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What happens when every time your browser sends data to a tracker it makes a beep sound?

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨heyfrancis@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world⁩

https://infosec.exchange/@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net/112320308907930518

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  • teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Watching the counter on uBlock Origin skyrocket on any google or meta page is the same feeling.

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My uBlock Origin is showing 73 blocks on THIS PAGE here on lemmy.

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      • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        0 on mbin, even after playing the video.

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      • heyfrancis@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The video is a link from a mastodon instance (masto.host). So they use trackers here?

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    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mine sits at 3.5 million and this isn't even that old of a setup.

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      • UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I built this computer just under 3 months ago and I’m at 5.26M.

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    • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      theres sgould be an ublock origin plugin that beeps every time

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's like a Geiger counter for privacy.

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  • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I run uBlock origin on every device I can. I use PiHole on my home network. I’ve canceled every streaming service in favor of self-hosting, and IoT devices are blocked from the internet. Incoming connections are geoblocked. Meta is blocked at the DNS level. Suffice to say I have put a lot of effort into privacy and security.

    I still can’t get rid of Google, though, solely because of Gmail. I’ve had the same address for so many years (ever since the invite-only days), it would be an absolute nightmare to try to change it.

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    • Sanguine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Forward gmail to new provider and then use new email from now on. Eventually you’ll want to go in and update your email address for all the other sites you frequent…takes a few hours but you’ll be free.

      Did it last year and it was relatively easy.

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      • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Buy your own site and actually contrill your email. Like 20 a month and I have full control.

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    • ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, just get some email provider with a good reputation and setup gmail to forward all mail. From there you can start to change the emails in all your accounts one by one. And hey, even if takes you 5 years to complete, it’s still worth it.

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      • RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s what i did. Took me ~8 months to have everything migrated over. But it’s so worth it

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And you think it will be easier to change if you wait a few more years? :)

      Create a new account and set up email forwarding and that’s a start.

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      • corroded@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I certainly don’t think it will be easier in a few years, but I also think that after 19 years of using gmail, a few more years aren’t going to make a huge difference. It’s really kind of sad to think about how far Google has fallen. I started with gmail in 2005. At the time, Google was starting to become the “go-to” search engine. They had better results than Yahoo or AltaVista; the “do no evil” slogan was also a great “feel-good” factor. I don’t think anyone at the time expected how different things would be in 2024.

        I can host my own media on my own server. I use Nextcloud Talk for IMs (also hosted on my own server). Just about any online service can be self-hosted, except for email. I have certainly tried in the past, even hosting email on a VPS. You run into so many issues, though. Your server isn’t trusted, websites don’t recognize your domain, a whole litany of problems. Email is just one of those things that you really can’t self-host.

        Sure, I could switch to a new email provider, forward gmail, and slowly over time update my email address for everyone who’s sending to my gmail account. What happens then when my new email provider decides to start harvesting my data for profit? Email is one of those things where you can’t live without it, but you’re forced to use a service that isn’t your own and could fuck you at any time.

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    • beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This hurt to hear tbh. If there’s a solution, I hope you make it known

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    • DontMakeMoreBabies@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I just got my own domain and set my Gmail account to auto forward. Gradually moving away from using it (I was in the same boat).

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  • aniki@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did some digging – This story is two years old. Old repo is here:

    github.com/berthubert/googerteller

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    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Some of the forks have commits. It loaded in the GitHub app for me so I don’t know where you’re looking.

      Perhaps the stars, as most forks had no stars.

      What would you like as something more modern for it to do instead making an audible sound?

      I might make a fork of it if it sounds interesting.

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  • JDPoZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For some reason I imagine that scene in of one of the first few episodes of the HBO mini-series Chernobyl, when they wade into the water near the exploded reactor and their flashlights just immediately die due to the massive amount of radiation and the episode ends in darkness with the crew’s Geiger counters just going absolute ape-shit sounding like a singular continuous tone.

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    • GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would love to see a fork of this that makes it sound like a Geiger counter.
      Maybe with scale options, so it doesn’t just become a humming sound.

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      • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cursed idea

        At least in drinking games you black out, wake up, regret, wait a week and you’re ready to do it again

        Instead of being deaf

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  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Iwould love a comparison to the old web and with an ad blocker.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Seconded.

      All the ad-blockers and privacy plugins.

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  • kindenough@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    About 20% of my traffic is blocked by pihole, a netwrok wide ad blocker.

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  • dotslashme@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That sounds absolutely nothing like an old school modem

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    • Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds more like getting a text in front of speakers

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    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds more like a floppy disk drive to me.

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  • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Somehow less than I expected - but probably bc the beeps were very short duration:-).

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  • nieceandtows@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You go deaf or crazy or both

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