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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury OP 25 Apr \ parent \ on: Is there a good overview of who on the internet knows what? privacy

This is such a great question... I'm going to look into how difficult it would be to put something like this together.

It would be worth just having a list of better, more specific questions than the one I asked. Your reply already gave me a lot to think about.

For instance, it jostled my memory that there was a big todo about browser fingerprinting a couple years ago. (Or rather: that's when I learned what a big deal it was.) Just knowing that there is such a thing as browser fingerprinting, and why it's nefarious, is more than I had before. I played around with an EFF site to get an intution. I'm sure there are a million things like that.

My general recommendation is to use a lot of burner accounts so that things aren't all pointing back to a single identity.

I wonder if there's a tool to help manage all these identity slivers? That might be a dumb thing that turns out to be practically very useful.

54 sats \ 0 replies \ @frostdragon 25 Apr

I wonder if there's a tool to help manage all these identity slivers?

Like anything in that space, it's going to be tough to balance security and user experience... A well organized 1password account is a great step in that direction though.