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  • AkiptoTechnology@lemmy.world•What browser is better: DuckDuckGo or Vivaldi?English
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    8 days ago

    I’m using different browsers for different use cases. LibreWolf for general day to day browsing

    Waterfox for background streams stuff where I log into accounts, its a choice not to cross contaminate these

    Mullvad Browser for everything grey area-ish

    Mull on phone with incognito icon and deleting everything on closing for day to day browsing

    Firefox Beta for logging in to accounts where closing doesn’t delete credentials

    Everything is equipped with at least ublock origin and different modes of no script ranging from default mullvad browser config, to super strict allow per side and script basis in LibreWolf

  • AkiptoGaming@lemmy.ml•Games that restore faith in the industry?
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    30 days ago

    Try rimworld! You don’t need any of the dlcs for the first couple of successful runs. Just the base game takes you to I would say 85-90% of the experience (ideology is a good upgrade for later). Side effects include, playing too long into the night, dreaming about the game during your sleep and day dreaming about it during whatever else you doing until you get back to playing.

  • AkiptoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know.
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    5 months ago

    Right, that’s what I understood. So using a VPN, a CSS will be able to identify that my phone is active, but not the content I’m accessing, or who I am accessing it from, correct?

    From my understanding your statement seems correct, but it’s also lacking a bit. Unless you also randomize your mac address (grapheneOS does this) they can still map your position and visiting times. Additionally not all of your phones data goes through the VPN, something like a phone call/SMS isn’t encrypted unless you’re using an app to make the call.

    The previous comment said VPNs do nothing against this type of attack- were they just referring to identifying your device?

    Yes, they are thinking of a VPN as a privacy tool, not strictly as a security tool as in your example. Privacy will be compromised.

  • AkiptoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•The Next Generation of Cell-Site Simulators is Here. Here’s What We Know.
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    5 months ago

    That’s not how a VPN works. A VPN masks the information you are actually accessing by showing you query the VPN instead. To make a connection to a service you still need an address. This info is what they are using to identify your device.

    Most traffic is already encrypted (httpS) so someone spying on you wouldn’t know the content of your communication only who you contact. But without a VPN a man in the Middle could see who you are contacting. E.g. looking up pornhub. With the VPN it only shows you looking up the VPN.