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narwhal ,

Better watch youtube from a piped instance.

narwhal ,

SmartTube is more optimized for TV: github.com/yuliskov/smarttube

Give it a try.

narwhal OP ,

I’ve done that. That’s the issue.

narwhal OP ,

I’m aware. So even though I have to use them, I try to limit trackings as much as I can.

narwhal OP ,

I wasn’t aware of this. Is there any way to turn it off? Thanks

narwhal OP ,

/u/Lucid5603@lemmy.dbzer0.com found the PDF:

lemmy.ml/comment/4967998

narwhal OP ,

While whether LLMs are intelligent or not is still hotly debated. I think the author’s thoughts are very interesting.

This is crazy to me. You can read in a stream of meaningless numbers (tokens) and incidentally build a reasonably accurate model of the real things those tokens represent.

The implications are vast. We may be able to translate between languages that have never had a “Rosetta Stone”. Any animals that have a true language could have it decoded. And while an LLM that’s gotten an 8 year old’s understanding of balancing assorted items isn’t that useful, an LLM that’s got a baby whale’s grasp on whale language would be revolutionary.

narwhal ,

First time hearing about it. Link for others who are also wondering what Microsoft Pluton is:

microsoft.com/…/meet-the-microsoft-pluton-process…

narwhal OP ,

The article is predicting that smartphones and movie cameras might adopt this.

narwhal OP ,

Nice. I personally prefer using this one: github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

narwhal OP ,

Some apps are hiding it behind shortened URLs. So it looks clean, but if you expand it, then oh boy.

narwhal OP ,

It’s not just browser though, sharing links from apps also generate these URLs. A lot of people then share these links through chat apps.

I do realize that most people are not aware of it, that’s why I said this is more of a rant. Just want to vent to fellow privacy minded people.

narwhal OP ,

Because I don’t expect the target audience to be here in /c/privacy

narwhal OP ,

No but that’s what the comments are for. I share if the discussion is relevant.

narwhal OP ,

Look, the point is that I’ve tried explaining it to friends and family and whoever want (and don’t want) to listen.

This post is a rant / wishful thinking as stated as being so, I’m not in the mood of explaining everything again. I’ve done that in my personal blog, etc.

narwhal OP ,

How so? This is a rant post, I’m not trying to present it differently.

narwhal OP ,

That’s an interesting idea. Although some websites/apps will have some quirks that might break the general rules.

narwhal OP ,

Then they know who’s the poster (you), they can know your username if they want to. A lot of people use the same username in many places, so unless you use different usernames in different social media, it’s still valuable data.

If not that, seeing how the content spreads through social media and analyzing the reach is interesting data by itself.

narwhal OP ,

Thanks. Looking back, maybe I should’ve at least explained about it a little more. At the time I just wanted to blow off some steam.

narwhal OP , (edited )

For android, I use this: github.com/TrianguloY/UrlChecker

For firefox, I use ublock origin and add then anti url tracking list. Adguard maintains such a list. I forgot the exact name though.

Edit: it’s this one raw.githubusercontent.com/…/filter.txt

narwhal OP ,

Try sharing Instagram post or YouTube video from the apps.

Instagram adds ‘igshid=’ . YouTube adds ‘si=’.

Try sharing the same IG or YouTube content from different accounts. The ‘igshid’, ‘si’ param value will be different

It can be used to tag who shares it, and who clicks on that specific url param.

TikTok hides a ton of such params behind shortened url. Try expanding tiktok shared urls.

narwhal OP ,

I’m aware that with most privacy issues, a lot of people have limited understanding about it. Hell, I’m probably ignorant on many other privacy issues outside of this topic.

narwhal OP ,

Because url shorteners can be used to hide affiliate links or even malicious URLs.

narwhal OP ,

If you use ublock origin, I find add-ons such as ClearURLs to be no longer necessary.

You can just add url tracking filter like this one maintained by adguard to ublock origin: raw.githubusercontent.com/…/filter.txt

narwhal OP ,

I just double checked, it should be included in the default filter list.

i.imgur.com/uKmWh0L.jpg

You just need to activate it.

narwhal OP ,

I didn’t remember it well, but after checking it again, the list is actually included in the default filter list. It just needed to be activated if it hasn’t. I don’t remember the default behavior.

i.imgur.com/uKmWh0L.jpg

narwhal ,

Just install nitter.net as web app.

narwhal ,

Maps and Photos are ok IMO. Slowly getting shittier though.

narwhal ,

For local gallery. Simple gallery is better.

But for searching your photos, Google photos is still pretty great.

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