And what about the person the thieves sells it to?

It’s not worthless but it’s on only an indication, an example.

Isn’t the score change similar to the one you have when toggling Apple safebrowsing? (whatever that is)

A probable explanation is that your VPN client is somehow changing some of your browser settings. The VPN client, not the VPN itself.

Just check the detailed results to see what’s changed between the two. Whatever it is it could be changed manually, it’s does not require a VPN to change. But you probably don’t want to change it because your score with a VPN is worse than without.

But this has nothing to do with a VPN being the best or the worse.

That’s side effects, the difference is irrelevant anyway.

I insist because I think it’s important to understand this, both for you and for people reading these comments. The whole point of fingerprinting is to be able to track users without relying on cookies or IP. Changing IP does not protect against fingerprinting. I don’t want people to be mislead by your comment and think they are going to avoid tracking by just taking a better VPN.

You can read more here:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/about#browser-fingerprinting

“Browser fingerprinting” is a method of tracking web browsers by the configuration and settings information they make visible to websites, rather than traditional tracking methods such as IP addresses and unique cookies.

And you can check the source code to see there is no mention of IP address:

https://github.com/EFForg/cover-your-tracks/blob/master/fingerprint/fingerprint_helper.py

It might have a side effect but it’s still unrelated and useless for the purpose at hand.

Tails uses the Tor Browser which does a lot to minimize fingerprinting, for example by letterboxing so the screen size (one of the most unique information in my case) is rounded as to not be as unique.

https://tb-manual.torproject.org/anti-fingerprinting/

A VPN is unrelated, it changes your IP but the IP is not used to fingerprint.

But then they can know a lot more since they don’t even need to drop a cookie to track you. But that’s a different threat model.

It uses EAC and works fine on Linux.

It’s marked as running and using both EAC and faceit here, with hint that FaceIT was working on Linux support: https://areweanticheatyet.com/game/battlebit-remastered

But steamdb is more reliable and only show EAC: https://steamdb.info/app/671860/info/

It isn’t completely right either. Browsers, extensions and, only in some cases, VPNs can save you from being tracked by some. You are describing first party tracking but the point is mostly to prevent third party tracking. An adblocker and an email relay goes a long way.

I agree with the rest though. Regulation is the only way.

Just Hi-rez being Hi-rez. They have a long history of shutting down games. I’m never getting any game from them anymore.

For system wide DNS blocking you only have two options: use a DNS server with blocking (either your own with something like a piHole our a public one) or use the hosts file.

without being pwned

How do you know?

My next phone is definitely going to be a Pixel for this reason. But my current one is not even 6 years old so I’ll wait a bit.

It has some deal breaking limitations:

• No filter list that can be updated, you have to update the whole extension to update filters. This adds delay as it has to go through Google verification process, they could even refuse some updates.
• Not every type of rules are available on MV3, so it has to drop some filters.
• No CNAME-uncloacking.

While the code being open is good you still have to rely on trust.

I certainly don’t have the time to review to code of each extension I use. And even then, we have no garanties that the extension distributed through the browser stores has the same code.

You can see the issue was opened on august 18th but the responsible commit was only made on the 19th. So the code was pushed the extension users before it was made available on the repository. Open code is of no help here.

It just showed the developer is not to be trusted.

This seems sketchy : https://github.com/brookhong/Surfingkeys/issues/1796

I agree, there are a bunch of annoying limitations. But it’s better than nothing. To me the best vim based browser is qutebrowser, too bad it’s using chromium.

I don’t think it’s the same source code (uBOL vs uBO). And it’s definitely not the same logic, that’s the whole point, blocking with MV3 must be done in a declarative way.

They do kill uBlock Origin. The Lite version is a different extension.