Internal Facebook memo reveals company plan to ‘normalise’ news of data leaks after 500 million user breach

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X (Twitter)

Use some kind of script blocking addon like umatrix. This lets you outright prevent a website from forcing you to make requests to websites without your consent. Do you really want to access youtube.com when you're on reddit? Or do you just want to click through to youtube videos and have some degree of separation between the two platforms. The problem with this though is you're still going to need use a 3rd website, say one that uses recaptcha or cloudflare from time to time. And that leaks information to those services.

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YouTube

By default it blocks everything that doesn't match the domain you're visiting. So reddit.com will work but it won't allow access to other sites such as redditimages.com youtube.com or twitter.com. To enable them you click the little green/red square icon on your browsers address bar and it lists all the 3rd party sites that the site wants to load scripts from.

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Reddit

By default it blocks everything that doesn't match the domain you're visiting. So reddit.com will work but it won't allow access to other sites such as redditimages.com youtube.com or twitter.com. To enable them you click the little green/red square icon on your browsers address bar and it lists all the 3rd party sites that the site wants to load scripts from.

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Decentraleyes

One solution to this IP leakage is to use an addon like DecentralEyes that tries to refer requests for popular javascript libraries such as JQuery / React to a supposedly privacy supporting service. This one is a bit of a coin toss. Do you trust one person to not share you data about all the popular javascript services you use? One person that hoses JQuery AND React AND all the other things. Or do you want JQuery and React AND all the other services to have a little information about you. If you can trust the single source of truth then clearly that's preferable, but if they're a malicious actor then maybe there's more privacy from having your data spread around across multiple services? Also, there's the possibility that the scripts they host have call home features hidden in them meaning even though you download them from a 3rd party they've hidden some feature that allows them to contact the original host anyway. Without reviewing every line of code this is difficult to know - but with an addon like umatrix you're kind of protected from these leaks since you'd still have allow them to contact that domain.

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NordVPN CyberSec

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