Amanda Unvarnished

ICYMI in my feed yesterday Mozilla Firefox has browser anti-fingerprinting built in, it’s just not enabled by default.

Browser fingerprinting is when 3rd parties use your computer’s characteristics such as which fonts you have installed, your type and number of CPUs, etc. to uniquely identify you to advertisers or other even less friendly sorts.

In Firefox type in About:config, click the warning then type in the search window: resist

Set
privacy.resistFingerprinting
to True.

#privacy

—@adwright

To anyone who needs or wants a hug goodnight right now, or just a general hug – here’s one 🫂💙
I know it’s virtual but, I hope you can feel it. Sending warm energy your way ❤️

—@skaly

A sudden realisation:
The reason Merlin lives backwards through time is so that he can drink his coffee before making it.
The smug bastard.

—@tigerfort

Concerned about TikTok accessing and selling personal information, and using it to manipulate you?

Wait until you hear about credit rating companies, HR companies, real estate verification companies, online mental health companies, direct to consumer DNA companies, the trackers on just about every news web site, and FB, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Snap, and Pinterest.

—@funnymonkey

NVDA 2023.1 is now available! New paragraph options, link destination & annotated web content keystrokes, new Braille tables, fixes for Kindle, Windows 11, Office, Chrome, Firefox, web, java and more! Read the full what’s new & download from: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1/ Note: This release breaks compatibility with add-ons made for NVDA 2022.4 and earlier. The majority of add-ons have been updated, but please check https://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/nvdacompat.en.html for the status of your favourite add-ons.

—@NVAccess

It seems like every person born before 1980 has a baby photo of them being bathed in a kitchen sink and I have a theory that most of it stopped when people got dishwashers and realized it was a much more convenient way to clean their children.

—@Alice