yes. That. It's certainly not that my brain is perfectly smooth and completely hollow. That would just be ridiculous.