Jay @Jay - 20d
You can judge your online privacy based on how inconvenient (or impossible) it is to log into banking mobile apps.
I literally can't use one banking app on GrapheneOS with a VPN. I just stopped using that bank. Other apps will require re-logging in and performing SMS 2FA every time, which is a pain but at least usable.
sommerfeld @sommerfeld - 20d
"Privacy" is multidimensional and weird. On one hand you are providing less data than others. OTOH, by providing significantly less, you are standing out from the crowd like a sore thumb, effectively being "unique" and thus trackable
Yeah, you can get fingerprinted for having odd privacy setups. I try to strike the balance between that and using common tools with bigger anonymity sets. The bank's problem is either that they never know if it's me or someone else when I log in, or they want to track me as much as they can even if they know it's me.
#yestr
I'm not. Everything I said applies to privacy. You can be fully anonymous and still have poor privacy if everything you do is tracked and correlated.
sommerfeld @sommerfeld - 19d
Not that much. Companies don't care about your real name to serve you ads. If bigKittyLobster93 likes gaming keyboards, he will be served gaming keyboard ads everywhere he goes, regardless if his real name is Johnny or Tommy.
