Notices by Luc (luc@chaos.social)

Question for everyone: What do you use to limit the tracking of "forced" apps?

- The train company sends my data to Tiktok (ticket needs to be shown in-app)
- Signal to Google
- TooGoodToGo to data brokers (can't order leftover food via their website anymore)
- etc.

How to block this?

I'm hoping for a better alternative to TrackerControl since it's buggy (legit connections hang often) and makes that I can't ever use a VPN under any circumstance, but I'm at a loss for other options

:BoostOK:

I'll either have root xor GrapheneOS, in case any suggestions depend on that. Which phone I buy depends on whether @GrapheneOS can be useful here

Btw, DNS blocking (e.g. hosts file) isn't a good option because:

- That can't be done per app, and some apps require access to Google APIs where others (like Signal) don't

- I assume many trackers will just fall back to IP addresses since it's trivial to do

@evan sorry if it came across as arguing

@evan huh, okay that's not how the word is used where I'm from! Would you interpret it as that broad a set of options in Canada? Wondering if this is just the broad definition that Wikipedia gives given that it's often misused, or if it's actually what people mean when they say this

@evan median, not average, for a start

@kolev ah I see, that's good to be aware of! Thanks

@kolev Why is Framework not in the poll? They seem like the coolest thing, supporting Linux and hardware upgrades and all that

Don't have one myself but I'm considering it once my current laptop finally dies — the cpu fan actually started to break a few weeks ago, thankfully, so probably once I have time after the holidays I'll properly look into my options and would be curious what pros and cons others experience with Framework laptops!

@evan wouldn't that be useful for people not yet on fedi, so they don't have to choose an instance because there's already one with people they know? So basically the target audience is people who aren't voting in this poll?

@GossiTheDog what's a JST? Jordan? Japan? Java?
*tries to think really hard about other geographical regions' names starting with J*

This is why I like UTC/GMT offsets...